Beautiful weather -- I wish I didn't know that Winter is coming for a LONG visit soon. Magpies and clouds of Starlings count for wildlife today.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Nieuwkoop, Holland; Los Angeles, California; Delft, Holland; Oviedo, Spain; Haarlem, Amsterdam's sister-city in Holland; and Wilmington, Delaware. (My notes on Magpie Music/Dance are attracting attention in the Netherlands.)

REAL SLC Punk, not the movie, at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue; Bodacious Princess Aura I; Hapless Aura II; The fiery Emperor Ming; The Orson Welles Rumor Debunked; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!





Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. Also check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site.

In The Community: Reception for Donna Gans and the Autumn Salon, including me, on Thursday, October 25 at the Hockaday Museum of Art! (That's tomorrow.)

Media Watch: Real Books -- A minor tome from the mid-50's featuring short biographies of scientists. It seems like almost as little is known about Dr. William Harvey than is known about his contemporary William Shakespeare. I was thinking that you could make up a fake controversey about who REALLY discovered the mechanism of blood circulation? Yeah! You could assign the credit to an obscure courtier, like they try to do to playwright Bill, except that Harvey was the personal surgeon for idiotic tyrant Charles I. An anti-Royalist riot destroyed most of his personal papers, otherwise we'd know quite a bit more about this friend of Sir Francis Bacon.
Surgeon: Hmmm -- how do I sew that head back on your body, your Majesty?
King: Fuh-getaboutit! I wasn't using it anyway. Just bury my ass and let Cromwell try to run the country.
Movie actor Jennifer Lopez was entertaining on Dancing with the Stars. The lip-synch looked phony, but her tracked-over second number suited her well -- when she really sang, she sounded good, and she had her "back" covered when she wasn't vocalizing. The Trash A Go Go pros did some fancy footwork too. Ahhh -- the power of rehearsal! I'm not really a fan, but I'm glad she has something like a private life and control of her career to a certain extent. Oh yeah, that talentless sports team owner is gone now. Except for "Cheetah Girl," the other celebrities are very hit-and-miss. The worst dancer of the remaining bunch is Marie Osmond, and I hope the dreaded Emmitt Smith fan-factor doesn't polute the voting again.


One view of an installation/painting named Still My Road by Donna Gans. The transparent photo is mounted about seven feet away from the painting on the wall. You can line them up perfectly in your OWN eyes just by visiting the Hockaday Museum between now and Christmas!