Saturday's wedding was alright -- Autumn has gone into a time-warp where the days are cloudy, but not too cold, and the leaves are turning slowly. Big migrating Canadian Geese and small black-headed Ducks at the Slough.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Eschborn, Germany; Ile-de-France, Paris, France; Southampton, New York; Ogden, Utah (Hey Sis!); and Sacramento, California.

Remembering my friend George-O 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: The 2007 Members Only Salon at the Hockaday Museum of Art will open soon. We had a BIG response to John Houston's appearences last week -- lots of better-informed visitors taking in the Inuit Art. Senator Max Baccus will be around the FVCC campus today. He's scheduled to do a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Arts & Technology Building tomorrow too.

You only have a week to see this stuff in person!


Nesting Goose -- Serpentine Inuit carving circa 1960

Media Watch: NFL Football -- New England won without much effort -- they want to go to the Superbowl again. Poor Denver faced their mighty divisional rival San Diego with most of their own offensive team injured and out. The Chargers ate the Broncos lunch for them 41 to 3.
Forty years ago tomorrow, Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) was executed by agents of the USA and Bolivian governments in La Higuera, Bolivia. There has been a bit of to-do about him in the media lately. I will always remember the hundreds of prisoners shot down by firing squads on Prime Time TV, and the laughing, cigar-chomping Che Guevara continuing to send more to their deaths -- many for the crime of just having a job in Batista's Cuba, which required bribes and/or patronage. Many REAL criminals got away with their fortunes, while poor laborers and pencil-pushers faced the firing lines.
His picture often represents resistance to my own country's stupid imperialism now, which is cruelly ironic -- his narcissisic bloodthirstiness and stupid, bludgeoning ideology were too similar to the damn Right Wing stooges who run our government now or the Taliban or Al Quaida. I am personally disturbed that anyone takes him seriously -- at least anyone who thinks and feels. Guevara's handsome picture masks a poisonous myth. He was a Communist, and didn't believe in Hell -- I don't believe in Hell either, but I daresay Guevara would belong there for his violence against the working people of the World.


Sonofabitch won't even rest in peace -- the face of Duplicity and Death from Korda's all-too-familiar photo.