Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (See last Monday's post.) The Autumn winds have blown most of the leaves off the trees -- a few birches are holding on, so to speak.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Cologne, Germany (The REAL St. Pauli girls work there -- in a depressing red light district); San Diego, California (I think it was Cyber-pal Justin Morrison); Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Madrid, Spain; Dublin, Ireland (Bear hugs fer ya' Eavan!); Kalispell, Montana (A student researching Jim Soular's poetry); San Francisco and Emeryville, California.

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: Our local weekly, The Flathead Beacon, quoted me in their article about the Autumn Salon at the Hockaday Museum of Art. Their print edition even showed my entry!

Here's the whole thing:


A Century of Dressing, and More of the Same
Digital collage and hand-painted watercolor by Michael Evans 2007
(Click to see a larger version.)

Media Watch: A degrading variation of Carnival of Souls (1998) by Wes Craven's production company, with only a few tangental touching points with Herk Harvey's modestly spooky original.


Saltair Pavilion, on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. I saw this once-spectacular amusement park crumble and decay as I was growing up. Herk Harvey shot part of Carnival of Souls, his now-classic B&W drive-in horror movie there in 1962. Mike Cassidy, a schoolmate of mine at the University of Utah, shot his Giant Brine Shrimp movie in the aftermath of Saltair's final fire during the summer of 1970, blaming the catastrophe on his monster -- I watched that fire myself as I was working at Kennecott Copper Corporation's railroad about three miles away, but I never saw any monsterous brine shrimp that night!