Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (See Monday's post.) Gotta watch out in the evenings when the Deer cross between the trees on Woodland Drive, plus get up early to scrape the damn frost off my car windows.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Winston Salem, North Carolina; Ithaca, New York; Rochester, New York; Roskilde, Denmark (friends of Katie Duck) and Windsor, 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.

Media Watch: I'm either crazy, or about to lose my mind -- I signed up on November Novel Writing Month to do a 50,000 word novel. If I post less here, you'll know why.
I've been reading Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon from the 1930's -- the art, like the strip, started as an imitation of Buck Rogers, but Raymond's drawings improved greatly over a fairly short time to become one of the five best-illustrated strips of them all. Flash's stories rarely matched the visual imagination of his pictures, but ANYTHING could happen in his interplanetary playground when it was new.


Flash Gordon damn near dies visiting the ice kingdom of Frigia -- following Raymond's lead, Universal Pictures shot some fake Scandanavian/Swiss footage for the movie serial version in 1940, but without a romantic triangle or corny monsters. Flesh Gordon adapted THIS monster in the mid-70's, though!