Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (See post from 11-06-2007) The softest most beautiful morning you can imagine today -- real Autumn. A hunter's backpack saved his life when he tried to run from a Mountain Lion in the Swan Valley near here this week. The noise of his handgun scared it away while his backback was getting clawed to ribbons -- he's lucky he didn't shoot himself in his panic. I'm glad he wasn't seriously hurt, but I'm afraid that the authorities are going to track the dumb brute down now, or be pressured to do it.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Chicago, Illinois; Chiavari, Italy; Arlington, Virginia; and Montreal, Canada.

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: The Art Walk is coming to the Hockaday Museum of Art, and we've got a bunch of ambitious ideas -- we'd also like to sell some ceramics, and make a few bucks on those cool wreaths by local artists. Tis' the season!

InSanity Clauses: Me and my fellow asylum-mates from National Novel Writing Month are having a get-together at Borders Books tonight.

Media Watch: I was reading R.A. Lafferty and Robert Anton Wilson last night -- Sci-Fi with HUMOR. I'm going to try and channel their savoir faire in my November Novel, plus borrow some structure from John Wyndham and Phillip K. Dick.



High Patroness of this blog, Ida Rubinstein, with Vaslav Nijinsky in their intensely sexual pas de deux from Scheherazade for the Ballet Russes in 1910. After scaring Serge Diaghilev half to death with her pet leopard, and his calling the cops on her in retaliation, she left the company. Those facts may be related, but maybe not. Nijinsky left the Ballet Russes as soon as he was able to get away also. His sister later became Ida's main choreographer.