Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (See post from 11-06-2007) There was scattered snow around the Flathead Valley the other day, but it didn't stick -- in fact the weather got almost NICE afterwards!

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Somerset, New Jersey; Cleveland, Ohio; Windsor, California; Jamaica, New York; Valencia, Spain; Boston, Massachusetts (twice); Brooklyn, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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 Kalispell Art Walk and Christmas Stroll is shaping up at the Hockaday Museum of Art!

Media Watch: Sideshow diversions are crowding out serious issues in the electronic forum of ideas. I know it isn't anything new, but it's substituting for news -- one example is CNN's disgustingly shallow Democratic Candidates' Debate -- apparently sponsored by Clinton Campaign Inc. What happened in Las Vegas should have f***in' STAYED there! I hope those who are selected to vote in the primaries (not me or anyone I know) will vote AGAINST manipulation like this. Our bread is being stolen as these inept circuses cause the crowd to close their eyes in disgust.

Turn and face the strange ... CHANGES: One of our students passed away -- From Kalispell's Daily Inter Lake
A Kalispell man involved in a Saturday evening crash ... died Thursday from injuries suffered in the wreck. Paul Mosby, 21, was northbound on West Valley Drive in a Subaru station wagon when he ran a stop sign and collided with a Jeep Cherokee westbound on Farm to Market Road ... There is no stop sign for traffic on Farm To Market at that intersection. Mosby was not wearing a seat belt. Alcohol, drugs, or excessive speed do not appear to be factors in the crash ... There were no passengers in either vehicle.
A previously-scheduled concert tonight at Flathead Valley Community College has been re-geared to honor Paul's memory. I personally will remember him -- constantly strumming his guitar around the Student Center, wearing his black leather clothes and eccentric haircuts. He, and his friendly energy will be missed.

Theater/Theatre: Day-UM! http://katieduck.com has the following pic on Katie's biography page:


That's the late great George Kugler as "Third Base," and Katie as "Stubby" in Utah during a photo shoot in 1975-76, while they were re-forming the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe. (I was still living in England at the time.) She's crediting the pic to "Theatre-X," which is right, since it was extensively reprinted over the years in various forms before I redigitized it into THIS composition.