Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (See Tuesday's post) The Autumn rain continues. When will the snow begin? Don't even THINK I'm in a hurry, but it's November after all.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Athens, Greece; Dunn, North Carolina; Brooklyn, New York; and some unidentified somewhere in the UK.

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: We will get the Hockaday Museum of Art ready for Art Walk next. The college kept me hopping with their own public events all last week, but I had fun.

InSanity Clauses: National Novel Writing Month had to take a back seat at the end of this last looney week -- I am still bound to average 1667 words a day to make my goal.

Media Watch: Besides Internet Madness, I haven't really had time for other media beside my friendly FM! I am fortunate that Montana Public Radio has such high standards in music. I am recording a regular program tonight called Jonkunnu Express, which starts out with a KILLER Reggae tune by trombonist Rico Rodgrguez called Do The Reload, from an 80's LP called Jama Rico. It bears a family resemblence to Ravel's Bolero, only with a much funkier rhythm! The show features Carribean jams -- tonight Joan Richarde the DJ is playing old R&B from the islands. It was called Rock Steady at the time it was made, or SKA. Whatever you call it, it's generally sweet and soulful, with lots of group vocals and wicked syncopation.

Time Passages: Norman Mailer passed away this morning, one of Amerika's more important writers during the last half of the XX Century. I preferred the work of his late friend George Plympton a lot more, but had to admire Mailer's pugnaciousness and industriousness. Speaking of writers, I gotta get back to my November Novel!


Montana theatrical icon Myrna Loy in a movie from 1929, well before she starred in Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. She provided a posthumous endowment for the Myrna Loy Center in her hometown of Helena, Montana. This image is from an interesting site discussing movies, revues, Miss America, and related things -- Quote: Nonetheless the ephemeral does have import. In this instance, it illumines an important aspect of modern American life, the commodification of fantasy. Designing, packaging, and selling fantasy is a core component of the Consumer Ethos which came into its own in the 1920s and which continues to help define American popular culture.