Candles for Hannukah are Dee-LIGHT-ful! The clouds are blowing away, and the temperature is dropping back to near-Zero (F!)

Sitemeter Sez: Visitor from Sarasota, Florida (Searching for that pandering hack-for-hire Chris Hitchens -- you'll read nothing but curses about that double-dealing putz here.)

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: Make a Holiday 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: STILL updating the commercial "shopping cart" web pages at the Hockaday Museum of Art -- CSS practice is fun, but that limitation on image height is challenging. Buy some gifts from the Museum Shop, so we can put it through its paces! FVCC party tonight -- but I'm working as much as I'm playing.

Media Watch: December 7th still means something in the USA -- the attack on Pearl Harbor and WWII changed our whole world. Here's what Wikipedia says about one "what if" : Several Japanese junior officers, including (Captain) Fuchida and the chief architect of the attack, Captain Minoru Genda, urged (Admiral) Nagumo to carry out a third strike in order to destroy as much of Pearl Harbor's fuel storage, maintenance, and dry dock facilities as possible. Some military historians have suggested the destruction of these oil tanks and repair facilities would have crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet far more seriously than loss of its battleships. If they had been wiped out, "serious [American] operations in the Pacific would have been postponed for more than a year."
Nagumo, however, decided to forgo a third attack in favor of withdrawal for several reasons: (given in article)
At a conference aboard Yamato the following morning, (Senior Admiral) Yamamoto initially supported Nagumo's decision to withdraw. In retrospect, however, Nagumo's decision to spare the vital dockyards, maintenance shops, and oil depots meant the U.S. could respond relatively quickly to Japanese activities in the Pacific. Yamamoto later regretted Nagumo's decision and categorically stated it had been a great mistake not to order a third strike. My take on the matter: GOOD -- our side needed a mistake on their part! The assault on Midway would have had VERY different results if the US had been unable to supply the forces necessary to exhaust and destroy the Japanese carriers when the preposterously unthinkable chance occurred. Things were desperate enough in the Pacific anyway, and the Empire damn near beat us on several occasions.

What's that line again about Something Different?



Photographer William Brooks in an extensivly-filtered digital collage (by ME) with his camera matted into a fashion photo from his website Scilux Studios (see column at left).