COLD -- Right around 0 degrees (F) all "F"ing day! It warmed up to about 20 degrees (F) for Art Walk last night. (see below)

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Lindon, Utah (Twice!); Jamaica, New York; Citrus Heights, California; Oakland, California; Louth, Ireland (Again!) and Brooklyn, New York.

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: Kalispell Art Walk and Christmas Stroll at the Hockaday Museum of Art was nice -- over 400 people braved bitter cold to visit us and other locations around town. The chestnuts were warm and sweet, and the Director's husband did all the roasting over a flaring finned barbeque which was THE BOMB, or was a bomb at one time. The lights all worked well, and YES, we had cookies -- LOTS of cookies.

InSanity Clauses: November Novel Writing Month declared me a WINNER!


I achieved BULK, but missed coherence -- My version of Near-Future Big Oil and the Ultra Extraction Process which sustained their worldwide City triggered a massive cataclysm in the Middle East which devastated the Black Sea, Tigris/Euphrates Valley, and obliterated Jerusalem, along with the Upper Great Rift Valley. The Sultan of former Brunei was lucky enough to take steps which saved the remote park of Wallasea from drowning when the *hinges of the world* turned. The engineer who guided the Sultan sacrificed himself for Wallasea's sake. BushCo in the Caribbean Gulf was watching helplessly as Earth's geologic revenge destroyed their wealth and power via Dyastrophysical Resonance more slowly and surely, as was NeoBenin in the Niger Delta. A brave investigator in ex-London and his international research staff prevented worse loss of life by revealing the murdered engineer's research to the wide world, while solving the related murder-by-lion of Big Oil's double-dealing agent.
Control Group A, on bicycles in Africa's Great Rift Valley, proved that even active geologic areas will endure if left undisturbed by Ultra Extraction -- they also discovered another relative of Leaky's Lucy, and named him Leaky's Desi.
Thanks to my co-authors Joseph Conrad, Anthony Burgess, Robert Anton Wilson, *R. A. Lafferty*, the authors of Genesis, Gilgamesh, Wikipedia, and the SubGenius Mythos.

Media Watch: Eric Clapton's Crossroads Concert in Chicago was the best of the lot so far -- Guitarists young and old, country, traditional blues, jazz, rock et cetera!


Jeff Beck was masterful as usual, plus he stood aside while a young Australian woman named Tal Wilkenfeld played a bass solo -- a remarkably unusual event for my favorite amongst all the great British electric guitarists.