No new snow flurries yet, but unsettled skies. There's tantalizing patches of blue, but that is the color of intense COLD this time of year. We want snow in the mountains, but our roads to be clear.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Louth, Ireland and Wolfsburg, Germany.

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: See Karen Leigh's Glacier National Park Christmas ornament at Hockaday Museum of Art's webpage. Since those lodges are closed during the winter, and they are subject to early snows, they traditionally celebrate Christmas in August at several National Park venues in the west. Karen's was made for the conventional season, and is hanging at the White House with other Park Service honorees.

Media Watch: A series about WWI on something called the Military Channel. One chapter told about the horrors of the Middle Eastern Front, where the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and eventually collapsed, despite winning many bloody battles and committing horrendous war crimes, because of insurgencies in the "holy lands" of Arabia and Palestine. I mention this nasty era of World History because we've never resolved the consequences of it, and those same resultant issues are biting our collective asses right now!
A stupid Jack Black movie (OK, is there any other kind?) with an ironically funny "pep talk" based on the twisted riff Satan is in all of us. Silly, but true, sh*t like: He's that little voice inside you that tells you to...(do many stupid things).
That WWI series was absolute proof that our species doesn't need any f*cking mythical monsters or devils prompting us to wreak hideous evil on the world.
Montana PBS is playing a John Lennon special as I write, honoring the anniversary of his cruel and useless assassination in 1980 -- lots of excellent music by many people, including Lennon himself. Here's a link to the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland. If you want to express a hope for peace, send a message!


Yoko Ono unveiled the Imagine Peace Tower near Reykjavik, Iceland, on Oct. 9 2007, what would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday. This redigitized image shows it repelling an attack by Rackham's Valkyries, as a tribute to my ancient Viking ancestors countering their brutal warlike traditions by hosting this artistic gesture.