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.

Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (See Tuesday's post) It's been gray and rainy, and about 20 degrees (F) warmer in the mornings. Magpies at the collage will have to do for wildlife, if you don't count the squirrels in my neighborhood.

Sitemeter Sez: That visitor from Mozart's home town of Salzburg, Austria has been my friend Katie all the time! She's seriously on the road lately. Also: Delft, Holland; Springfield, Pennsylvania; Warsaw, Poland and San Diego, California.

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 Autumn Salon continues at the Hockaday Museum of Art. The college still keeps me hopping with public events and teleconfrences this week. Lots of video editing NEXT week!

Media Watch: InSanity Clauses -- I have passed the quarter-way point towards my 50,000 words goal in my endeavor for National Novel Writing Month. (Quit trying to make it GOOD -- keep on writing!)

The last Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was A-OK. The Rock n' Roll father and his nearly-grown son were a funny combination, neither guy was inept, but they both learned from the Fab Five, as did I over the seasons. They were a good team!


Lions prowl along the edges of a sprawling unnamed City in my November Novel Sub-Urbans.

Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (see below) Starry nights mean cold mornings, and my scraper broke -- gotta get a new one. You have to see to drive.

Sitemeter Sez: A visitor from Mozart's home town of Salzburg, Austria.

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 Autumn Salon continues at the Hockaday Museum of Art, along with Donna Gans' very witty installation of Modern paintings.

Media Watch: Trash A Go Go (AKA Dancing with the Stars) continues to blame the audience for throwing their best dancer off the show, when it was the JUDGES slamming her with lower scores than she earned and deserved. Look in the mirror, suckahs!

Theatre/Theater: My friend Katie Duck has revised her website, with the very able assistance of Cyber-pal Justin Morrison, who has also been dancing with her this Fall. The NEW Katie Duck Website boasts a bright yellow background, with lots of videos scrolling down the main page, plenty of biographica, workshop info, and damn funny poetry.
Modern Dance has close paralells to Modern Jazz -- Katie is an improvisatory master on the level of Eric Dolphy, Don Cherry, Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon et al in the realm of Movement, plus she inspires great musicians like Andy Moor, Sean Bergin, Mike Vatcher, and Michael Moore (no relation to Andy) to even greater sonic heights when she shares the stage with them. UPDATE -- Katie has posted a new two-part Magpie Music/Dance performance that is beautiful to see and hear!



A digital collage from videos you can easily see at http://katieduck.com -- BTW that's Alex Waterman on cello. See 'em in NYC at the Movement Research Improvisation Festival Workshop: November 29 thru December 1. Their performance is on December 2nd, 2007. (Justin Morrison will perform too.) www.movementresearch.org

Boycott Dancing with the Stars! (See last Monday's post.) The Autumn winds have blown most of the leaves off the trees -- a few birches are holding on, so to speak.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Cologne, Germany (The REAL St. Pauli girls work there -- in a depressing red light district); San Diego, California (I think it was Cyber-pal Justin Morrison); Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Madrid, Spain; Dublin, Ireland (Bear hugs fer ya' Eavan!); Kalispell, Montana (A student researching Jim Soular's poetry); San Francisco and Emeryville, California.

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: Our local weekly, The Flathead Beacon, quoted me in their article about the Autumn Salon at the Hockaday Museum of Art. Their print edition even showed my entry!

Here's the whole thing:


A Century of Dressing, and More of the Same
Digital collage and hand-painted watercolor by Michael Evans 2007
(Click to see a larger version.)

Media Watch: A degrading variation of Carnival of Souls (1998) by Wes Craven's production company, with only a few tangental touching points with Herk Harvey's modestly spooky original.


Saltair Pavilion, on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. I saw this once-spectacular amusement park crumble and decay as I was growing up. Herk Harvey shot part of Carnival of Souls, his now-classic B&W drive-in horror movie there in 1962. Mike Cassidy, a schoolmate of mine at the University of Utah, shot his Giant Brine Shrimp movie in the aftermath of Saltair's final fire during the summer of 1970, blaming the catastrophe on his monster -- I watched that fire myself as I was working at Kennecott Copper Corporation's railroad about three miles away, but I never saw any monsterous brine shrimp that night!