Snowing again! The Big Sky has been pretty gray, but it's better than that minus 2 (F!) day we had when I went back to work on the second of January -- it is warmer when it storms.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Jamaica, New York (Gotta be Stozo Da' Klown); Chicago, Illinois (see below); Lodi, Wisconsin; Arequipa, Peru; Louth, Ireland (Happy New Year, Eavan!); Montreal, Quebec; Salt Lake City, Utah and Norman, Oklahoma.

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!
Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics!





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 Hockaday Museum of Art has me hopping all week!

Media Watch: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was completely ridiculous, and totally enjoyable for me. Although popular, I noticed that it kinda got slagged because one of the good guys (Orlando Bloom) suffered a dire fate at the end. Keith Richards did alright playing Johnny Depp's old man in a cameo role. Captain Jack Sparrow IS a clownish piss-take on the Rock N' Roll road warrior's public persona after all.

Now for my OWN media --
Cellulose to Celluloid -- My NEW Flash Gordon Web project, co-starring the original Princess Aura and Azura, Witch Queen of Mongo.



That visitor from Chicago was searching for my friend Lisa Verstieg (Versteeg) on the Internet -- Here's one drawing I did of her in the 1980's when she was playing her Fender Bass in the clubs at night while working at retail stores in the day, like the Blue Boutique. Click the image for a larger view, and visit the Hole In The Wall to read about her and her scene. I still contend that she was the model of the sexy shopkeeper in the movie SLC PUNK.

Happy 2008! A big Rough-Legged Hawk was circling around on New Years Eve.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from The Bronx, New York and Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. They both came in from non-blogger sites.

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 Hockaday Museum of Art opens again today. I hope that traveling show arrives, so we can get it up on the walls before next week.

Media Watch: New Years Eve Capers -- Dick Clark looked better this year than he did last, but that stroke still messed his speech up badly. All-round entertainer "Fergie" is swimming in Pop Glop too much for my tastes. She was excellent in the funkier Black Eyed Peas. Young Miley (Hannah Montana) Cyrus wouldn't win any reality show contests for singing, but she held forth at Times Square just fine -- American Idol Carrie Underwood came off more like a commodity in comparison. Speaking of which, Mariah Carey was trying to "re-brand" herself as "Mimi," but the way she was (un)dressed made her look like a candidate for Pneumonia. (Remember what happened to Puccini's Mimi? Oops, that was Tuberculosis.) Remember -- I have no complaints with nudity or near nudity, but I think there are ways of handling those touchy issues with dignity.

Watch for Cellulose to Celluloid -- My NEW Flash Gordon Web project, co-starring the original Princess Aura and Azura, Witch Queen of Mongo.


Jim Keefe deepened Azura's character and back-story while he drew Flash Gordon. Here she frustrates one of Dale's Spitfire moments, trying to spring Flash from the Witch Queen's dungeon. (Lower Left) Alex Raymond's original vision circa 1935.