Another snowy day in the Flathead Valley -- been about a week of this steady stuff. I saw a whole flock of wild Turkeys near the Conrad Mansion on Woodland Drive -- each one was about twenty five pounds (10 kg) and there were well over a dozen of them.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from San Antonio, Texas; Daytona Beach, Florida; Saint Paul, Minnesota; Plano, Texas; Vienna, Virginia; Minneapolis, Minnesota (Jim Keefe, I think); Reno, Nevada; Little Falls, New Jersey and the ancient city of Muscat, on the NE tip of the Arabian Peninsula, right where the "Persian" Gulf meets the Arabian Sea. The very severe desert beyond the coastal mountains of Oman is called the "Empty Quarter." The ruins of a legendary long-lost city were discovered right at the interior edge of those mountains, after everyone searched 'way out in the dangerous Empty Quarter for years.

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!
NEW --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!

All-round cartoonist and good guy Jim Keefe wrote me to say: Enjoyed the comparison from strip to film. Fun stuff!
Put a link on the Yahoo adventure strip group as well.
Hope you get a lot of hits.
Outre Space Cinema's vistors since Jim's good words and link -- Minneapolis, Minnesota; Bombay, India; Reading, Pennsylvania; Vincennes, Ile-de-France; ?? United Kingdom; Elyria, Ohio; West Hartford, Connecticut; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Manteca, California; Clementon, New Jersey; San Diego, California; Kansas City, Missouri; High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire UK; Calabria, Italy; Jersey City, New Jersey; Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway; Boston, Massachusetts; West Bloomfield, Michigan and Oslo, Norway. THANKS AGAIN JIM!

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 opening reception at the Hockaday Museum of Art went well -- about a hundred visitors braved lousy roads to meet Nancy Cawdrey. It was a very colorful night!

Ch-ch Changes: Sir Edmund Hillary just passed away, one of the first two men to climb to the top of Mount Everest, and survive. His legacy of helping the Sherpa people of the Himalayas honors his memory more than any medals or monuments. He always shared credit with climbing partner Tenzing Norkay at the bitter end of a colonial age when indigenous people were hardly acknowledged, if at all.

Media Watch: I couldn't resist posting the following on Daily Kos, my favorite political blog --
Hlllary has gone down the mountain ...
...and will NEVER be president of the USA.
What was all that hubbub about Hillary earlier this week?
HE was over 80 years old and a native of New Zealand -- Hell, he wasn't even qualified to be president.
(What's NZ lingo for snark?)
Kos himself also posted a link to a HILARIOUS satire on The Onion's Website.

And now for my OWN Media!
Visit Cellulose to Celluloid


Flagrant Self-promotional Illustration
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Alex Raymond's version of Princess Aura and Prince Barin in 1935, about the time his fluid "middle" period" began in Flash Gordon. (Lower Right) Universal Pictures' version of our Spitfire Princess (Priscilla Lawson) and the klutzy movie Prince (Richard Alexander) in 1936. There's a copy of Raymond's collected Witch Queen sequence waiting for me at Borders Books right now. I'm kinda honor-bound to do some more comparisons between the strip and serials in the future, but they were pretty tenuous after the first effort. Wish me luck!