Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Jersey City, New Jersey and Key Biscayne, Florida.
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!
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: Nancy Cawdrey's American Silk Road, The Collective Caravan, and Old West -- New Visions at the Hockaday Museum of Art. Mini-thumbnails on the agenda next for the website -- I'm trying out some ideas through the haze of fever.
In The Mail: I got an envelope saying "Good News" shoved through my mail slot. I opened it up, and there was a small comic book from Chick Publications inside. WOW! I like comics, as any visitor to this blog knows. The story started out with a middle-aged American guy, like me, dropping dead. The tract ended with him being cast into a lake of fire. Very inspiring. Yeah, the senders claim that Jesus can save me from that kind of fate, but I wish he could save me from getting insulting crap like this as well.
Media Watch: Trash A-Go Go's Carrie Ann and Bruno are hosting this schitzo show called Dance Wars, along with Drew Lachet. Why schitzo? It doesn't know what it's supposed to be -- entertainment or competition. The two also sit down as judges of their own "teams," choreographed and coached by others, for sure, but who's going to really be honest in that situation? (Their critical comments about the OPPOSITE teams were remarkably fair and accurate, though.) The recap of the previous week took the first third of the whole fuckin' broadcast -- padded beyond the point of sanity. The audience of relatives and hangers-on was noisy to a fault. The dancing/singing numbers were ordinary at best, and half-baked at worst, mostly because the contestant/performers were amateurs, despite the real talent resident in many of them. They will have to learn four routines in six days during the course of this show -- maybe seasoned pros could handle that pace, but it seems to be a recipe for stress and mediocrity in this case. Perhaps the need to wash people out trumps the producers' desire to present really good performances. I guess this counts as Reality TV, but it sure is absurd.
No dancers today after all that, how about Nature for a change of pace?
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Damn right it's as cold as it looks!
Photo by ME
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