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.