Cold and dry -- the ice stayed mostly frozen, even in the bright sunshine. The stars are out tonight, so it will be colder. Blue Jays and Flickers at the feeders.

Sitemeter Sez: New York, New York; Toulouse, France; Somewhere USA (An AOL customer) and Cincinnati, Ohio.

ROCK against Reaganomics 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 -- UPDATED!





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: All students are admitted FREE this year to the Hockaday Museum of Art, thanks to Pacific Steel & Recycling. I was doing some work there today, while it was closed, and about six student-aged kids came by to see if the place was open. Come back tomorrow!
Check out Fall for Glacier too -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: Trash A Go Go Two is Gone Gone Gone! Dance Wars just SUCKED overall.
As it was said in the book of Ecclesiastes Chapter 9, Verse 11:
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
That show never found its voice or got on the good foot. A blow by blow account of what did and didn't blow would be redundant. If the forthcoming CD from the winning team is successful, I'll post a recipe for rotisserie crow right here on my blog.
Trash A Go Go One AKA Dancing With The Stars previewed its next celebrity line-up in several framing sequences during that long two hours -- some of which were pretty funny. Kenny Mayne wore green eye makeup. Jerry Rice wore a bright red outfit. Lisa Rinna seemed to have worn a new set of lips.(Excessive body sculpting makes me shudder.)


A digitized characature of hard-working announcer and actress Lisa Rinna -- wife and mother and above-average celebrity ballroom dancer. She spends a lot of time and money to look the way she does. The more I started to exaggerate, the more this picture started looking like a portrait, so I left it as it was.