The snow was like marshmallow and oatmeal this morning -- had to fling it off my car windows, or else it stuck again if I just scraped.

Sitemeter Sez: Milan, Italy; Seattle, Washington and Kaysville, Utah.

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: The Auction of Miniatures for the Hockaday Museum will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn this year. We will have to move everything, but we are hoping the greater space will mean greater sales.
All students are admitted FREE this year to the Hockaday Museum of Art, thanks to Pacific Steel & Recycling.
Check out Fall for Glacier too -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Ch-Ch-Ch Changes: From Footsbarn Theatre's Website:
We are very sad to announce the death of Oliver Foot (1946-2008) one of the founder members of Footsbarn Theatre. Our thoughts are with his family at this sad and tragic time.
Oliver will live on through the many inititiatives that he started, with the incredible work that Orbis UK has done and will continue to do. At Footsbarn we carry on the journey that started 37 years ago in Cornwall, Oliver not only shaped the future of our company but even gave us our name. Oliver’s energy and vitality will continue with us on the road, as it will with all the other people he touched and moved.
Links to Oliver Foot's obituaries and videos HERE.


(Click to see a larger image.)
Foots Barn Theatre in 1973, posing in the field just south of the actual barn, with the Seaton Valley over the hills behind them.
Front: Davy Johnston, dog Lorrian, Tank, Maggie Watkiss (sitting) unknown, Joey Cunningham, Sarah Dunkley and Richard Worthy. Rear: Serena Henderson, Maggie Bruce, Stevie Lawrence, Simon Fraser (on bench), Keith Bruce, unknown, Angus Fox, unknown, hidden, unknown, Nancy Foot holding Jesse Foot, Oliver Foot holding Mary Rachel, Kathy, John Paul Cook, Mike Novotny.
(Some of the unknowns may be members of Richard and Foxey's band Charley and the Widebouys. Those two were later part of a group led by Davy called Touch the Earth.)
I met Davy, Joey, and John Paul again in the Summer of 2006 at Footsbarn's base in France. I was friends with Foxey, Tank, Maggie Watkiss, Richard Worthy, Stevie Lawrence, and cyber-pal Michael Novotny when I lived in England. I met Serena, Simon, and Oliver as Footsbarn toured the entire county of Cornwall. Mr. Foot no longer lived in the converted barn that bore his name at the time I was there, but he brought his young family to see our Beauty and the Beast pantomime during the winter of 1975-76 in the ancient town of Bodmin. (Listed in the 11th Century Domesday Book.) We had a full house and he was favorably impressed. It is a pity he won't be able to see the still-evolving company at the Globe Theatre in London this upcoming May.