Snow in the mountains, unsettled weather in the valley, frozen %$#@! on my car every morning.

Sitemeter Sez: Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam, Holland; Lindon, Utah; Zwolle, Netherlands (uh oh -- once had in-laws near there); Honolulu, Hawaii; Thousand Oaks, California; Washington, District of Columbia; Watertown, South Dakota; Seattle, Washington; Koloa, Hawaii and NYC, New York. (Lots of JabbaWockeeZ fans.)

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

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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 is on the walls! All students are admitted FREE this year to the Hockaday Museum of Art, thanks to Pacific Steel & Recycling. Check out that free public preview party on March 27th. I'll be doing the Honors Symposium at the college with Dr. E.B. Eiselein, discussing Native American culture. (He's a member of the Assiniboine Nation -- northern "Stone Sioux," nicknamed after the way they boiled water with heated rocks.)
Check out Fall for Glacier too -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: America's Best Dance Crew's final show is next week - I'll have to tape it, since I'm working that night. They run it on tape delay anyway, throwing in special effects at certain times, which doesn't necessarily improve the show. My wish was granted in that Status Quo, the actual street group from Boston made the final two. JabbaWockeeZ did an INCREDIBLE number that ensured their appearence on the championship show. Kaba Modern had no reason to be anything but proud of themselves and their dancing, just like BreakSk8.
There is a structural problem with this show -- the final two crews had to dress and do NEW numbers during the last fifteen or so minutes. The home audience was then supposed to vote for the overall winner based on these two short, hurried dances -- very unfair to all concerned. I liked Status Quo's short piece more than JabbaWockeeZ's short piece, but I refused to vote based upon those two ultra-brief performances.

Why do I show Buckethead pictures instead of JabbaWockeeZ / Jabberwockies?


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Brian (Buckethead) Carroll is a member of the far-flung Parliament/Funkadelic Network, and my friend Bernie Worrell often accompanies him (above). Here's a fanciful Electric Ladyland type of digital collage showing Buckethead playing his mighty guitar and doing his OWN isolation dance, ala JabbaWockeeZ in the upper right corner -- he preceeded them by over a decade, though! The dance group he has inspired is strong, original, excellent, and sophisticated in every good way, and I hope they win their competition on MTV. It would be great if Buckethead was there -- he could use the exposure.