Rained yesterday afternoon, cleared up at sunset -- condensed into millimeter-thick frost on my car this morning.

Sitemeter Sez: New Windsor, New York; Winchester, Virginia; London, Ontario; Tel Aviv, Israel; Jamaica, New York and Saint Marys, Kansas.

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.





Many 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: Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Wrapping Cawdrey up at the Hockaday Museum of Art, transporting them to Anaconda on Saturday. Artist Monty Yellow Bird (Black Pinto Horse) was delightful at the Community College last night.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: Trash A Go Go -- Whiney Shannon Elizabeth was voted off. Cristián de la Fuente suffered a painful muscle/tendon separation in his arm. Marissa Jaret Winokur (Tracy Turnblatt) did OK, but Kristi Yamaguchi was the BEST, no matter what double standards the judges may have used. Mario and Karina Smirnoff may yet reach second place. Handsome Defensive Tackle Jason and beautiful Edyta Sliwinska looked pretty damn dumb dancing to the banal pre-Hank Williams Junior Monday Night Football theme. Day-um! This is the same network which moved that game over to one of its cable subsidiaries after trying to kill it outright with Dennis Miller.

Ch-ch-changes: Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman passed away at the ripe age of 102. Among his many accomplishments was the discovery of LSD -- a natural psychedelic which was synthesized by his employer Sandoz and helped change the world in the 1960's. I have told a few sad stories of musicians' lives that were blighted and ruined by recreational use of this drug -- the late Syd Barrett comes to mind, but MANY things can ruin people's lives. Did I gain valuable insights from my own non-clinical use of LSD? YES! Was I dangerously foolish at some times when I used it? YES! Did I quit using it? YES! (A long funkin' time ago too.) Luckily for me, I never had any ill effects which a night's sleep didn't heal. Some other people weren't so lucky.


Some FABULOUS artwork came out of the so-called Psychedelic Era -- this is a digital mash-up of a Wes Wilson poster with a model from a contemporary paperback cover.