It got cold again as Monday rolled around. It's a taxing Tuesday too! Spring is still marching in, and the Ospreys are pulling fish out of the slough.

Sitemeter Sez: Hyderabad, India; Bedfordshire, UK; Toronto, Ontario; Chicago, Illinois; Columbus, Ohio; Carbondale, Illinois and Barcelona, Spain.

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!





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: 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 Honors Symposium at FVCC this week is "Why Be Moral?" Dr. Dane Scott will hopefully treat it at a real, rather than a hypothetical, question.
The Hockaday Museum of Art features abstractionist George Gogas, our annual Children's Show, and local High School Art Show. The Student Art show for FVCC is going up on the walls now, but I don't have anything to do with that one.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: Trash A Go Go -- Botox Queen Donna DeDead had a tough routine and should be the next to go. Judging was harsh. Miraculous Marlee Matlin deserved a higher score, but her partner should pay attention to where she does well, and where she gets into trouble. (Clue -- keep a hold on her and maintain visual contact.) Derek's two recent hospital stays seemed to make a difference in his partner's performance. (She's new to this stuff!) Edyta and the Big Guy were better than the judges let on, so were Tracy Turnblatt and Tony. Kristi Yamaguchi still has the inside track, although Mario and Karina were right on her heels. Cheryl Burke and her Big Hunk need a breakthrough soon -- I like him, but he's not improving as fast as the other actors in this round.

UPDATE -- Botox Queen was voted off Dancing with the Stars. (Good food and exercise are kinder to one's looks than quack doctors and needles.) Ex-champ Cheryl Burke and Christiane were in the bottom two -- everybody's gotta dance up their potential from now on, if they're going to last long enough to catch Kristi. Derek's pretty partner should smile more -- she just looks better that way, and she's very trainable. I liked the Latin band, plus seeing Kym and Anna dance in the Pro Ensemble. Mr. Blunt didn't sing badly at all, but the guest-dancers were better. The Kids were alright again. If Tracy Turnblatt makes it to the finals, I wonder if John Travolta will show up to Disco-dance as her mother?


Ridiculous -- Prime Time TV ran a commercial for women's underpants which were supposedly "wedgie proof." It was funny in a vulgar, humiliating way, but was such a parody of the whole money-grubbing culture of advertising. The hypocrisy of holier-than-thou ABC/Disney is very plain to see.
If you don't believe that something this stupid exists, watch this digitized video example.

Sublime --


Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in Swing Time (1936)