A Spring-like Saturday. The Canadian Geese found an old nesting box.

Sitemeter Sez: Louth, Ireland (Hi Eavan!); Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey; Jamaica, New York (Shout Out to Stozo Da' Klown!); Minneapolis, Minnesota; San Francisco, California; Okemos, Michigan and Overland Park, 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 -- 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: 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: I worked all day today at the Hockaday Museum of Art, getting ready for the Cawdrey tour and building some bookshelves.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: I took a chance and saw Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I'd enjoyed seeing a community theater production of Sondheim's grim musical almost thirty years ago. The movie wasn't as goofy or exuberant as the play I saw back then, but it worked as kind of a musical horror movie. I rather enjoyed seeing Borat/Ali G being the first to have his throat cut. Johhny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter did well in the lead roles, but their costumes and makeup were a bit overdone. The production looked like a puppet show sometimes, except when it didn't, which was a little confusing.
Before Demon Publisher Rupert Murdoch, London's Fleet Street was the center of Journalism in Britain and it's far-flung former empire, for good and bad. The Demon Barber never really existed, which helps make his gory tales fun, but the location of his myth makes one ponder the motives concerning why those stories were told.

Ida Inspires!
I got an email from an Ida Rubinstein fan in London, who is writing poetry about the High Patroness of our Blog


Ida Rubinstein circa 1910, when she first became famous as a Fatale Femme vision of Cleopatra. She took her act to theaters in London, Berlin, and even New York City!