May the Spring continue to be this nice, and set a good example for the Summer. I saw THREE Ospreys catch fish at the slough today.

Sitemeter Sez: New York City, New York; Nearby Jamaica, New York and Izmir (Classical Smyrna), Turkey.

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: All day yesterday in the van taking Nancy Cawdrey's American Silk Road show to Anaconda, Montana for the Hockaday Museum of Art.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: Mozart's Abduction from the Sergalio on the radio while travelling -- some great arias for sopranos and contraltos, otherwise farcical, even proto-Wagnerian. Stravinsky's entire Firebird was playing tonight as I wrote this. I wonder how many people associate it with the Ballet anymore?

Sunday Open Houses: One place we visited was previously owned by a minor celebrity who dabbled in drawing and painting. I won't even HINT at her name. The house had samples of her art everywhere -- one bedroom even had a few self-portraits done in the 40's/50's Pinup style. They were pretty well drawn, but I wasn't quite prepared to see them.


There actually were professional women artists who painted themselves as pinups in Post WWII America. It wasn't exactly easy, but definitely cheaper than hiring models. Our never-to-be-named artist made her mark in a whole other field, but she also tried depicting herself in the modes of Haddon Sundblom or Alberto Vargas (above).