Back from vacation! Highlights included -- Beautiful British Columbia, not just a slogan; Canada Day and Black Bears at Whistler, getting to know the Olympic sites; Eccentric singer/songwriter Jonathan Richman in Vancouver B.C; The observatory on Vancouver Island; Colorful Gay Pride Parade and Concert in downtown Victoria; KRAZY -- an art show about Comics, Cartoons, Video Games, and Manga/Anime at the Vancouver Art Museum; Cirque de Soliel LIVE under canvas in Vancouver, and spectacularly, if unhappily, a suburban forest fire on the hills overlooking Spokane, Wahington, caused by a windstorm knocking power lines into trees. (More to come in future posts -- including pictures.)

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from all over the dang world by the literal hundreds -- thank you!

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: The Hockaday Museum of Art's has Rails, Trails, and A Road -- honoring the 75th Anniversary of Going To The Sun Road in Glacier National Park.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!


An artfull arranged digital mix of satellite and Flickr images showing the location of our hotel (X) and the nearby location of Cirque de Soliel and their show tents. It took about fifteen minutes to walk there. The bottom curtain will metaphorically rise when I describe some of the things I saw in a later post.