Continuing beautiful Summer days, with cooling breezes all week long -- couldn't have better weather for Arts In The Park.

Fabric artist Ami Davis welcomes a customer to her booth at Arts In The Park on Saturday, July 26, 2008.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from South Dartmouth, Massachusetts; Washington, DC; Jamaica, New York; Athens, Greece; Warsaw, Poland; Lake Forest, Illinois; Saint Louis, Missouri; Victoria, British Columbia; Norwalk, Wisconsin; Andalusia, Alabama; Englewood, Ohio; Humble, Texas; Debelec, Bulgaria; Wayne, Pennsylvania; Nottingham, England (Yes, there was a Robin Hood); Enfield, Connecticut; Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran; Hanover Park, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; Cambridge, Massachusetts; El Paso, Texas; Portland, Maine; Louth, Ireland; Kugluktuk, Nunavut (Canada); Winnipeg, Manitoba; Jamaica, New York (Yo, Stozo!); Madison, Wisconsin (Mad Town USA) and Visakhapatnam, India.

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 celebrated its 40th Arts In The Park last weekend. We are still showing Rails, Trails, and A Road -- honoring the 75th Anniversary of Going To The Sun Road in Glacier National Park.
Also -- Ace Powell -- Ace of Diamonds and Native American Interpretations from our permanent collection.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: The judges saved a VERY deserving squad of dancers on America's Best Dance Crew II last week. We are thinking of seeing the tour in Portland, Oregon this Fall -- JabbaWokeeZ and Break Sk8 are featured, and I hope Status Quo from Boston are too.

I saw the low LOW LOW Brow comedy Dick on the satellite/cable -- Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams played two ridiculous characatures of teenage girls who managed to bring down Dick (Dan Hedaya) Nixon for being mean to his dog Checkers. Deep Throat referred to Dunst's stoner brother, who was caught going to a porn movie. Williams sang Olivia Newton-John's I Honestly Love You onto one of Dick's tapes, which he erased right away, probably for 18 minutes. ("A 15 year old -- they'll CRUCIFY me!).
Anyway, it was exuberant and totally goofy. The halter-top costumes at the end were a bit sexist, but the two young women looked so damn funny unfurling their banner saying YOU SUCK etc as Nixon flew away from the White House. They got "the finger" in return from the befuddled ex-president, but he was stymied and knew it.

I made these drawings of White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen (moaning) and Gerald Ford (laughing) thirty-four years ago when the REAL Dick Nixon gave his resignation speech. I was listening to the radio in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and they played Keep On Smilin' by Wet Willie afterwards. We had a heck of a barbecue later that night!

Beautiful Kirsten Dunst later became VERY famous playing the female lead in Sam Raimi's excellent Spiderman movies. What else might be going on in Comic Book Land?

Batman, Dark Knight is still riding high at the box office -- a dead actor just might get the Oscar this year for playing The Joker, and the putative hero might go to court for a domestic disturbance.