I spent an uncomfortable, muggy night with forest fire smoke greeting me in the morning, bourne by a west wind. By midday the same wind brought clouds and much-needed rain. A whole flock of rather large Ravens were checking out the campus -- normally we see them in pairs. Maybe they were migrating through.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Cincinnati, Ohio; Commack, New York; Golden, Colorado; Corona, New York; Bremerton, Washington; Sundsvall, Sweden; Goose Creek, South Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Madrid, Spain; Ramsey, New Jersey; Nieuwkoop, Holland; Farmingdale, New Jersey; Wallingford, Connecticut; San Francisco, California and Paris, Ile-de-France.

Check out 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

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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: Current shows at the Hockaday Museum of Art include Rails, Trails, and A Road -- honoring the 75th Anniversary of Going To The Sun Road in Glacier National Park, plus Ace Powell -- Ace of Diamonds and Native American Interpretations from our permanent collection.
Museums & Music -- our final Sunday of the Summer will be a party spread out between us and the other two county museums. I saw musician Andre Floyd out on the town -- he'll be playing that day over at the Central School Museum.

Media Watch: The Olympics have been generally entertaining, plus it has been easy to find coverage, unlike some other years. There's a lot of tape delay and editing with occasional live segments. Men's Beach Vollyball players don't show as much skin as woman volleyballers, but they play with equal enthusiasm. NBC was showing a close match between USA and Swiss teams, but then broke away for swimming and other sports. That's basically OK, but they were still promising to show the end of the game over an hour later -- pimping actually, and I gave up watching because I wasn't going to be held hostage until midnight just so I could see what the damn network had on tape -- their attempt at showbiz drama made me lose interest, and no, I haven't even bothered to look up who won. I only cared for a little while, and I don't care now. Ya' blew it clowns!

Relax & Attack! Relax & Attack!
A digital mash-up from photos of Women's Beach Volleyball
champs from Brazil and the USA.
Click for a slightly larger image.