The ladies are still wearing their Summer clothes -- with jackets in the early AM, heavier shoes, and even occasional boots.


Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from El Cajon, California; Tullahoma, Tennessee; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Los Angeles, California (looking at Lisa Rinna's charicature, I hope it isn't her or her ol' man!); Somewhere in the U.K; Loudon, New Hampshire; Clermont, Florida; Moscow, Russia; Dublin, Ireland (Maybe Eavan?); Seoul, Korea, and Appleton, Wisconsin. Hmmm -- there's a Big Sky Blogroll that lists this site, and sends readers my way.

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

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: 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.
I am doing tech for a presentation on Forensic Science and the Shroud of Turin tomorrow at the college.

Last week I visited nearby Whitefish for its gallery stroll. I saw Donna Gans' new paintings at the Jest Gallery, and John Rawlings' sculptures there as well. I went to the Stumptown Art Studio, Two Medicine, and Sammarah galleries before I snapped this Crescent Moon on upper Central Avenue.

Media Watch: Richard Wagner sure wrote some nice melodies! Montana NPR played Lohengrin the other Saturday, which helped while I was painting walls at the art museum. The premiere in 1850 was reportedly overseen by Franz Liszt, and led to the double-edged patronage of "Mad" King Ludwig of Bavaria. The latter makes sense because of the absurd, swan-obsessed plot.

A mix of an unpublished Lohengrin poster with Placido Domingo in the role of the homicidal vassal of the Holy Vessel.