Ice on the windshield time again, plus occasional cold winds -- LOOKS good outside, though. I saw the Wild Turkey family yesterday evening and the chicks are almost as big as mom.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from my home town of Salt Lake City, Utah; Bountiful, Utah (just north of my old neighborhood); Brummen, Holland; Eaton Park, Florida; Pau, France; Milton, Ontario; New York City, New York; Rome, Italy; Toronto, Ontario; Clarksville, Tennessee (famous for the Monkees' first hit); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Owings Mills, Maryland; Fredericksburg, Virginia (Is it REALLY America? Palin and McShame are total sleazeballs for trying to divide our country); Freeman, South Dakota; Line, Czech Republic, and Szczecin, Poland. We're seeing hundreds of visitors a week here -- THANKS!

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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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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 Autumn Salon is finally UP -- with 117 pieces on display. We also have Crown of the Continent and Ace of Diamonds. Ironically, I'm missing the reception tonight because I'm doing tech for a community hearing tonight at the college. Speaking of which, the Climate Change seminars have been quite well attended, and the last one is on October 28.

Media Watch: Trash A Go Go (time shifted because of my insane schedule this week) sent graceful singer Toni Braxton packing. She has heart problems, which surprised me, so maybe it was for the best. I'll surmise that her fans don't watch that show in large numbers. Lucci and Leachman are far worse dancers, but at least Cloris is funny. Derek Hough and Brooke were excellent, but Julliane Hough and her eighteen year old student were almost as good. I'm still rooting for Warren Sapp to reach the final. Maurice and Lance seem to have learning disabilities with ballroom dancing, but they did better than normal this week.

Real Books: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) didn't put me to sleep, unfortunately, since I picked it up for that purpose. I noticed that Robert Mitchum's movie, filmed in England, followed the plot much more closely than versions set in the original Los Angeles, however the plot is so ridiculous I can't blame anybody for tampering with it. There are four beguiling women in the story -- too bad they are all ridiculous too. Ex-Martha Graham dancer Richard Boone stole the show as a psychopathic trigger man.

A noir-bleu image of lovely Joan Collins. She played the English version of Chandler's lust-inducing, but hapless, grifter who somehow got involved with four nasty murders. The book's version was a blonde who skipped town with some of Phillip Marlowe's money. Collins played the role as a brunette with class, but cursed with a tragic sensuality. Mitchum's Marlowe was convincing too.