A cold wind is blowing instead of the warm wind. No wildlife sightings this last week in the neighborhood -- maybe the Turkeys are hiding until after Thanksgiving.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Ottawa, Ontario; Wallingford, Connecticut; City of London, UK (Where they have the cool Tower Bridge); Providence, Rhode Island; Vina, California; Louth, Ireland (Comment sometime -- Chris? Rachelle? Roseanne?) Newbury Park, California; Toronto, Ontario; Columbia Falls, Montana; Calhoun, Georgia; Montreal, Quebec; Rochester, New York; San Antonio, Texas; Manchester, Connecticut; Columbus, Ohio; Hyde Park, New York (Home of FDR); Cincinnati, Ohio; Gateshead, UK; Key Biscayne, Florida; Rockland, Ontario; Los Angeles, California; Canby, Oregon, and Whitefish, Montana.

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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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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 including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!


Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. 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. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art's Autumn Salon, with 116 pieces on display. We also have Crown of the Continent and Ace of Diamonds gracing our walls. Looks like another art run to Eastern Montana in mid-December.

Media Watch: I saw The Rape of Europa movie last night. There were some nice details shown of Adele Bloch-Bauer's portrait for sure (see previous posts), but what impressed me most was the filmmakers letting the insane death toll of WWII tell its own story. The tale of the Mona Lisa hiding in obscurity in the French countryside was appealing, but there was more pathos than anything in this very important film.

"The Rape of Europa" by Valentin Serov (1865-1911) -- a preliminary sketch of the famous 1910 painting, featuring fellow Russian Francophile Ida Rubinstein, High Patroness of Our Blog, going along with Zeus' bull from Phonecia to Achaean Greece. This was the time when she was La Belle of Belle Epoch Paris. Thirty years later, because of her Ashkinazi heritage, her collections of art and books were plundered by Nazi looters after she fled from France to London (via Casablanca). Since most of them were on paper, rather than paintings or sculptures, their trail has grown cold over time.