Damn Deer walked right in front of me on South Woodland -- I stopped cold, and blinked my lights to warn oncoming cars. It's trying to snow here in the Flathead Valley, but hasn't succeeded yet.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Somewhere in Greece; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Austin, Texas; Eola, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Sandviken, Sweden; Broomfield, Colorado; Odenton, Maryland; Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari, Iran; Tilburg, Holland; Seattle, Washington; Medford, New Jersey; Fort McMurray, Alberta; Torrance, California; San Rafael, California; Hamilton, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; Racine, Wisconsin; Overland Park, Kansas; Guildford, UK; Medford, Oregon; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dallas, Texas; NYC, New York; Athens, Greece; Jacksonville, Florida; Saint Cloud, Minnesota (Stayed overnight there on the upper Mississippi River); Pinckney, Michigan; Evansville, Indiana; Greenwood, South Carolina; Sochaczew, Poland; Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (feel free), and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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


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, with 116 pieces on display. We also have Crown of the Continent and Ace of Diamonds gracing our walls.

Media Watch: Trash A Go Go -- Susan Lucci's gone back to the day job she never left. I saw a lot of MUCH better break dancing than they showed on their Legends of Dance sequence when I was in Portland, Oregon last month. -- shoulda had JabbaWokeeZ on instead.

Non-Bollywood Movies: Aishwarya Rai in The Last Legion (2006) -- filmed in Tunisia, Slovokia, and Great Britain. It spun a ridiculous yarn incorporating the King Arthur legend into the mostly-unknown tale of hapless Romulus Augustus -- last person to bear the title Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Names like Vortigern and Odoacer are thrown into the mix, but historical timelines are completely ignored. Sir Ben Kingsley and Colin Frith are wasted in lead roles, and Aishwarya Rai plays a martial artist from India who slays dozens of barbarians at a time. (No -- she doesn't screen-kiss Frith, or anybody else!)
The Dark Ages can be pretty fertile fields for adventure -- Germanic general Odoacer defeated Roman rebel Orestes, and deposed his facetiously-named son (above). The Roman Senate sent the Emperor's crown and vestments to Constantinople because the German king declined the office in 476 A.D. Vortigern unwisely invited the Saxons to Britain, and died a generation before Odoacer took over Italy. (The latter was killed by Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, in the 490's.)

The Eyes Have It!

Aishwarya Rai as "Mina" in the ridiculous Last Legion. She dances and does action scenes in Bombay too, so she was convincing enough in this Low-Medieval fantasy.