A very wet frontal system is passing over us -- rain and occasional snow. Some flakes were almost as big as my hand, but it hasn't stuck so far. Mama Deer with triplets sighted at Dry Bridge Park.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Santiago, Chile; Louth, Ireland; Salt Lake City, Utah (How're things in the old hometown?); Los Angeles, California; Winston Salem, North Carolina; Curitiba, Brazil; Hamburg, Germany; Seattle, Washington; Madrid, Spain; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Oakland, California; New Delhi, India (Yep, looking for Rani Mukerji!); Katowice, Poland and Athens, Greece.

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 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.
Voting may be affected by the dreary weather, but this is our country's most important election since 1932, and the adults HAVE to win, or our future will be bleak indeed.



Media Watch: Trash A Go Go is starting to look like General Hospital, there are so many illnesses and injuries. Brooke Burke and Derek Hough deserved their score of 30. Susan Lucci has no outstanding aptitude for dancing, plus a grueling work schedule that prevents her from improving much anyway. I'm not sure the group competition is such a good idea, but it took a little less time than a second round of partner dances.
Most of the omnipresent political ads are ridiculous, libelous, or both -- I'll be glad when those things are are GONE!
Sixty Minutes returned to its tradition of insightful reporting again for a few moments with a report about neural computer controls -- a technology which is in its infancy, but can do so much for communicating with ALS and stroke victims.

Fair & Balanced -- The Adolescents:

Political satire from 2008 over originally uncopyrighted art by Robert Crumb circa 1969.