It has snowed almost constantly this week -- once for about 36 hours straight. I was greeted by a Deer at the Conrad Mansion last night, watching the Christmas lights.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Las Vegas, Nevada (snowing there as well); Tacoma, Washington; Northwich, UK; Carle Place, New York; Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania; Waelder, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Rome, Italy; Clarksville, Tennessee; Chicago, Illinois (NO! I have nothing to do with that governor); Englewood, Colorado; Marietta, Georgia; Littleton, Colorado; Damascus, Syria; Tucson, Arizona; Houston, Texas; La Mirada, California; Farmington, Michigan; Huntingtown, Maryland; Baltimore, Maryland; Jacksonville, Florida (That you George or Stephanie Clinton?); Kansas City, Missouri; Charlotte, North Carolina; Bogota, Colombia; New York, New York; Brooklyn, New York; Phoenix, Arizona and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Many many searches for Lisa Rinna, since her cosmetic surgery seems to be a media item (shudder) -- I have an exaggerated caricature of that hard-working lady posted online from awhile back.

New revisions 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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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 finishes up THIS WEEK. We will likely change Crown of the Continent a little, and continue Ace of Diamonds. The art run to Eastern Montana in December is finally set -- I was originally scheduled to go on days when the state had its first winter blizzard, and a literally fatal cold snap!

Media Watch: Parineeta (2005) by director Pradeep Sarkar, starring the ever-charismatic Sanjay Dutt in a fairly restrained role, Saif Ali Khan as a total nerd who EARNS his share of acute emotional distress, and beautiful Vidya Balan as the severely put-upon good-hearted ingenue. It is set in Calcutta for a change, and there is also an odd nightclub scene featuring a retro-Pop tune sung by the famous entertainer Rekha (Bhanurekha).

Nightclub Rekha, in a digitally-altered clip from Parineeta. She also played the ghost of the murdered woman who took over Urmilla's body to wreak her vengeance in Bhoot -- there's a couple of Bollywood bhooties for you!