Cruel, miserable winter weather -- we are supposed to see relief from sub-zero (F!) temperatures before Christmas. What are those Rough Legged Hawks finding to eat along Highway 93?

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Seattle, Washington; Mount Juliet, Tennessee; Poughkeepsie, New York; Montreal, Quebec; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Teterboro, New Jersey; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Roskilde, Denmark; Greenville, South Carolina; Svendborg, Finland; Louth, Ireland (Roseanne? Rachelle? Chris?); Montreal, Quebec; Middleburg, Florida; Indianola, Iowa; Dusseldorf, Germany; Spokane, Washington; West Linn, Oregon; New Port Richey, Florida; Skopje, in Non-Greek Macedonia; Jackson Center, Ohio; Jacksonville, Florida; Farmingdale, New Jersey; Nice, on the Azure Coast of France (Near Ida Rubinstein's final home and gravesite); Burbank, California; Barneveld, Holland; El Cajon, California (again); Devon, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; Gouda, Holland (Pronounced more like "howdy," actually -- was somebody looking for cheesy pictures?); Rotterdam, Holland; Tampa, Florida; Amstelveen, Holland; Tuusula, Finland, and Barendrecht, Holland.

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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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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 the days when the state had its first major blizzard, and a literally fatal cold snap!

Media Watch: The Paul Winter Consort's Solstice Concert -- featuring the late Jim Pepper's arrangement of the Witchi Tai Toh chant/song. I not only bought the album Everything is Everything, featuring the original hit single, but also Pepper's Pow Wow a couple of years later for my (shared) art studio at the University of Utah -- he was a clean-playing, nuanced jazz saxophonist, similar to Mr. Winter, and was in the early Jazz/Rock Fusion band Free Spirits with Larry Coryell.

Bollywood on the Thames: Naina (2005) starring the beautiful Urmila Matondkar, who manages to look like a teenager through much of the film. It's another horror movie, which isn't a bad thing in itself, but the darn thing doesn't quite make it over the top. The main character is stricken with a combination of Shyamalan's Sixth Sense and Cassandra's Curse, due to an eye operation. Her final salvation is an elaborate disaster in the London "Tube," where she goes blind again. Most of the story is set in London, although everyone speaks Hindi. There was enough mystery to hold my interest for most of the movie, but there was just too much stoopid for me to recommend it to anyone else.

Oh say, can you see?

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A digital watercolor, made from one of Urmila Matondkar's famous beach photos. Bollywood sets high standards of beauty and talent for their stars. As a fan, I wish that those standards would apply to storytellers too. (Substitute "H" and "B" for an identical criticism.)