The damn temperature inversion still besets the Flathead Valley with dirty frost.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Canton, New York; La Grande, Oregon; New Delhi, India; Oakland, California; Lake Mary, Florida, and Hamilton, Montana.

Watch for 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

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: 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 has two new shows -- Seldom Seen, from the Permanent Collection, and First Nations Artists -- Contemporary / Traditional. We still have Crown of the Continent, and Ace of Diamonds. I've also delivered the first version of my Bull Head Lodge video.

Media Watch: The We Are One Concert from the Lincoln Memorial, in honor of the forthcoming inaugurations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. There were a couple of Aaron Copeland pieces, and an army sergeant sang the Star Spangled Banner; Bruce Springsteen sang The Rising, with a big choir; Mary J. Blige sang Bill Withers' Lean on Me. (I remember most of a decade ago where she predicted she'd maintain her stardom, and compared her career with Mariah Carey's -- she was correct!) Bettye Lavette and Jon Bon Jovi (surprise!) did very well with Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come. James Taylor, Jeniffer Nettles, John Legend, and two excellent background singers sang Shower The People You Love With Love; Heart-attack survivor John (Cougar) Mellencamp sang his now-classic Little Pink Houses, in his smokey voice. Queen Latifah introduced Josh Groban, Heather Headley, the Washington Gay Men's Chorus, and reminded everyone about Marian Anderson's shamefully once-controversial performance at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 with big-screen video, setting up God Save The Queen uh, no -- that OTHER song, Let Freedom Ring, which I prefer to its real title; Black-Eyed Pea Will.I.Am, jazz legend Herbie Hancock, and barnstorming foreground/background singer Sheryl Crow jammed on Bob Marley's One Love -- Will.I.Am's viral video of Yes We Can was an important component of Barak Obama's electoral success, I must say! The U.S.A's "Usher," and Colombia's own "Shakira" sang Higher Ground along with composer Stevie Wonder, who still sings as well as either of those younger professionals; (I haven't seen Garth Brooks' performance yet.) Dublin, Ireland's own U2 honored Dr. Martin Luther King with their Led Zeppelin-flavored (Pride) In The Name of Love; Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen led a half a million people bellowing out Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land -- with ALL the verses, even the depression-era 'subversive' ones! Beyonce Knowles sang America the Beautiful just fine out in front of the big ol' choir for a perfect finish.

President-Elect Barack Obama and former Heavyweight Champion of the World Muhammed Ali, who did HIS share to advance the cause of racial equality in modern society.