We had a couple of real dangerous days due to rain, ice, and snow, but not so many as to constitute a disaster. Deer tracks right on the back deck overlooking the slough!

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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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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.

Media Watch: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on the Golden Globe Awards broadcast -- I'll be gawd-diddley-dammed! He introduced a minute or so of clips from Slumdog Millionaire, a movie shot on Khan's home turf in Mumbai, India by some of the same folks who gave us those dawg-assed 28 Days zombie flicks. However, Slumdog Millionaire is earning rave reviews around the world, and won Best Dramatic Film that night, along with three other awards. Good for everybody involved!
The beautiful women of Hollywood wore mermaid dresses and tail-draggers that rarely flattered their figures or general looks. Somebody somewhere keeps score on the Red Carpet, not I, except to note that model Brooke Burke, the champ of Dancing with the Stars was announcing from there.

Almost Eighty Years Ago:

This dress from 1930 would have blended-in very well at the Golden Globes of 2009.
Image from The Commodification of Fantasy