March seems to have gone on vacation, but %$#@! January took its place. It has been near zero (F!) for over a week, even in the day.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Mcallen, Texas; Ward, Arkansas; Los Angeles, California; Chicopee, Massachusetts; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Kent, Ohio; Laguna Niguel, California; Black Eagle, Montana; West Liberty, Ohio; Elizabeth, New Jersey; Richardson, Texas; Somewhere in Belgium; Sunderland, Massachusetts; North Arlington, New Jersey; Pueblo Nuevo, Panama; Honolulu, Hawaii (Hi, Dave!); Quincy, Illinois; New London, Ohio, and Middlefield, Connecticut.

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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

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
MORE UPDATES! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and especially Cellulose to Celluloid, Even more Flash Gordon comparisons from 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 Seldom Seen, from the Permanent Collection, First Nations Artists -- Contemporary / Traditional, Crown of the Continent, and Ace of Diamonds. Dan Fagre's new show about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park is a true labor of love by himself and other scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and now. Things will be changing soon -- like tomorrow!

FVCC's Honors Symposium featured China’s Strategic Relations—Short Arms/Slow Legs by Brigadier General Russ Howard (retired), now teaching at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana. He outlined the strengths of China's mighty infantry-centered army, and how they still have to import the high technology needed for their air force and navy.
My thoughts -- every powerful nation needs to assess its flexibility, because time changes EVERYTHING relentlessly.

Coming Up -- March 19 — “China’s Economy — The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” presented by Dr. Terry Weidner, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, The University of Montana;
March 26 — “Communist China — The Cultural Revolution” presented by Major Kwok Chiu, United States Military Academy at West Point;
April 2 — “China Today” presented by Eric Pei, FVCC Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence; Visiting Professor, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China.

Media Watch: Ridiculous to Sublime Time -- Britney Spears is doing stunts again, which makes sense, since she's fairly successful when she does them. This time it is a song called If You Seek Amy (Say it out loud) -- the same trick was used by AC/DC thirty years ago in their song If You See Kay??

This stunt was much funnier.

Lady GaGa wore a bow made out of hair, hers or wig material, in London and Paris a few weeks ago. GaGa may run a Pop act too, but her whole thing is fun and original! NOTE: This image was digitally derived from news photos -- Lady GaGa's tresses reflects her real hairstyle, but the rest of the face and body are bloody well MADE UP! Ms. Germanotta at no time thumbed her nose at paparazzi, or anyone else. Except for the hair-knot, this is a work of artistic fantasy.

Lady GaGa in North America, Spring 2009 --

3/14/2009 Mezzanine San Francisco, CA

3/16/2009 The Showbox Seattle, WA

3/17/2009 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR

3/18/2009 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC, CAN

3/21/2009 Gothic Theatre Denver, CO, United States

3/23/2009 Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN, United States

3/24/2009 House of Blues- Chicago Chicago, IL, United States

3/24/2009 House of Blues- Chicago Chicago, IL, United States

3/25/2009 Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal Oak, MI

3/26/2009 Elements Kitchener, CAN

3/26/2009 ZuBar Burlington, CAN

3/27/2009 Bronson Centre Ottawa, CAN

3/27/2009 Tila Tequila Ottawa, CAN

3/28/2009 Metropolis Montreal, CAN

3/28/2009 Moomba Club Centropolis, CAN

3/30/2009 House of Blues Boston, MA

3/31/2009 Terminal 5 New York, NY

3/31/2009 Terminal 5 New York, NY

4/1/2009 Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA

4/2/2009 9:30 Club Washington, DC

4/2/2009 9:30 Club Washington, DC

4/3/2009 Toad's Place Richmond Richmond, VA

4/4/2009 Palm Springs Convention Center Palm Springs, CA, United States

4/6/2009 House of Blues Orlando Orlando, FL

4/7/2009 The Ritz Ybor Tampa, FL

4/8/2009 Revolution Fort Lauderdale, FL

4/9/2009 Center Stage Theatre Atlanta, GA

4/11/2009 Palm Springs Convention Center Palm Springs, CA, United States