Officially, Spring starts tomorrow -- the weather is cold, but appropriate for our location. Mid-day temperatures are bearable, but the wildlife are hungry because of the persistent snows.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Kaysville, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; Bozeman, Montana; Portland, Oregon; Puyallup, Washington (be there next month); Kleinmachnow, Germany; Oakland, California; Milledgeville, Georgia; Silver Spring, Maryland; Mexico City, Mexico; Eatontown, New Jersey; Bors, Sweden; Istanbul, Turkey; Marietta, Georgia; Schoorl, Holland; Houston, Texas and Ward, Arkansas.

Check out: 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!
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: Dan Fagre's show at the Hockaday Museum of Art 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 are changing rapidly -- the Auction of Miniatures is going up NOW!

FVCC's Honors Symposium tonight is China’s Economy — The Good, the Bad and the Ugly presented by Dr. Terry Weidner, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, The University of Montana;

Upcoming
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: Trash A Go Go AKA Dancing with the Stars is off to an injury-plagued start again. My faves are Gilles & Cheryl, Tony & Melissa, and Mark & Shawn. Speaking of Go Go, I LOVED the Go Go's in the 80's, but lead singer Belinda Carlisle's dancing was pretty awful, and she got to be the first one to GO! The lower half of this celebrity bunch shows very little promise -- even less than usual. There's one ugly old guy, a gawky rodeo star, and a number of very beautiful women, but not quite enough happy feet to go around. Brian Setzer's Big Band is much better than Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and plays exactly the same kind of music -- there was a good dance number accompanying them, though. Injured ex-contestant Jewel has written hundreds of original songs for herself, and a popular repertoire of dozens of quality tunes, but she performed Somewhere Over The Rainbow, which will always be associated with young Judy Garland. Many many question marks about THAT decision. I caught sight of Garland's fellow MGM inmate Mickey Rooney visibly demonstrating his approval, which was nice. Jewel did nothing to be ashamed of, but she sure missed an opportunity to show her own unique talent to a vast audience.

But a model won LAST season:

Holly Madison (no relation to Dolly Madison) is in the bottom half so far this season. This digitally-filtered portion of a recent Playboy cover, mentions her "reality" TV show, which features other models who work for that magazine too.