It has been a fun bomb-out drive to the West Coast, and I'm heading back to Montana in about an hour. I visited my friend, choreographer / dancer Katie Duck this weekend in Seattle -- the closest we've been in proximity for 30 years. I also shot video of stilt-walker / trick-roper Karen Quest, who was working the Puyallup Spring Fair. (pictures later)

Sitemeter Sez: Rochester, New York; Little Neck, New York; Toronto, Ontario; Frankfort, Indiana; Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; Glasgow, Scotland; Denver, Colorado; Lansing, Michigan; Pereira, Colombia; Portland, Oregon; Oakland, California; Madrid, Spain; Chicago, Illinois; Whitefish, Montana (was that YOU, Dunnigan?); Rock Hill, South Carolina; North Fort Myers, Florida; Orem, Utah (uh, oh -- I'm going to visit there this summer); Farsta, Sweden (Stockholm area); Long Beach, California.

MUCH more history 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!
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: Montana On The Move, New Artists, and The Auction of Miniatures are up NOW at the Hockaday Museum of Art.
Dan Fagre's show will come down for awhile, but will go up again in May -- it is about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park, and is a true labor of love by Fagre and other scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and recent decades.

Media Watch: A Seattle public-access channel showing dawg-assed dreadfuls in the late hours -- EXCELLENTly bad flicks like Mr. X; Gigantis the Fire Monster (sequel to Godzilla); and even Wild Women of Wongo, one of the worst of the worst -- from a sub-minor league that includes amateur filmmakers like Arch Hall Sr. and Cash Flagg. The hotel TV also showed Comic Book films like Spider Man II (pretty good), and Ultra Violet (almost good). Speaking of the latter movie, and model Milla Jovovich, I also saw pieces of Fifth Element, which made her an S-F movie star, as well as the stoopid Doom starring ex-wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who is now a genre star too.

A digital sketch of model / musician / actress Milla Jovovich in the movie Ultra Violet. (Ultra-violent, get it?) Nude images of this beautiful, ambitious, artist and mother abound on the Internet, if ya' just hafta look. She's at her best doing high-fashion and cosmetics, but I'm glad she has the sense of humor it takes to slum around the S-F/Comic Book genre. Her music isn't bad at all, either.