Real Spring weather for Earth Day 2009! We have a wind from the north, but it's warm for a change. The Ospreys (Fish Eagles) are settling into the Flathead Valley, and all over the Pacific Northwest.

Sitemeter Sez: Woking, UK; Lyon, France; Limerick, Ireland; Salem, Massachusetts; Oakland, California; Hackensack, New Jersey; Denver, Colorado; Aurora, Oregon; Rockaway, New Jersey; Louth, Ireland; Rochester, New York, and Little Neck, New York.

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.

The award-winning movie Fuel was shown to a couple of hundred people at the college for Earth Day. Public turnout was great. We had many events going on, and will have more running through Saturday.

Media Watch: I caught some of Wagner's opera Siegfried while navigating the freeways around Seattle last Saturday -- treachery upon treachery, and a singing dragon to boot! There was a duel between bass-baritones when Wotan and Albrecht argued just before Siegfried slew his monster. This scion of incest by two of Wotan's children then took the magic ring and conquered the fires surrounding Wotan's daughter, the Waulkurie Brunhilde. They made love as only tenors and sopranos can. (These squirmy fantasies say a lot about Wagner's social class and royal patrons.) Love Potion Number Nine will take Brunhilde's hero away next week, but she'll make everybody pay -- Gotterdamerung!

Fafnir the Dragon, from Fritz Lang's vision
of the Siegfried story circa 1924.