Spring is finally here, and I'm watering my newly-mown lawn. Killdeer (Plovers) are singing all over the college.

Sitemeter Sez: Venice, California; Louth, Ireland (My mystery pal, who's always welcome); Frankfurt Am Main, Germany; Herndon, Virginia; Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

NEW Mime Troupe 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: Seldom Seen II and Larry Johnson's photos of local characters are on display at the Hockaday Museum of Art, but everything's making way for the Plein-Aire paint-off at the start of June. Dan Fagre's show is up again -- about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park, it is a true labor of love by scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and recent decades.

Last week, I ran sound for Carol Buchanan's public discussion of her historical novel God's Thunderbolt -- The Vigilantes of Montana at the community college. Here's the link to a live-blog of the event.

Ch-Ch-Changes: A Los Angeles judge gave record producer Phil Spector nineteen years to life for killing B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. He bullied people for decades with his handguns, in and out of the workplace, and it says terrible things about our society that he eventually murdered a beautiful young woman while indulging his violent power trips. One day I'll write about the positive things Spector did, but they all happened a long time ago, and I don't feel like doing it now.

Media Watch: My OWN media -- I'm putting the finishing touches on a video made from Toni Bentley's power point slides and a sound recording of her lecture at Harvard about dancer Ida Rubinstein for the 100th Anniversary of the Ballet Russes debut in Paris. If it plays without any technical problems, it goes to Toni for her feedback and eventual approval.

Ida Rubinstein, High Patroness of this Blog, as she appeared before WWI, re-creating her onstage dancing for the camera.