Dry and warm -- cool nights, marauding deer going for flowers. I'm heading out for Utah this weekend. We visited Waterton/Glacier National Park(s) last Saturday, and got some great shots along the way:



Sitemeter Sez: Louth, Ireland (Dammit pal, COMMENT sometime -- who are you?); Erie, Colorado; Dublin, Ireland (Ahh -- that you, Eavan?); San Leandro, California; Lancaster, Massachusetts; Munich, Germany; Houston, Texas; Bombay, India (Movie person? I've sure slagged those older Bollywood films I've watched lately), and North Hampton, New Hampshire.

MORE 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: Mark Ogle's remarkable retrospective at the Hockaday Museum of Art, plus Dan Fagre and Lisa McKeon's show is on the first level -- 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.
The Hockaday Museum of Art's Face Book Site (There's a link to the conventional website there.)

A statewide "town meeting" style videoconference about the USA's health care crisis. There were many advocates from different political views, and a few ignoramuses, but the consensus was clear: No more bankruptcies or losing homes because of injury or illness!

I was running the tech for guest speaker Joseph Lisle Williams when he presented a lecture at my college about surviving a bear attack in Glacier National Park 50 years ago. Don Dayton, the ranger who shot the bear and saved the young man's life was at the event too. If you want to read more about it, his sister wrote a blog about her brother and the lecture HERE.

The other 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.

Media Watch: Actually I've been listening to a lot of music by Mongo Santamaria -- Dizzy Gillespie's great discovery from the island nation of Cuba.

My Own Media: The Mime Troupe Saga continues with a new page about the first leg of our California tour in early 1975: http://theatrex.net/theatre/mt_pt6/index.htm

A double-exposure featuring Matthew Child, George Kugler (twice), and Katie 'Duck' onstage in Southern California. Digitized and colored version of a B&W photo developed and printed by Matt Child.