Sitemeter Sez: Surgoinsville, Tennessee; Pozzuoli, Italy, and Stafford, Virginia.
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
Many thanks to Toni -- she sent me an autographed copy of Winter Season; A Dancer's Journal (1982) for making a video of her presentation at Harvard University about Ida!
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: Arts In The Park is over for this year, and the waether was perfect! Mark Ogle's remarkable retrospective is still up 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.)
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 month, 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.
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!
Speaking of health care:
Dear Mr. President by Hunter Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 02:20:04 PM PDT from Daily Kos
Dear Mr. President: I am writing you today because I am outraged at the notion of involving government in healthcare decisions like they do in other countries. I believe healthcare decisions should be between myself and my doctor.
Well, that is not strictly true. I believe healthcare decisions should be between myself, my doctor, and my insurance company, which provides me a list of which doctors I can see, which specialists I can see, and has a strict policy outlining when I can and can't see those specialists, for what symptoms, and what tests my doctors can or cannot perform for a given set of symptoms. That seems fair, because the insurance company needs to make a profit; they're not in the business of just keeping people alive for free.
Oh, and also my employer. My employer decides what health insurance company and plans will be available to me in the first place. If I quit that job and find another, my heath insurance will be different, and I may or may not be able to see the same doctor as I had been seeing before, or receive the same treatments, or obtain the same medicines. So I believe my healthcare decisions should be between myself, the company I work for, my insurance company, and my doctor. Assuming I'm employed, which is a tough go in the current economy.
Hmm, but that's still a little simplistic. I suppose we should clarify.
More Tears and Laughter HERE
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars in Concert:
Posted by RichK (He was there, and I wasn't, but watch out for onstage monitor sound.): 25 Jul Sat, 2009 2:15 pm Dewey Beach 7/23 -- A lot went right in their 3 hour 45-minute show, but an equal part of same-ole same-ole took place as well. I pretty much stood directly under Jerome's keyboard to the right of the stage (looking out) and listened to the show primarily through through Lige, Jerome & the drummers monitors. Before I go any further - Foley is a true funkadelic and one bad mother, I can't emphasize this enough, the man is an absolute beast on the drums.
The band eased nicely into their set with a breeezy Funkentelechy. Boogie picked up a guitar to play on the opener but didn't do much with it, wandered around a little then disappeared. With Steve Boyd & Bop Gun things began to heat up. There's very little in the history of music entertainment that equals P-Funk's performance of Cosmic Slop, especially when accompanied by GC's entrance to the stage. Wedding attired Andre Foxxe appeared during Slop. Other than Maggot Brain, the show peaked early, though George's energy was pretty doggone good and he sang a lot. Much different from a year ago at the same venue when Garry pretty much lead the show as George waved to the audience for an-hour then headed for the door.
Michael Hampton wasn't on stage too much, but when he was he was gettin after it. His accompaniment for Maggot Brain was real sparse - all Kidd Funkadelic, decked out in a full-length cloak & hockey mask. Jerome's keyboard playing and an early Red Hot Mama were other highlights. Other than that it was road dogs goin thru the motions. Low points as well: "Bounce to This is" in particular drug on way too long then peetered out (how we miss Byrd). There was a young female singer who oversang an out of place blues standard that appealed to the American Idol crowd. But Kim's screeching on Knee Deep is an automatic low of lows.
By night's end I was quite happy to have been where I was. Unlike Bennie, I didn't sleep a wink during the show. I enjoyed my vanatge point as I care less and less what's going on over on the vocalists side of the stage.
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