A whole WEEK of Mondays as we start classes at the community college!
Then and Now -- Disappearing Glaciers of Glacier National Park.

Sitemeter Sez: Salt Lake City, Utah (Brine Shrimp seeker); Rock Hill, South Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland; New Delhi, India; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Madrid, Spain; Paris, Ile-de-France; Castro Valley, California; Fort Worth, Texas, and Middletown, New Jersey.

The Mime Troupe Saga continues: 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.

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

Media Watch: I enjoyed watching the So You Think You Can Dance highlight show -- especially Chelsea Hightower's performances. She's on Trash A Go Go now, and does all-right!
%$#@! America's Got Talent is a horrible show. I should really quit watching the sunuvaburch. Pimps in cowboy hats crooning Unchained Melody, church creatures who they're afraid to cross, and worst of all, David Hasselhoff singing. The one act I liked, "Acrodunk," was voted off -- they can entertain any sports arena in the country, though. GO FOR IT GUYS!

Reconstituted Imagery

In 1975, I spent a whole day and night in Paul McCarthy's office drawing a poster for the Mime Troupe's performance at U.S.C. -- listening to Reggae classics like The Harder They Come soundtrack, and the Wailers' Burning album, which were both fairly new at the time. Natty Dread would be released about a six weeks later, and Bob Marley would be an international superstar the next year.
I've remembered the composition of this poster well enough, but lost all copies of it years ago. For the Mime Troupe saga, I decided to make this digital reconstruction, showing my blue-pencil drafting, and marks which resemble black-ink stippling by my rapidiograph pen. The poster would have looked like this at about 11 P.M. and I would have printed the completely-inked version by 10 A.M.
http://theatrex.net/theatre/mt_pt6/home02.htm