Ugh! Snowing today -- at least it's late October rather than early October.

Sitemeter Sez: Woodbridge, Virginia; Newark, Delaware; Everett, Washington; Fairbanks, Alaska; Salt Lake City, Utah; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Great Falls, Montana and Mesa, Arizona.

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.

In The Community: News and Events at Flathead Community College New website for the Hockaday Museum. The Autumn Salon reception is next Thursday. (see below)

Then and Now -- Disappearing Glaciers of Glacier National Park.

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

Media Watch: Trash A Go Go I and II The latter show had an introductory episode where their top twenty dancers showed their stuff in their own style -- very good idea. I liked the Hip-Hop piece the best, but the Coldplay dance was excellent too. Adam the movie-maker/choreographer is a positive addition to the panel of judges. (Was that Lady GaGa in the audience with all those famous choreographers?)
Ah-HA! They caught Donny Osmond hiding behind Kym Johnson's skill, after he got away with it last week on Trash A Go Go I. I still think Mya is their best contestant, but they're hitting her with the old double standard. To heck with Marathon dancing too -- it's impossible to video, and the TV audience loses out.

Now For Something Completely Different:

The male members of Friends Roadshow at Brederode Castle, North Holland 1976 -- (L to R) Sean Bergin, Dave Roe, Rick Parets, Bobby Clark, Davy Norkett, Stan Edwards, Ced Curtis, Tom Derry, Ed Baker, Ted Van Zutphen (THANKS TED), Michael Novotny, and Carl Holmer. This was an annual venue sponsored by a local psychiatric hospital/school -- my group played there the year before and Tumbleweeds from San Francisco was there a year later. All were large, somewhat contentious, groups -- come to your OWN conclusions!