Nice, but gradually darkening, Autumn weather. I haven't looked for, or seen, much wildlife lately.

Sitemeter Sez: Santa Rosa, California; Columbia Falls, Montana; Mountain View, California; Fresh Meadows, New York; Richland, Washington; San Diego, California, and Los Angeles, California.

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 -- No schlubs went home on the first show, just a rather introverted Olympic swimmer who deserved to stay. Kym Johnson did a BEAUTIFUL Argentine Tango which dragged slightly-better-than-schlub Donny Osmond to undeserved heights. Chelsea Hightower did the same for her skateboarding schlub. The talented cover girl stumbled at a critical moment. I really LIKE Nora Jones, but didn't get a charge out of the kinda-clumsy dual guitars in Come Away With Me. I thought the Michael Jackson tribute would have been better if it was more like ten minutes long -- they have some fabulous dancers, need I say. Commercial TV has some stupid limits.
I put up with some of the second show just to see who their top twenty dancers turned out to be. The way the summer season ended didn't please me at all, but I liked it until the final. Hmmm -- three dancers from the Salt Lake auditions made their final group. It WAS good to see the old Capitol Theater on TV -- heard Sinead O'Connor sing there a year or so back.

From Green Rocky Mountain Canyons:

The Pathfinder
Digital watercolor by Michael R. Evans 2009 (click to enlarge)
Dappled forest light is the real subject of this print – playing over our un-named model and surrounding foliage. She has hiked the Rocky Mountains in Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana – tirelessly investigating infinite vistas over uncounted ridges. Here she pauses to reconnoiter and investigate directions she’ll lead the small group who awaits her word.

The New Moon is upon us, and fine Autumn weather. I've been able to winterize my house now that it isn't a death-sentence on my throat to go outside.

Sitemeter Sez: Vienna, Austria and Montreal, Quebec.

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. (I got my Autumn Salon artwork in on time!)
The Flathead County Library's Big Read this year, focuing on Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, featured James W. Loewen, an author who witnessed the corrosion caused by institutional racism in Mississippi. He identified periods of time where relations between the races in Amerika were better and worse -- especially "The Nadir," between 1890 and 1940, where discrimination and outright murder were part of our country's legal code. "Jim," as he prefers to be called also touched on the books which made him famous -- like Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, but he had to catch the Amtrak that night, and his presentation was necessarily shortened.

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

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

My Own Dam' Media: Coast To Coast To Europe -- The latest chapter of the Mime Troupe Saga, featuring our 1975 stay-over at Friends Roadshow's farm in Milan, Michigan, on our way to the first Festival of Fools.
Jango Edwards wrote a response on his Face Book page about it today:

OH MY GOD...If you are really interested in how the Nouveau Clown Tribe, Salt Lake Mime Troupe, Festival of Fools and Jango Edwards and the Friends Roadshow really started they here is a taste of "The Clown Bible," The Scriptures According to Michael Evans. I love it, Mike -- you're a mother_____ for details and the drawings are priceless....don't stop my friend. You have to go to the link and hit the tab at the bottom of the page PREVIOUS PAGE until your at the beginning.
The last sentence is good advice, Stan! Are age and detail the reasons you're using the term "Clown Bible?" You know a heck of a lot more about the field than I do.

The 1975 Festival of Fools revitalized Friends Roadshow and the Amsterdam Theater Scene. (The Mime Troupe went through a VERY temporary hiatus.) By 1977 we had outclassed the stodgy Holland Festival in quality and attendance. The economics of Theatre later suffered during the Reagan/Thatcher years, but the key theatrical entities we built then endure today!