It's been over a week since I made any entries -- here we go with today!
Weather: Clear and cold -- no Arctic Blast, but temperature in the low 20's (F). The Sun is a welcome sight!
Wildlife: The eagles are still haunting the pond in Middle Foy's Lake -- we haven't seen them eat anything from the water though. Our hanging feeders are very active with Magpies, Flickers, Finches, Chickadees, Hairy Woodpeckers, and Downey Woodpeckers. Pheasants are eating the food on the ground, and the deer family is welcome to whatever's left!
Charity Alert: The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free
At the College: I recently did two late-afternoon lecture sessions where I taught the video students various aspects of the Kron Video Editor. I was able to hook up our editing suite into a data projector and have all 17 students "look over my shoulder" on the screen at the front of the room. Today I'm checking out three sets of cameras, after making sure the students know how to use them.
Media Alert: I'm reading And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ.
I recorded the Grammy Awards to be sure I got my friends and aquaintances who performed there on tape. Who were they? Greg Boyer and Maceo Parker were behind Prince and Beyonce. Bernie Worrell was right up front (sans keyboards) with George Clinton. Other members of the P-Funk who I've met are Mike Hampton, Lige Curry, Skeet Curtis (now playing with Maceo's own band), Billy Nelson, Bennie Cowan, Robert Johnson, Greg Thomas, Clip Payne, Paul Hill, Eric McFadden, Belita Woods, Sheila Horne, Carlos McMurray, Steve Boyd, LaShonda Clinton, Frankie Waddy, Ron Wright, Cordell Mosson, Gary Shider and Garrett Shider, DeWayne McKnight, and some of their wonderful crew members -- Chuck, Citrus, Doc, Jeff Fogarty, and Derrick Drisdale. I'm a card-carrying member of Bootsy Collins' fan club, but I've never met him -- he was front and center with his Starburst Mutron Bass. George Clinton.com
Oh yeah -- they were part of an 11 minute medley with OutKast, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, and Earth, Wind & Fire. Samuel L. Jackson acted as a preacher to hold the whole thing together.
Gina Hall, one of their publicists, is an ole cyber-pal of mine, and gave me plenty of warning that the Funk Mob would be on TV. P Funk News Across One Nation
It was an ambitious show-within-a-show, and seems to have been well-received.
What else I liked: White Stripes, Christina Aguliera's song, the Black Eyed Peas (even sorry-azzed J. Timberlake was good in this number!), and seeing presenter Ozzy Osbourne without the involuntary shakes. Some other musically good numbers were marred by bad decisions, some other numbers just weren't good.
Last night we saw Killer Klowns From Outer Space -- nice flick -- a humorous horror movie without pretentions.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Weather: Cold with high, whispy clouds -- it sure is nice to see a sunrise, though!
Wildlife: Those damn cats gotta stop bringing in dead birds -- leave 'em outside for the Magpies!
I have to watch out about the deer hanging around day and night. The neighbors are afraid of Mountain Lions following them from out of the forest.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Alert: OK, Janet Jackson's admitted that her stunt was planned. At least one person isn't lying anymore. I hope the FCC just leaves that dumb debacle in the past, but I can't expect it. The football game on Superbowl Sunday has been relegated to third in importance behind halftime, during which I did my laundry, and the commercials, which I intentionally skipped this year.
Ridley Scott's Gladiator was run in "prime time" on ABC. Day-um! What a violent show!
Today's spectacle entertainment may be silly at worst, but the Roman arena was demented. We still have bullfighting, sad to say, but wholesale death and dismemberment are thankfully illegal. (Movies and Video Games aren't real, remember?)
Russell Crowe earned the Academy Award, and gave the BEST speech I've ever heard from an an actor when he accepted his Oscar.
Reasonably good fan site: Maximum Russell Crowe
Scott sometimes has a social message in his films -- Blade Runner and Thelma and Louise for instance, but if there is one here, it's hidden -- unless the message is "Life sucked in ancient times too."
Here's one fairly-informative site: Ridley Scott @ Filmbug
The movie is set in the reign of Commodus, generally acknowledged as the start of the Decline of the Roman Empire: The Roman Empire
Here's some paraphrased quotes: Like Nero, Emperor Commodus' private life was a disgrace and his public extravagances outageous; like Nero, he fancied himself in the circus; and like Nero, he died an undignified death - a professional athlete was hired to strangle him in his bed in AD 192.
177 Marcus Aurelius makes Commodus co-emperor; 180 Death of Marcus Aurelius. Accession of Commodus, who retreats to Rome from Germany; 183 Plot to kill Commodus discovered. Power of favourite Perennis. 186 Fall of Perennis. Power of favourite Cleander; 189 Fall of Cleander; 192 Death of Commodus.
The previous 84 years had seen just five emperors; during the next 104 years Rome should endure no less than 29.
My take on this historical matter -- the people of the Mediterranian were so impoverished then by 200 years of Roman thievery, that repeated warfare and treachery among the ruling class went unchallenged, and doomed this civilization to collapse. I'm amazed that it took another 150 years, plus generations of repeated Barbarian invasions to really kill the empire in Western Europe. After Eastern Emperor Justinian's few victories in the mid-Sixth Century, there wasn't much left to fight over, and the Lombards just came to stay.
That was just a rough sketch of the facts -- Ridley Scott's Movie Empire is an English Empire, stocked with English actors -- Derek (I Claudius) Jacobi is even in the film! The plot is ridiculously untrue, but his sketch of 2nd Century Rome has verisimilitude. I don't think anyone today could present the real horrors of the Colosseum, and I hope nobody tries.
A psychologist might write something about the fascination with perversion and violence that drenches almost every Roman movie -- or why the written record seems to dote on these themes as well, but not I.
Follow Up:
Al Kooper answered my email in less than a day (See Feb. 2)--
Thanks for your kind words & support
Its what keeps the old man goin'
al kooper
Check out his website: AL KOOPER
He's a good prose writer. His mini-diaries and commentaries are very well done, and convey the unique insight of a musician with humor and clarity. You can also catch up with the 40 year career of one of American Pop Music's more important studio men without my irrelevant input.
He also turned 60, and did a concert at the Berklee School of Music on January 31!
Wildlife: Those damn cats gotta stop bringing in dead birds -- leave 'em outside for the Magpies!
I have to watch out about the deer hanging around day and night. The neighbors are afraid of Mountain Lions following them from out of the forest.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Alert: OK, Janet Jackson's admitted that her stunt was planned. At least one person isn't lying anymore. I hope the FCC just leaves that dumb debacle in the past, but I can't expect it. The football game on Superbowl Sunday has been relegated to third in importance behind halftime, during which I did my laundry, and the commercials, which I intentionally skipped this year.
Ridley Scott's Gladiator was run in "prime time" on ABC. Day-um! What a violent show!
Today's spectacle entertainment may be silly at worst, but the Roman arena was demented. We still have bullfighting, sad to say, but wholesale death and dismemberment are thankfully illegal. (Movies and Video Games aren't real, remember?)
Russell Crowe earned the Academy Award, and gave the BEST speech I've ever heard from an an actor when he accepted his Oscar.
Reasonably good fan site: Maximum Russell Crowe
Scott sometimes has a social message in his films -- Blade Runner and Thelma and Louise for instance, but if there is one here, it's hidden -- unless the message is "Life sucked in ancient times too."
Here's one fairly-informative site: Ridley Scott @ Filmbug
The movie is set in the reign of Commodus, generally acknowledged as the start of the Decline of the Roman Empire: The Roman Empire
Here's some paraphrased quotes: Like Nero, Emperor Commodus' private life was a disgrace and his public extravagances outageous; like Nero, he fancied himself in the circus; and like Nero, he died an undignified death - a professional athlete was hired to strangle him in his bed in AD 192.
177 Marcus Aurelius makes Commodus co-emperor; 180 Death of Marcus Aurelius. Accession of Commodus, who retreats to Rome from Germany; 183 Plot to kill Commodus discovered. Power of favourite Perennis. 186 Fall of Perennis. Power of favourite Cleander; 189 Fall of Cleander; 192 Death of Commodus.
The previous 84 years had seen just five emperors; during the next 104 years Rome should endure no less than 29.
My take on this historical matter -- the people of the Mediterranian were so impoverished then by 200 years of Roman thievery, that repeated warfare and treachery among the ruling class went unchallenged, and doomed this civilization to collapse. I'm amazed that it took another 150 years, plus generations of repeated Barbarian invasions to really kill the empire in Western Europe. After Eastern Emperor Justinian's few victories in the mid-Sixth Century, there wasn't much left to fight over, and the Lombards just came to stay.
That was just a rough sketch of the facts -- Ridley Scott's Movie Empire is an English Empire, stocked with English actors -- Derek (I Claudius) Jacobi is even in the film! The plot is ridiculously untrue, but his sketch of 2nd Century Rome has verisimilitude. I don't think anyone today could present the real horrors of the Colosseum, and I hope nobody tries.
A psychologist might write something about the fascination with perversion and violence that drenches almost every Roman movie -- or why the written record seems to dote on these themes as well, but not I.
Follow Up:
Al Kooper answered my email in less than a day (See Feb. 2)--
Thanks for your kind words & support
Its what keeps the old man goin'
al kooper
Check out his website: AL KOOPER
He's a good prose writer. His mini-diaries and commentaries are very well done, and convey the unique insight of a musician with humor and clarity. You can also catch up with the 40 year career of one of American Pop Music's more important studio men without my irrelevant input.
He also turned 60, and did a concert at the Berklee School of Music on January 31!
Monday, February 02, 2004
Weather: A sprinkling of snow. It's also a lot colder than yesterday. I wanted to wash/wax the car on Sunday, but the commercial, automated place was closed! ($#@!)
Wildlife: The two eagles had to share the aereation pond with ice fishermen nearby -- I think the birds ate the cleanings afterward.
Charity Alert: The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free
Media Alert: I managed to get through most of the Superbowl while switching to CSPAN during the commercials. It was actually worth the effort -- Oliver Sacks was speaking on Book TV. I enjoyed the game VERY much, and spoke to my brother via long-distance before and afterward. Score: New England -- 32 Carolina -- 29.
The halftime show just confirmed general preconceptions -- popular artists strutted their lip-synched stuff in an audio/visual cacophany. If ya' liked 'em, ya' liked the show, if ya' didn't, ya' didn't. With that being said -- I was liking Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation," until Justin Timberlake showed up. He's danced better in the past, and I've never liked his singing anyway.
BUSTED: That final grab at Janet's boob-cover was obviously planned. Neither leather, vinyl, nor spandex tears away that easy. Women entertainers don't wear nipple-covers* unless they expect their breasts to show either. BTW -- that incident barely lasted a second -- If you could see it* you were replaying it on slo-mo or pause --- HA HA HA!
Follow-ups:
I wrote a "fan letter" by email to Al Kooper last night, since I've been enjoying his Michael Bloomfield collaborations on CD. (See Jan. 26, 2004) While tracking him down online, I found that he has serious vision problems now, but he's perseveres through them -- good man! AL KOOPER
I found a list of the studio musicians who played on the Box Tops' records. (The Box Tops road band is listed on the Alex Chilton page -- See Jan. 30, 2004) They are: Reggie Young, guitar; Bobby Wood, piano; Bobby Emmons, organ; Tommy Cogbill, bass; Gene Crissman, drums; Mike Leech and Glen Spreen, horn and string arrangements, and the great Wayne Jackson, with his Memphis Horns. Wayne Carson Thompson wrote their biggest songs, Penn and Oldham wrote some other singles. Tommy Cogbill co-produced Dimensions, their best album.
Wildlife: The two eagles had to share the aereation pond with ice fishermen nearby -- I think the birds ate the cleanings afterward.
Charity Alert: The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free
Media Alert: I managed to get through most of the Superbowl while switching to CSPAN during the commercials. It was actually worth the effort -- Oliver Sacks was speaking on Book TV. I enjoyed the game VERY much, and spoke to my brother via long-distance before and afterward. Score: New England -- 32 Carolina -- 29.
The halftime show just confirmed general preconceptions -- popular artists strutted their lip-synched stuff in an audio/visual cacophany. If ya' liked 'em, ya' liked the show, if ya' didn't, ya' didn't. With that being said -- I was liking Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation," until Justin Timberlake showed up. He's danced better in the past, and I've never liked his singing anyway.
BUSTED: That final grab at Janet's boob-cover was obviously planned. Neither leather, vinyl, nor spandex tears away that easy. Women entertainers don't wear nipple-covers* unless they expect their breasts to show either. BTW -- that incident barely lasted a second -- If you could see it* you were replaying it on slo-mo or pause --- HA HA HA!
Follow-ups:
I wrote a "fan letter" by email to Al Kooper last night, since I've been enjoying his Michael Bloomfield collaborations on CD. (See Jan. 26, 2004) While tracking him down online, I found that he has serious vision problems now, but he's perseveres through them -- good man! AL KOOPER
I found a list of the studio musicians who played on the Box Tops' records. (The Box Tops road band is listed on the Alex Chilton page -- See Jan. 30, 2004) They are: Reggie Young, guitar; Bobby Wood, piano; Bobby Emmons, organ; Tommy Cogbill, bass; Gene Crissman, drums; Mike Leech and Glen Spreen, horn and string arrangements, and the great Wayne Jackson, with his Memphis Horns. Wayne Carson Thompson wrote their biggest songs, Penn and Oldham wrote some other singles. Tommy Cogbill co-produced Dimensions, their best album.
Friday, January 30, 2004
Weather: The thaw continues -- rain on top of ice, and melting snowpack. My eaves are clear of ice where I used the commercial melting mush, so that water doesn't back up behind "ice dams" and drain into our house.
Wildlife: The deer family was bedded down around the bird feeder this morning.
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
At the College: Digitizing some overhead transparencies to go onto CDs later today. Those data projectors are getting used! Hmmm -- Will I have to make them all into Power Point slides? Maybe so -- some photo display software packages are no damn good, and each display computer is configured differently. They all have Power Point, though.
Might as well write about "Global Friends" later today -- we have a young lady from Kenya (Kikuyu nationality), and a lady even older than I, who has been around Guatemamla and Chiapas a lot lately. Last time we talked about languages and odd specific sounds that aren't used in English. LATER IS NOW: Prof. Gerda Reeb told about her life growing up in the grim Soviet satellite nation of Romania, especially under the kleptomaniac rule of Charcesceau (sp?). She told how her family was ransomed by relatives and the West German government, after waiting 21 years, by the additional bribe of a remote-controlled TV set to a bureaucrat in 1986. After a few years in Europe, she chose to attend college in Eugene, Oregon -- luckily one of the most accepting, easy-to-live communities in the whole USA.
We talked about how repression and corruption attacked the souls of societies, and heard examples from Chiapas, and Kenya. On a positive note, we spoke of a spring fair and a website devoted to regional arts before adjourning.
Gerda also mentioned hearing English for the first time via TV shows like Dallas and Dynasty. Sharon grew up using Kikuyu in her neighborhood, English in school, and Swahili in big cites like Nairobi.
Media Watch: I was a lazy slug last night -- no reading, snoozed completely thru the NPR news, and watched some televised drek called "Awesomely Bad Videos" on VH1. It was a string of catty C-list comedians beating up on the folks who star in those kind of unfortunate, misbegotten productions -- which might be fair if the celebrities mentioned had any control, but often they don't -- that's a whole other subject, though. The mean-spirited syndicated series' "Behind the Music that Sucks" and "Videos that Suck" are actually funnier that the VH1 show.
Football: Super Bowl this Sunday! I'm "betting" on New England, but I'm always hoping for a well-played, close game.
I don't give a rat's ass about the commercials -- $4.6 Million per minute is obscene. I'm going to write to CBS and tell them that I'm planning to change channels at every commercial on purpose -- people with that kind of money don't need any of mine! (NOTE: I did write and tell them.)
Car Stereo: (Here's a new subject) Best of the Box Tops -- bought it on tape for a buck, and am enjoying almost every track. It's late-60's pop-rock with a soulful edge, courtesy of producers Chips Moman, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and singer Alex Chilton, who was only 16 years old when The Letter was recorded. My favorites are Soul Deep, and Neon Rainbow. I wish Midnight Angel was in this collection. It's also sad that Chilton and his bandmates got almost no money and little respect for their fine work -- they COULD play up to the standards of the fine Memphis studio musicians who did the backgrounds on these records.
Here's one telling of Chilton's story:
Alex Chilton: A brief history of rock and roll's influential "high priest"
Wildlife: The deer family was bedded down around the bird feeder this morning.
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
At the College: Digitizing some overhead transparencies to go onto CDs later today. Those data projectors are getting used! Hmmm -- Will I have to make them all into Power Point slides? Maybe so -- some photo display software packages are no damn good, and each display computer is configured differently. They all have Power Point, though.
Might as well write about "Global Friends" later today -- we have a young lady from Kenya (Kikuyu nationality), and a lady even older than I, who has been around Guatemamla and Chiapas a lot lately. Last time we talked about languages and odd specific sounds that aren't used in English. LATER IS NOW: Prof. Gerda Reeb told about her life growing up in the grim Soviet satellite nation of Romania, especially under the kleptomaniac rule of Charcesceau (sp?). She told how her family was ransomed by relatives and the West German government, after waiting 21 years, by the additional bribe of a remote-controlled TV set to a bureaucrat in 1986. After a few years in Europe, she chose to attend college in Eugene, Oregon -- luckily one of the most accepting, easy-to-live communities in the whole USA.
We talked about how repression and corruption attacked the souls of societies, and heard examples from Chiapas, and Kenya. On a positive note, we spoke of a spring fair and a website devoted to regional arts before adjourning.
Gerda also mentioned hearing English for the first time via TV shows like Dallas and Dynasty. Sharon grew up using Kikuyu in her neighborhood, English in school, and Swahili in big cites like Nairobi.
Media Watch: I was a lazy slug last night -- no reading, snoozed completely thru the NPR news, and watched some televised drek called "Awesomely Bad Videos" on VH1. It was a string of catty C-list comedians beating up on the folks who star in those kind of unfortunate, misbegotten productions -- which might be fair if the celebrities mentioned had any control, but often they don't -- that's a whole other subject, though. The mean-spirited syndicated series' "Behind the Music that Sucks" and "Videos that Suck" are actually funnier that the VH1 show.
Football: Super Bowl this Sunday! I'm "betting" on New England, but I'm always hoping for a well-played, close game.
I don't give a rat's ass about the commercials -- $4.6 Million per minute is obscene. I'm going to write to CBS and tell them that I'm planning to change channels at every commercial on purpose -- people with that kind of money don't need any of mine! (NOTE: I did write and tell them.)
Car Stereo: (Here's a new subject) Best of the Box Tops -- bought it on tape for a buck, and am enjoying almost every track. It's late-60's pop-rock with a soulful edge, courtesy of producers Chips Moman, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and singer Alex Chilton, who was only 16 years old when The Letter was recorded. My favorites are Soul Deep, and Neon Rainbow. I wish Midnight Angel was in this collection. It's also sad that Chilton and his bandmates got almost no money and little respect for their fine work -- they COULD play up to the standards of the fine Memphis studio musicians who did the backgrounds on these records.
Here's one telling of Chilton's story:
Alex Chilton: A brief history of rock and roll's influential "high priest"
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Weather: RAIN! On top of lotsa snow -- get home early and STAY there before the roads freeze tonight.
BTW --- the snowpack is still below average -- so sayeth the Weather Bureau. Rain isn't going to help, unless it stays snowy in the upper altitudes.
Wildlife: The deer scrounge day and night. The two eagles frequent the open water, but I haven't seen them catch anything yet.
Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
At the College: Power Point use is more and more frequent. We are hustling data projectors around on wheeled carts, and also installing them in classrooms. Many visitors are bringing their own, and one of these broke down last night -- luckily we had a spare! Data projectors are also fairly good for showing movies on larger screens -- just run a video output from the in-class VCR/DVD player into the projector, select Video One, and ya' gotta show! Prof. Gerda Reeb showed Himalaya last night for the Intercultural Club (Global Friends) by using this method.
Here's some info about the flick:
HIMALAYA, a film by Eric Valli
Media Watch: FVCC Current Events didn't show on Cable Channel Nine today -- maybe tomorrow. Carolyn G. Heilbrun's collection of essays: HAMLET'S MOTHER AND OTHER WOMEN is really fine. Thanks Prof. Kabler!
I snoozed during NPR news, and saw a little of political comedian Bill Maher on Larry King (ruefully laughing a bit) before I started reading. One story Heilbrun alluded to was Sylvia Beach's publishing of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Want a virtual tour of her bookstore, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris?:
Shakespeare and Company - Virtual Tour by Robert Jeantet
How about hearing the voice of Virgina Woolf? One essay by Heilbrun compared her works with those of James Joyce.
The Hours - Virginia Woolf - at CTF
BTW --- the snowpack is still below average -- so sayeth the Weather Bureau. Rain isn't going to help, unless it stays snowy in the upper altitudes.
Wildlife: The deer scrounge day and night. The two eagles frequent the open water, but I haven't seen them catch anything yet.
Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
At the College: Power Point use is more and more frequent. We are hustling data projectors around on wheeled carts, and also installing them in classrooms. Many visitors are bringing their own, and one of these broke down last night -- luckily we had a spare! Data projectors are also fairly good for showing movies on larger screens -- just run a video output from the in-class VCR/DVD player into the projector, select Video One, and ya' gotta show! Prof. Gerda Reeb showed Himalaya last night for the Intercultural Club (Global Friends) by using this method.
Here's some info about the flick:
HIMALAYA, a film by Eric Valli
Media Watch: FVCC Current Events didn't show on Cable Channel Nine today -- maybe tomorrow. Carolyn G. Heilbrun's collection of essays: HAMLET'S MOTHER AND OTHER WOMEN is really fine. Thanks Prof. Kabler!
I snoozed during NPR news, and saw a little of political comedian Bill Maher on Larry King (ruefully laughing a bit) before I started reading. One story Heilbrun alluded to was Sylvia Beach's publishing of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Want a virtual tour of her bookstore, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris?:
Shakespeare and Company - Virtual Tour by Robert Jeantet
How about hearing the voice of Virgina Woolf? One essay by Heilbrun compared her works with those of James Joyce.
The Hours - Virginia Woolf - at CTF
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Weather: Threats of heavy snow -- hasn't quite happened yet, but we've added to our total levels of white stuff anyway. At least it's not worth your life to drive at a given moment. CORRECTION -- Just fifteen miles north of where I live, they had 30 inches of blowing snow, and US Highway 2 was closed all night!
Wildlife: I wonder what those two eagles are eating? They're hanging around the aereation pond in our lake, so it might be fish. At night the deer use Middle Foy's Lake as a highway, it's frozen everywhere except for that one spot.
Charity Alert: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
At the College: Christy Kabler, our literature professor, gave me a book of essays by Carolyn G. Heilbrun called HAMLET'S MOTHER AND OTHER WOMEN. I sent her the URL of this blog -- email me if you read this, please!
I'm back on cable TV! The "FVCC Current Events" tape was recorded and edited in less than a week. I'll get it down to Bresnan Communications after work.
Other Projects: Improved the John White Lecture Series page for the NW Montana Historical Society website:
The M -- Your Museum and More!
I've also updated the Hockaday Art Museum's site after a frantic New Year there (more to come):
Current Exhibits at the Hockaday Museum
Media Alert: Watched an interview with the late Ann Miller on TCM last night -- very good tap dancer, with a big ol' grin, from Hollywood's "Golden Age." Turner Classic Movies also showed a few of her movies -- she was "Too Darn Hot" in Kiss Me Kate for sure! It was great seeing clips of choreographer Bob Fosse in that film, and hearing her point of view about his early career as well.
New Hampshire Primary -- Saw a couple of speeches, heard a few pundits.
The horses are leaving the gate -- THEY'RE OFF!
Wildlife: I wonder what those two eagles are eating? They're hanging around the aereation pond in our lake, so it might be fish. At night the deer use Middle Foy's Lake as a highway, it's frozen everywhere except for that one spot.
Charity Alert: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
At the College: Christy Kabler, our literature professor, gave me a book of essays by Carolyn G. Heilbrun called HAMLET'S MOTHER AND OTHER WOMEN. I sent her the URL of this blog -- email me if you read this, please!
I'm back on cable TV! The "FVCC Current Events" tape was recorded and edited in less than a week. I'll get it down to Bresnan Communications after work.
Other Projects: Improved the John White Lecture Series page for the NW Montana Historical Society website:
The M -- Your Museum and More!
I've also updated the Hockaday Art Museum's site after a frantic New Year there (more to come):
Current Exhibits at the Hockaday Museum
Media Alert: Watched an interview with the late Ann Miller on TCM last night -- very good tap dancer, with a big ol' grin, from Hollywood's "Golden Age." Turner Classic Movies also showed a few of her movies -- she was "Too Darn Hot" in Kiss Me Kate for sure! It was great seeing clips of choreographer Bob Fosse in that film, and hearing her point of view about his early career as well.
New Hampshire Primary -- Saw a couple of speeches, heard a few pundits.
The horses are leaving the gate -- THEY'RE OFF!
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