Thanks to all my steady readers and linkers -- Sitemeter tells me you've been visiting!

It took awhile, but I finally published a chronicle of the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe, which includes glimpses of the scene in which we worked in the early to late 70's. My goal was to have it done before the Holidays, and I did it -- but the people involved have been busy with seasonal responsibilities, so I'm just going to have to wait for the feedback to really begin.
Check out the Handy Table of Contents.

Due to several requests, I've also created a team blog, open to all participants in the Great SL Mime Troupe, and our fellow-travelers.

The Mime Troupe Online Saga and MORE: 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.

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

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

In Celebration of the Ballet Russes Centenary

Ida Rubinstein, High Patroness of this Blog as she was photographed in 1909 -- The Toast of Gay Paris!

The Theater X-Net project is very important, and takes a lot of my attention, as a result this blog is going on hiatus for an indefinite period of time, at least for new postings. As always, feel free to link from this site!

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.

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

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

Ida Rubinstein, High Patroness of this Blog, channeling her friend Sarah Bernhardt's portrayal of "Camille" in 1923.

Beautiful Autumn weather and full Hunter's Moon. A report of a Bald Eagle at the slough as well.

Sitemeter Sez: Marseille, France; New Braunfels, Texas; Oostburg, Netherlands; Hyde Park, New York, and San Luis Obispo, 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.

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 later show is missing something to make it compelling this season. I didn't agree with the judges' decisions about which contestants to send home. Those two things aren't necessarily connected. The former show was entertaining over two nights -- Was that Candy Dulfer playing sax behind Rod Stewart? (Maybe, maybe not -- she's working in Europe later this week, according to her site.) Alex and Edyta looked GREAT dancing with one another. Colbie Caillat, and her band 1) Were brave enough to play live on network TV; 2) Looked like they'd rolled outta the tour truck ten minutes earlier in a venue where everyone else was preened like a poodle in a kennel show. Mark & Derek's song wasn't memorable at all -- the whole production came off looking and sounding like bad Bollywood, but I'm glad 1) The two men danced well; 2) Lip-sync'd, so we weren't subjected to any singing lousier than the lousy singing on the record.

A re-digitized portion of a gig photo featuring saxophonist Candy Dulfer in the Czech Republic five years ago, or so. (I knew her dad, Hans Dulfer, slightly, and her teacher, Rosa King in the late 70's.)

The weather has been actually OK, for Autumn -- I'll take it!

I did an out-and-back drive to Ferney, Canada yesterday. It was pretty funny sight at the border when the mountains turned bright white on the Canadian side.

A Mountain Sheep overlooking the Elk River off of Highway 3, near Ferney, B.C.

Sitemeter Sez: Ft Mitchell, Kentucky; Somewhere, Canada; Glenwood Landing, New York; South San Francisco, California (stayed a LONG time); Woodbridge, Virginia; Downingtown, Pennsylvania; Middlesbrough, UK (been there -- on the edge of the North York Moors), and Anchorage, Alaska.

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.

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

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

Media Watch: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (she uses her married name now) was OK in Steve Martin's dreadful Pink Panther 2. Y'know? I put up with A Shot In The Dark, and the very first Pink Panther back in 1964, but got bored with 'em. I hated Alan Arkin's Inspector Clouseau, even though it wasn't totally HIS fault that the movie was so bad.
I also saw Ashwarya and her husband Abhishek on Oprah Winfrey's talk show. Good luck with doing Western movies, Mrs. Bachchan!
Montana NPR had Houston Grand Opera performing Beatrice and Benedict (1862) by Hector Berlioz -- more like an operetta based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing -- Beatrice was Joyce DiDonato, and Benedict was Norman Reinhardt. How about Shakespeare's major characters? Hero: Ailish Tynan, Ursule: Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, and Don Pedro: Ryan McKinny. It was in English, with a fair amount of spoken humor, plus lots of pleasant choral work to accompany Berlioz's duets and arias.

Nocturne from Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict -- detail from a print by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904).

Gray and cold all week, with very dark mornings which will get even DARKER after DST ends this Sunday. The Deer have been greeting me on Woodland Drive again.

Sitemeter Sez: Anchorage, Alaska; East Greenville, Pennsylvania; Oakland, California; Borden, Ontario; Belgrade, Montana, and Morgantown, West Virginia.

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.

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

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

Media Watch: I had a good time visiting the Hockaday Museum as a guest artist, rather than an employee, last night. Didn't get to talk to everyone I wanted to speak with, but almost did.
Trash A Go Go I and II Double eliminations on BOTH shows. It's dangerous to be associated with the name "Sabrina" on Trash A Go Go I, but at least they got rid of one of the male schlubs, even though the football player was acting like he wanted to go instead. I'm not fond of Trash A Go Go II's results show at all -- don't know how to "fix" it either, except by using guest stars, and eliminating biological sex as criteria in the final six.

Two of MY favorite dancers:

(R to L) Patsy D'Roubay (that's French!) and Hillary Elmore onstage in the late 1970's, choreography by Debra Ryals. Hillary also toured with Katie Duck in Tunisia.

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!