It was raining most of Friday, and started to clear up on Saturday. Glacier National Park has had flooding on the trail to Avalanche Lake because of the combination of precipitation and runoff. Since they send EVERYBODY to that same damn place, it creates a problem when things like this happen. They need more destination trails up there. (All they gotta do is find the money, and make sure it's alright with the bears.)

Sax Legend Maceo Parker at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

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Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Summer approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Sitemeter Sez: Two more visitors from abroad -- Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lisbon, Portugal. It's Sunday, which means Tanya Memme's fan club will be searching the Net again after Sell This House starts.

In The Community: Hockaday Museum of Art this afternoon! Our first two visitors are from New Jersey.

Media Watch: George Clinton and Walter Cronkite's team-rap Dope Dawg Decades has exceeded 200 viewers mid-month at the Huffington Post. It's no big thing, but Jim Soular's sensitive poetry barely passed that number each time.
The publicity campaign for Superman Returns continues! Speaking of Comic Book movies -- X-Men III did alright. It's holding on while other "blockbusters" are fading away. There's a media-heavy site at X-MEN III. The English actors are very good in this series, and I like Famke Janssen as Jean Grey -- Hooray for models! Academy Award winners Halle Berry and Anna Paquin seem to be gladly slumming in the Comic Book neighborhood too -- work is work.

Famke (Beumer) Janssen, doing her former job -- born in The Netherlands, she is one of the relativly few fashion models who have successfully switched over to movie careers. She plays Jean Grey AKA "Phoenix" in the X-Men movie series.

Physical prescence is a definite requirement for Superhero(ine) casting. Even Shakespearean actors Patrick (Dr. X) Stewart and Ian (Magneto) McClellan have it. When I was a teenager reading the original X-Men, poor Jean Grey had almost no character to speak of, no sex appeal, and she was hardly super-powered at all as the ironically-named "Marvel Girl." Writer Chris Claremont changed all that a decade later, and I'm glad. This is a franchise that could entertain the world for a long time, if treated with good humor and respect.