Rain at night -- alright! The weather on Sunday and Monday was excellent during the day. That rapror circling round Little Foy's Lake was big enough to be an Eagle, but I think it was a Red Tailed Hawk. There are at least three Canadian Goose families on Firehouse Pond.

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

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
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: San Angelo, Texas -- Out-clicked to my own site, http://theatre.net; Brooklyn, New York -- looking for the Spiegel Tent; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- looking fot the Bindlestiffs at Fleisher's. There are Bindlestiff fans out there!
(I wonder how Bonnarroo went for them?)

In The Community: The gang at the Hockaday Museum of Art is taking a deep breath before changing the lower gallery and doing Arts In The Park this upcoming month. We are also upgrading our database to include location numbers in our permanent collection -- tedious and boring, but necessary. John Rawings is repeating his Sacred Stones lecture at another community venue on June 29. (Now where'd that damn multi-media disk go?)

Media Watch: Reading again -- Earth vs the Sci-Fi Filmmakers: 20 Interviews (2005) by Tom Weaver. A pretty good Web Review HERE.
Here are some more books by this interviewer/author/fan extraordinaire:
Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews
Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946
John Carradine: The Films
Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls, and Makeup
Poverty Row Horrors!: Monogram, PRC and Republic Horror Films of the Forties
Science Fiction Confidential: Interviews with 23 Monster Stars and Filmmakers
Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks: Conversations with 24 Actors, Writers, Producers and Directors from the Golden Age
I Was a Monster Movie Maker: Conversations with 22 SF and Horror Filmmakers
As George Clinton might say: Dawg-assed shows are some of man's best friends!

A-list New York model Yvette Vickers became a B-movie villainess in Los Angeles with low-budget Amerian International Pictures like Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

This digitized image is from a color cheesecake photo, shot around the time she was Playboy's Miss July of 1959.