I have been doing a lot of driving! During my travels, I saw the Ririe/Woodbury Dance Company; Park City, Utah; The Saturday Farmers Market and 9th & 9th in Salt Lake, and George Thorogood & the Destroyers at the Union Pacific depot in my old home town.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Swift Current, Saskatchewan; Saint Paul, Minnesota; Chesapeake, Virginia; Rome, Italy.

Remembering my friend George-O at: 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

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue; Bodacious Princess Aura I; Hapless Aura II; The fiery Emperor Ming; The Orson Welles Rumor Debunked; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!





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 his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Make an Autumnal Equinoxial Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. Also check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site.

In The Community: Visit the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell, Montana if you are up there.

Media Watch: My friend Jon Ludwig gave me some copies of VERY obscure albums from over 40 years ago. I enjoyed P.J. Proby's Enigma, and was pleased to read that he still has a career driving his fans and detractors crazy in England.
I am also enjoying listening to San Francisco's vastly-underrated Beau Brummels on those long freeway excursions. Their best songs were so original and well-done that I can handle a few clinkers.
The drummer, Jon Andersen, later had a couple of hit singles with Harpers Bizarre, but the core of the Brummels were singer Sal Valentino and guitarist Ron Elliot. The latter became a Warner Brothers studio musician behind Randy Newman to mention just one of his superb associations. He also put out the excellent album From the City to the Sea under his own name. Valentino paid his bills with Stoneground in LA during the mid-70's. The Beau Brummels reformed in the late 70's with their original Irish rhythm guitarist/bassist. Their epynomous album was excellent, and holds up well today, but that was the last I heard of them.


The historic Union Pacific Depot in Salt Lake. George Thorogood performed upstairs in The Depot Club, built into the north wing, which disappears from this re-digitized picture to the right.