The clouds blew away for about 36 hours -- cold mornings without them, but the beautifully mild Autumn weather continued.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Newark, New Jersey; Athens, Georgia; Emeryville, California; Unspecified, France (looking at Topor and Panique); Cardiff, Wales; New Orleans, Louisiana; Casper, Wyoming; Raleigh, North Carolina; Basel and Vaud, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany.

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: Keep that 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: The 2007 Members Only Salon at the Hockaday Museum of Art goes up on Tuesday! We had BOTH Montana senators at FVCC on the day before yesterday-- living in a low-population state means things like this can happen.

Media Watch: Dancing With The Stars AKA Trash A Go Go is on TV again! Two-time champion Cheryl Burke drew a real schlub for a partner this time -- lounge lizard Wayne Newton. They were gone after the second show. There are a couple of front-runners, but a lotta dreck needs to be eliminated before any real contest develops.
NPR ran some alarmist propaganda about DRUG DEALERS in MIAMI trading in MEDICAL EQUIPMENT this morning. Horrors -- brown-skinned people with wheelchairs and walkers!
The hideously stupid perversion of what once was our health care system makes criminal exploitation inevitable -- the heartless protection from the law which the HMOs and other slimers enjoy has been co-opted by OTHER professional thugs.
Whatever the real truth is, I'm certain this story was planted as part of a Right Wing campaign against the SCHIP renewal specifically, and medical reform in general. Will Blackwater be patrolling our Emergency Wards?
(Take a breath....)

Doris Lessing won her well-deserved Nobel Prize for Literature. If you can stomach emotional roller-coasters, I recommend The Golden Notebook and her Martha Quest series Children of Violence. Some of her African tales are excellent too! I was worried that her Sci-Fi novels of the 80's might have put off the Nobel Committee -- they weren't her very best work, or the best S-F of the era, but there were brilliant passages in them.

Like A Version -- Dubbed for the Very First Time!


Detroit's Madonna Louise Cicconi (Now Mrs. Guy Ritchie of London) is reportedly signing some big new contract with the company that is touring the Rolling Stones. This is a redigitization of a scene in her book Sex from the early 90's. (Guess what it's about?) It was on the shelf at the Spokane Public Library, but was wirebound, so it fell apart FAST! She also put out a movie called In Bed With Madonna (Called Truth or Dare in America) about her Blonde Ambition Tour. "Do you think I'm overexposed?" she asked in the adverts.