Happy 2008! A big Rough-Legged Hawk was circling around on New Years Eve.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from The Bronx, New York and Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. They both came in from non-blogger sites.

REAL SLC Punk, not the movie, 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 Hockaday Museum of Art opens again today. I hope that traveling show arrives, so we can get it up on the walls before next week.

Media Watch: New Years Eve Capers -- Dick Clark looked better this year than he did last, but that stroke still messed his speech up badly. All-round entertainer "Fergie" is swimming in Pop Glop too much for my tastes. She was excellent in the funkier Black Eyed Peas. Young Miley (Hannah Montana) Cyrus wouldn't win any reality show contests for singing, but she held forth at Times Square just fine -- American Idol Carrie Underwood came off more like a commodity in comparison. Speaking of which, Mariah Carey was trying to "re-brand" herself as "Mimi," but the way she was (un)dressed made her look like a candidate for Pneumonia. (Remember what happened to Puccini's Mimi? Oops, that was Tuberculosis.) Remember -- I have no complaints with nudity or near nudity, but I think there are ways of handling those touchy issues with dignity.

Watch for Cellulose to Celluloid -- My NEW Flash Gordon Web project, co-starring the original Princess Aura and Azura, Witch Queen of Mongo.


Jim Keefe deepened Azura's character and back-story while he drew Flash Gordon. Here she frustrates one of Dale's Spitfire moments, trying to spring Flash from the Witch Queen's dungeon. (Lower Left) Alex Raymond's original vision circa 1935.