Mr. and Mrs. Scatter know all about the sacred naming process.
In a recent post, Mr. Scatter waxed beautifully about William Faulkner and H.L. Mencken, Sir Toby Belch and some guy named Flem. As Mr. Scatter put it:
“Naming was a serious and sometimes flowery business. … Naming is an almost mystical occasion, an assigning of an [...]
Tomorrow is St. Valentine’s Day. This is an important occasion, and not one to be taken lightly — or, horror of horrors, forgotten — unless you enjoy being a thirty-five-year-old bachelor living in your parents’ basement and spending all your free time playing online Dungeons & Dragons.
Pancho Villa did not waste his time like that. [...]
My paternal grandmother’s name was Lizzie Lou Willingham. Not Elizabeth Louise. Lizzie Lou.
Lizzie Lou married Virgil Homer Hicks, a man whose naming signaled a certain familial aspiration. One of their offspring, my father, is named Irby Hicks. No middle name, and a first name that was a family surname. (Another of their children, my father’s [...]
HELLO? MR. SCATTER? ANYBODY HOME?
to evewybody else: shhh! be vewy vewy qwiet. let’s see how long it takes mr. scatter to notice i’ve posted something.
(hey, what’s up with the dreadful new digs?)
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Behold. My own blog sign-in. Not that I have bloglegs to go with it. I’ve had the superblogpower for a while and have been [...]
Seems like every time something cataclysmic happens, artists show up to help out. Like a lot of other people they know they can’t do much, but they also know they can do something. And often, because this is what they do best, they put on a show.
Especially when you’re talking about the local artists who [...]
On this very day two years ago — on February 8, 2008 — a fine strapping lad was loosed upon the world, and immediately started yawping. Yes, its name was Art Scatter, and it was born right here in river city: in Puddletown, Oregon, brave bubble of liberality, Do It Yourself center of the universe, [...]
As you may have noticed, here at Art Scatter we’ve been stressing out lately about the way we look. We were feeling … frumpy. We wanted something fresh, something new, and came up with three possible visual themes to replace Artsemerging, the theme we’ve been using since the blog began two years ago.
We asked for [...]
Here’s a story about the playwright Horton Foote, told by his daughter Daisy Foote and reprinted in the program for Profile Theatre’s new production of his play The Carpetbagger’s Children, which opened Saturday night:
A few years ago a playwright friend and I were having dinner with my father. My friend had just seen “The Carpetbagger’s [...]
Mr. Scatter understands an American football match of some importance is to take place this very afternoon. Squadrons from the midsized cities of Indianapolis, Indiana, and New Orleans, Louisiana will battle it out on a field called a gridiron to claim rights of municipal supremacy for the coming year.
All very manly. But Mr. Scatter would [...]
Thanks to Charles Noble, maestro of the terrific blog Noble Viola, and music writer extraordinaire Brett Campbell, for teaching Mr. Scatter how to take a screenshot on his Mac. (It’s easy!) This allows us to show you samples of how Art Scatter would look using the Web themes Veryplaintext 3.0 (the top series of photos) [...]