Comments for Art Scatter

Comment on Scatter update: Deemer’s hyperdrama, Mothers of God, women with whips by LaValle

LaValle — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:20:44 +0000

Busy, busy , you are. Nice to see you at the Whitsell. Ohse’s voice made for a great evening.

Sunday night we’re heading over to hear 45 Parallel at the Alberta Rose Theatre. You might schedule another night out if your dance card is open.

Comment on Live from Tammany: It’s politics 2012 by Martha Ullman West

Martha Ullman West — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:57:30 +0000

Ahhhh, memories…Back in the day, when I still lived in New York and voted there, I was persuaded to get out of a sick bed at 7:30 on election night (the polls closed at to vote for a guy named Edward Koch, the Village Independent Democrats’ candidate for District Leader, his opposiiton Carmine deSapio, the last of the great Tammany Hall politicians. It seemed to be the right thing to do at the time, but Koch was one of those liberal reform politicians who once they get into office (you’ll recall he became the mayor of New York) become conservative and noiosy about it. So where is Tammany Hall when you need it, I ask? Because I think the college boy in the White House could do with some old fashioned twist your arms ward-heelers. Honest graft? That would be trading votes for patronage; dishonest graft? That’s the Supreme Court declaring corporations to be persons to enable them to buy the elections of politicians who will guess what? Legislatively help them to continue their highly dishonest not to mention piously hypocritical graft.

Comment on Mitt and Newt: On to Florida! by Martha Ullman West

Martha Ullman West — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:05:42 +0000

Well played all three of you, Hicks, Deemer and Field
What about some nice buttons that say Mewt Newt, that could actually be activated to do just that, c.f. the button on the tv remote.

Comment on The time-traveler’s tale: reading in 2011 by Bob Hicks

Bob Hicks — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:15:51 +0000

Thanks, LaValle and RCR. Powell’s will be pleased. RCR, I see you’re reading and enjoying “Dracula.” Excellent. Have you tried Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”? It’s quite amazingly good, after all these years.

Comment on Cry Like a Rainy Day: Etta James, 73 by Bob Hicks

Bob Hicks — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:13:14 +0000

An excellent response, LaValle. Mrs. Scatter and I have been spinning a lot of Etta the last couple of days.

Comment on Mitt and Newt: On to Florida! by Bob Hicks

Bob Hicks — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:33:50 +0000

Well played, Charles!

Still, we have a duty to observe and comment. Now that Field has joined the Scatter stable, we’re thinking of also adding the Scottish poet William Miller. You may remember him as the investigative reporter who broke the news of the notorious Wee Willie Winkie Affair – “upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,” indeed! Miller may be just the lad to get to the bottom, as it were, of Newt’s knotty affairs.

Comment on Mitt and Newt: On to Florida! by Charles Deemer

Charles Deemer — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:32:43 +0000

This is wishful thinking, Bob
Politics is like a mob
That never rests or goes away
No matter what we think or say

Comment on Cry Like a Rainy Day: Etta James, 73 by LaValle

LaValle — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:15:35 +0000

What a wonderful tribute! Now I need to put on her music before we head upstairs.

Comment on The time-traveler’s tale: reading in 2011 by Rose City Reader

Rose City Reader — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:08:52 +0000

This is wonderful. I am going to spend more time with it over the weekend. You always inspire my reading!

Comment on From our stove to yours: small bites by Bob Hicks

Bob Hicks — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:02:36 +0000

The astonishing thing is, the dream was so real — sort of like those old April Fools Day fake news stories about the technological breakthrough to Smellavision, promising the imminent joy of aromas wafting over the airwaves to your screen. A real boon for the Food Network ….