http://www.artscatter.com a Portland-centric arts and culture blog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:39:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Laura Grimes Certain laws of buying school supplies are writ large in pink Pearl eraser and are never, ever violated. Herewith the laws: --You will be slightly irritated with yourself for choosing to shop for school supplies at a certain store despite a bitter memory of hundreds of backpacks conspicuously blocking ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/how-to-not-buy-school-supplies/ By Laura Grimes Dear Mr. Scatter, I see you have delayed your return to the Scatter front for another day. Be assured that this does not reflect poorly on your dedication as a loving father and husband, though I did have to clean out the little black skillet again, contrary to what ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/whisky-and-the-art-of-cleaning-closets/ By Laura Grimes Dear Mr. Scatter, Everything's fine. Really. No need to hurry home. Both Large Smelly Boys are making noises about wanting to be an only child, but I'm sure it's nothing. The Large LSB has a Judy Garland film on the telly. The Small LSB does not want the Judy Garland film ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/alls-quiet-on-the-scatter-front/ By Laura Grimes Mr. Scatter has been hogging the blog of late. I forgive him, though. It’s not like he’s been eating bonbons. I know full well that he’s the muscle to my muse, the bacon to my trifle. Art Scatter works to deliver a full-course meal, and I ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/does-this-blog-make-me-look-fat-musicals-comedy-and-a-true-confession/ By Bob Hicks Art Scatter's ramble through the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 75th anniversary season is closer to its end than its beginning, and it strikes us once again how much this thicket of theater interconnects. A lot of that has to do with the nature of rotating repertory, which gives audiences ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/ashland-4-the-quality-of-mercy-the-surprise-of-love/ By Bob Hicks Lanky and improbably lean-headed, with a cliffside of forehead pierced by a widow's peak of bristling orange hair, Dan Donohue looks a little like the late-night television host Conan O'Brien -- or maybe an O'Brien sired by Loki, the god of mischief. As Hamlet in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/ashland-3-hamlet-the-fool/ By Bob Hicks Art Scatter, despite its name, is mostly about pulling things together. We examine the daunting scatter of incident that is contemporary culture -- this endlessly broad turmoil of emotions, beliefs and events -- and gather them together, looking for patterns, similarities, fragments of coalescence. Out of chaos, we ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/ashland-2-pride-prejudice-ruin-respect/ By Laura Grimes We're traveling, we pack of five breathing each other's air and bumping inside each other's heads. We eat the same food. We stop from spot to spot, sightsee, and mere snippets intermingle, weave together something anew and haul us along. Everywhere we go we pick up words and take ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/traveling-a-jumbled-rambly-literary-road/ By Bob Hicks Ah, the adventures of the road. The brain trust at Art Scatter World Headquarters has packed up and squeezed itself temporarily into the Scattermobile, partaking of adventures large and small. We've ingested the oyster and the clam, descended into Devil's Churn, gazed upon the gathered elk, spied osprey ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/ashland-the-first-night-the-twelfth/ By Laura Grimes When I complained to Mr. Scatter that I had only snippets, no whole stories, he said, "Do centered asterisks." "Wha?" I creased my brow. "Do centered asterisks." Like that's supposed to help me. I'm not sure what the heck he's talking about. Oh, wait, there's one! * Oh, heck. Now it's gone. The Scatter Family ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/on-the-road-with-the-centered-asterisk/