kvetching

Well, frankly, it's the enemy of getting anything done. Not that I haven't been doing anything (you know, what with the BRAVO section coming out on Thursday and all), but all the things I have been doing have been print-related. How un-journalist 2.0 of me.

But the thing is, I started to post about Portland's Time-Based Art, and I was gonna put up photos plus a cool little video of one of the artworks, and ... it all got to be too much: Making the links! Argh! Getting the pictures the right size! AUGH!

And then ... well ... I was so busy that Newsroll (TM) went on the fritz.
Which is too bad because there's lots of great info out there, and now it's theater season (officially kicked off a bit early with Willamette Rep's A Body of Water, review coming in print on Thursday), and it's also the start of the school year, and I have classes to teach.

Luckily Chuck, Molly, Alan, Ted and Camilla will be keeping you all up to date. But I'll try for a newsroll today ... just as soon as I get a few more authors interviewed!

To-do List:
1. Learn to podcast
2. Podcast something dramatically interesting something
3. Find quirky things on Interwebs and write about them
4. Remember that finished is better than perfect(ly unfinished)

Quirky non-web moment:
Today, I have eaten strawberry yogurt (organic! local-ish!), beet risotto (organic, some local ingredients), beet greens (from those beets) and peach-blueberry-raspberry cobbler (mostly organic and local, though not the cobbler part). What's the problem here? Everything is the same color. Time for some iceberg lettuce.

Speaking of dark red/maroon, gratuitous Shakespeare moment: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival puts on Coriolanus next year. Has anyone ever read this play? It awaits my free time (after all of the Winter Reading reading is finished, probably).
This is the PBS Coriolanus poster. I don't get the imagery (it's too small, really, for me to see it clearly), but it looks nice and bloody.

Here's what the PBS website has to say about this production:
Coriolanus
Synopsis:

In a time before Empire, one man will hold the fate of ancient Rome in his hands. But pride will turn his hand against his own, and make equal enemies of friend and foe.

"Coriolanus": a warrior's tale.

Rated R. some scenes of violence, and of a character's head being removed from his own backside (figuratively).

"I hope Colin Powell was taking notes."
- Timeweek