So, periodically, I Google myself to keep track of what someone (a director, a castmate, a secret admirer, what have you) might find if they did the same. What I find never ceases to irritate me more than it delights me, and sometimes it surprises me.

Speaking of surprise Google results: Months ago, while bored at work, I swiped an exceptionally genial and happy-looking headshot of my goofy, friendly friend Jonathan from his MySpace page. I placed the word “rapist” in the corner. Then I posted it as a comment on his MySpace. We both thought it was funny, but not long ago, he discovered that it came up when you Google him. So he took it down.

Anyway, here are my findings…

1) clarencewethern.com.

It’s my own damn fault that clarencewethern.com is the way it is. Which is to say, it has an introductory blurb from the Summer of 2006 and nothing else. I’d be embarassed if a potential employer happened upon it. I need to create just a splash page or something that says it’s under construction. Something spiffier and more professional looking than what’s there now. And my website that I’m working on with Brad isn’t ready to go live. Which brings me to…

2) The website I’m working on with Brad, which is eventually going to be on clarencewethern.com, but is currently housed at his own domain.

In theory, it shouldn’t come up in search engines, but it always does. It’s perpetually in a state of construction, and it has bad pictures and needs some more tweaking to be fit for promotional use. Unfortunately, anyone can see it already anyway, despite Brad’s repeated attempts to make it unsearchable.

3) My blog.

That’s fine with me, actually. I generally think of my MySpace page as an ersatz actor website. My blog (posted on LJ and MySpace concurrently) kind of has multiple personality disorder, though. I use it for self-promotion, I use it to keep in touch with people, I use it as a journal, and have, in the past, written entries meant purely for entertainment. It’s weird.

4) My MNArtists.org website.

Another self-promo thing. But I don’t really keep up with it. It doesn’t DO anything, really. I’ve considered deleting it, but it’s not hurting anybody. I get embarassed when it’s old info, though.

5) Reviews.

I’ve never really gotten glowing reviews. Usually, I just come out unscathed or am singled out as being one of the only decent parts of a bad show. Unfortunately, the two times I’ve directly and personally been reviewed poorly (by William Randall Beard for King Lear and by Steven LeVigne for P.S. Your Cat is Dead!) are among the results you get. Boo. Maybe I should start doing good work. Then maybe I’d get good press.

6) My mother’s obituary and related info.

Actually, right now, you get a post from a friend of hers that’s sort of an obit on their high school alumni message board, and it’s weird. I think she grossly misunderstood Mom’s final wishes. Mom wanted to be cremated and scattered at the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, and we did so. This woman says that Mom wanted her children to scatter her ashes “on a wild animal to set herself free as she was not able to walk.” Bizarre. I don’t know if she misunderstood or was being creative. That definitely would’ve made the scattering a lot more adventurous.

7) Bits and pieces from other people’s sites and blogs, as well as websites for projects I’ve done.

I’m continually surprised by the old SLU show press releases that come up. I thought I’d seen them all, but for the first time, I happened upon the press release for 2002′s The Laramie Project to find an accompanying photo. There were a lot of photos taken during rehearsal, some posed, some not. This one, I think, is decidedly cheesy, but whattaya gonna do. That’s me all the way on the right.

Maybe I’ll use my Christmas to fix my website junk, at least to the point where it’s not embarassing.