baseball: mississippi state @ south carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. Sixteen. Extra special thanks to Ash‘s mom K. for our tickets; which were great seats and we had a lovely time at the game, although I got a bit sunburnt on one shoulder. South Carolina has a beautiful stadium, SEC baseball is good times, and…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
isle of palms, sc, april 2010
isle of palms, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller
baseball: georgia southern @ college of charleston
baseball: georgia southern @ college of charleston, originally uploaded by minervacat. Fifteen. Sometimes you just need to go to another state and watch baseball you aren’t invested in.
happy national poetry month!
wye oak @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Loud Music (Stephen Dobyns) My stepdaughter and I circle round and round. You see, I like the music loud, the speakers throbbing, jam-packing the room with sound whether Bach or rock and roll, the volume cranked up so each bass notes is like a hand smacking…
worth getting up for: march
shoe container gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in March: my 30th birthday; days off for my birthday; Frightened Rabbit’s The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, the Drive-By Truckers’ The Big To-Do, and the Morning Benders’ Big Echo; ACC college baseball, even when we lose series; TEAM WAYNE GRAHAM1; a rash of Suburban…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in march
shearwater @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. I slacked on album reviews this month — I had very important baseball things to attend to, yo — but here’s a grab bag of stuff I acquired and listened to this month. Sea Bear — We Built A Fire: Icelandic indie pop; this album sparkles in…
baseball: ga tech @unc, game three
baseball: ga tech @unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Fourteen. Now I know why the basketball team’s season didn’t fuss me; I was saving the heartache for baseball.
baseball: ga tech @ unc, game two
baseball: ga tech @ unc, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Thirteen. shep. bought herself a Sigma 70-300mm lens, and it’s kind of glorious. Way more glorious than last night’s game, alas. I love the baseball team fiercely and without reserve, mostly for themselves but in a small part because everyone loves the basketball team…
baseball: ga tech @ unc, game one
baseball: ga tech @ unc, game one, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twelve.
shearwater @ local 506
Shearwater is one of those bands that I feel like I should love, since they’re right up my alley sonically, but I just … don’t. Maybe in part because my brain has always classified Shearwater as an Okkervil River side project (though Will Sheff has been long gone from his involvement with Shearwater, and Meiburg…
brand new kind of photography 