happy anniversary to this blog

Sharing photos of cats and idiot man-child third basemen since 2009. Thanks for sticking around, y’all, even as I got flaky the last six months. Expect more photos of idiot man-child third basemen and record reviews soon.

trying to have a green thumb

I am a notorious plant killer, but so far since last year I am managing to keep a fleet of them alive through sheer obsession and frequent Pinterest research. They are all named Bob. Very little besides reading on the couch next to Trav makes me happier than wandering through a garden section right now,…

these are some kittens

The kittens are finally not scared of us! Well. Mostly not scared of us. Not scared of us enough for me to get up in their faces with the camera. So: I got you some kittens. They’re my kittens, but you can make kissy noises at them. This is Sylvia Catchell. She has won more…

makes the or seem more than it did before

Living with someone is sometimes kind of weird. Trav knows me better than anyone else in the world — I said to Allie in an email a few weeks ago, the closest phrase to describe what we have is that he recognizes my DNA, and I recognize his — but because before we got back…

college baseball: miami @ unc

Two, three, four. Miami won the series, 2-1, but Carolina got three quality starts and the offense woke up on Sunday. Progress.

concerts: frank turner @ greene street club

If you’ve followed me even a little on social media at any point over the last, oh, say, five years, you know that I’ve been waiting to see Frank Turner for, oh, say, the last five years. In 2009, I discovered Frank’s music and, since then, repeatedly, his music has been a balm and a…

concerts: cursive, beach slang, megafauna @ cat’s cradle

Trav is already shaking my life up, in that, on Thursday night at the Cradle, I didn’t just think, This is boring and I hate it of Cursive’s set. I paused, and I listened, and I identified what they were doing with the guitars, and then I thought, this is not boring but it is also…