isle of palms, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. trying to be thoughtful in the first brights of dawn (Mary Oliver) i am thinking, or trying to think, about all the imponderables for which we have no answers yet endless interest all the range of our lives and it’s good for the head, no…
dylan vs petty: birds & arrows
dylan vs petty: birds & arrows, originally uploaded by minervacat. Since we are — *gulp* — in the back half of 2010, early contenders for my end-of-2010 top five albums: The Black Keys — Brothers Woodpigeon — Die Stadt Musikanten Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed & the True Loves — Come And Get It Gaslight Anthem —…
baseball: bluefield o’s @ burlington royals
Thirty six. Not gonna lie: rookie league baseball is Not Good Baseball. But, hey, the Orioles won two in a row! Sure, it’s the Bluefield Orioles — but it’s a start, right? Try not to think about the big club’s bullpen while you tell yourself that.
worth getting up for: july
carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in July: rookie league baseball, and free tickets to see Team USA; fireworks at the DBAP; photos from the Cape Cod League; Chatham County Line at the Cradle; shooting on a press pass;this photo of Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium; Counting Crows live; Our State magazine’s…
the big picture @ nightlight
the big picture @ nightlight, originally uploaded by minervacat. Minor victories: I routinely bitch and moan about the Nightlight, because I love seeing shows there but loathe shooting them, simply because three red lightbulbs and a string of Christmas lights doesn’t cut it for decent lighting. But last night I found the one sweet spot…
the old ceremony @ wallace plaza
the old ceremony @ wallace plaza, originally uploaded by minervacat. there is a song i sing when nobody’s around and i forget the words sometimes but it never lets me down ’cause when i get to the part where i feel just about fine well, i don’t want to wither on the vine
chicks dig the long ball
Dear Nice Person Who Has This Week Repeatedly Googled For The Brand Of Baseball Bat That The UNC Baseball Team Uses: Let me tell you what, after three years of concerted Baseball America podcast listening, I can recite the DeMarini Demo House and Easton buy-a-baseball-bat-from-us jingles along with John Manuel whenever I hear them. The DeMarini…
love is a mix tape
jason isbell acoustic @ the berkeley cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. My music collection, these days, is primarily digital. I still own a ton of CDs — they slide around in the backseat and under the front seats of Azula the Little Red Toyota of Doom, they’re stacked on the bottom shelf of one of…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in july
pink flag @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. If I’d saved Gold Motel for this month, I could have made this the all-new-albums-by-people-who-used-to-record-on-Fueled-By-Ramen-now-playing-with-other-bands edition. And Steel Train toured with the Hush Sound once. Alas! Instead it’s just albums I listened to in July: The Young Veins — Take A Vacation!: do you ever feel…
be brand new
the royal nites @ slim’s, originally uploaded by minervacat. “See what everybody else has seen, think what nobody else has thought.” — Albert Szent-Gyoergi
brand new kind of photography 