I get my love of hot dogs from my mother. (Hi, Mama!) As long as I’ve known her (which is a long time), she’s eaten them with chili (preferably Paterson’s, from a can), cole slaw and mustard, and as I have gotten older, I’m starting to find that’s how I prefer them as well. Never…
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. It wouldn’t be springtime if there wasn’t an American Aquarium CD release party at the Pour House. Some year there won’t be one, and I’ll be confused and weirded out all year by the absence. But this year there is one, and…
worth getting up for: april
southport, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in April: Dr. Dog’s Shame, Shame, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings’ I Learned The Hard Way, and Josh Ritter’s So Runs The World Away; the beach; SEC and Southern Conference baseball, and the MLB; forgetting that Chad Holbrook is on the SC staff now,…
Hello, heart burn!
Welcome to With Mustard And Relish, a blog about eating hot dogs. Good hot dogs, bad hot dogs, gourmet hot dogs, cheap hot dogs from Single-A baseball stadiums in North Carolina. All hot dogs. Because if you’re going to make a life list, at least one entry should give you heartburn; and if you’re going…
it’s been a week of photographer’s block
miniature tigers @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. So I’m looking at a lot of stuff to try and get motivated. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration: An excellent collection of concert set lists. My collection of set lists lives between two poetry books on the edge of my desk; it is not…
one last for national poetry month
frightened rabbit @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Yours & Mine (Alice Fulton) Through your lens the sequoia swallowed me like a dryad. The camera flashed & forgot. I, on the other hand, must practice my absent- mindedness, memory being awkward as a touch that goes unloved. Lately your eyes have shut down to…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in april
frightened rabbit @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums and EPs I listened to in April: Annuals — Sweet Sister EP: this is deliciously sweet, cleverly layered indie pop, and it’s really good, and it just pisses me off all the worse that Annuals remain one of the…
frightened rabbit @ cat’s cradle
Straight up: I didn’t want to go to last night’s Frightened Rabbit show at the Cat’s Cradle. I was tired, I’m old, the weekend had already been busy and long, it was a late start on a Sunday night, there were two openers I’d never heard of, I knew it was close to sold out…
raleigh world beer fest 2010
Beer Fest, even tempered by mid-afternoon rain, is always a good time. And a photographic paradise!
the old ceremony @ cat’s cradle
And then the moments after the moment. It’s hard to write about bands you see over and over again after a while; there’s nothing I haven’t already said about the Old Ceremony’s live performance before now. Great guys, great band, spectacular live performers. A phenomenal set, and I am very much looking forward to their…
brand new kind of photography 