football: ga tech @ duke

football: ga tech @ duke, originally uploaded by minervacat. “It’s national TV, you shouldn’t have worn that shirt.” — Jay Bilas on GameDay

bristol rhythm & roots: holy ghost tent revival

bristol rhythm & roots: holy ghost tent revival, originally uploaded by minervacat. “One thing pop music is good for is remembering that somewhere inside us is the potential for unvanquishable joy.” — John Darnielle

abandoned swimming pool, sanford

abandoned swimming pool, sanford, originally uploaded by minervacat. People say photographs don’t lie. Mine do. — David LaChapelle

green #21

green #21, originally uploaded by minervacat. Finding the right work is like discovering your soul in the world. — Thomas Moore Maja picked out this photo yesterday when I said, hey, pick a photo for me to post tomorrow!, and this quote is for her. Whenever I read that line, it soothes me a little….

carolina @ duke, wallace wade stadium

carolina @ duke, wallace wade stadium, originally uploaded by minervacat. There’s something about the pageantry and passion — the way sunshine comes later departs earlier behind the colored leaves of the trees, and the pounding drums in an on-rushing band on a Southern campus — that stirs your heart. People who otherwise would not speak…

midtown dickens @ TRKfest 2009

midtown dickens @ TRKfest 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. We mention our cherished nightclub, Cat’s Cradle (in Carrboro), and our indie music boom in the 1990s, when bands like Superchunk, Polvo, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers convinced hundreds of young hairy people to load their cars with guitars and amplifiers and drive to our town….

baseball: scranton/wilkes-barre yankees @ durham bulls

baseball: scranton/wilkes-barre yankees @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and…

jonny’s birthday party

jonny’s birthday party, originally uploaded by minervacat. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman…

holy ghost tent revival @ local 506

holy ghost tent revival @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. “A photograph is a secret within a secret. The more is shows, the less you know.” — from The Brothers Bloom