I took my new Chuck Taylor All Stars out for a test drive last night. Good news: They still make my feet look 1.5 times bigger than they really are, and they totally remind me of seventh grade, when I was on the junior high basketball team. I was tall and I could shoot, but [...]
Archive for September, 2009
As Pictured Below: Back in Time
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged '80s, basketball, childhood, Chuck Taylor, coast, Converse, drama club, fashion, friends, iPhone, junior high, mississippi, outcasts, shoes, sports, teenager, ToyCamera on September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As Pictured Below: Post-Taste
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged Cantina Laredo, food, hangover, iPhone, tequila on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I learned a lot about tequila at Cantina Laredo’s latest tequila-tasting. I now understand, for example, that you don’t have to drink everything the waiters put in front of you.
Loving the decade, hating the fashion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged '60s, '70s, '80s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, bellbottoms, boots, childhood, costume, fashion, Ghostbusters, kids, leggings, legwarmers, music, parachute pants, pop culture, rubber bracelets, silver bracelets, Swatch, teenager, tube tops on September 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been invited to an ’80s party. While I’m looking forward to the music and pop culture references, I find myself dreading the costume. I now know how people who grew up in the ’60s felt in the ’80s. You live through a decade’s fashion atrocities, then you have to put up with the whippersnappers making [...]
As Pictured Below: Cupcake Crescendo
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged childhood, food, alabama, Huntsville, trends, hipsters, Magnolia Bakery, Gigi's Cupcakes, cupcakes, sugar, cake, flavor, hangover on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know, I know. Cupcakes have to be reaching their peak on the trendiness scale. They’re served at weddings and corporate retreats. Hipsters line up outside Magnolia Bakery at midnight to get their buttercream fix. Fine. Just give me a moment to enjoy the newly opened Gigi’s Cupcakes in Huntsville, Alabama. I don’t remember eating too [...]
