Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category


My Pop Art Series

This is part of the Living Atlanta street art series that was done by local artists in 2011, but I have only recently discovered this piece, very close to my office at 34 Peachtree Street. I absolutely love it. So I played with it in Lightroom to my heart’s content, and this is the result. I can’t [...]

January 30th, 2012

Weekend in Pictures

Friday Completed Christmas-themed exhibit case we composed at the Archives, using 1950s photographs of Christmas decorations (TVA-documented) and old newspaper clippings, photos, and WWI draft cards featuring the names of reindeer (Blitzen, Rudolph, etc.) and other holiday-themed names (Chris Kringle, Santy Claus, Partridge and Peartree). Single Girl quilt: Home from work, I needed to see [...]

December 5th, 2011

Grace Bonney and me

In the few spare moments I sometimes have to peruse something that is not project- or homework-related readings, I have been absorbing Grace Bonney’s wonderful new home and DIY and all-around inspirational book, based off the blog she created and edits, Design*Sponge. I told her I love the headboard she made for her own room, [...]

November 3rd, 2011

Bossy lady

One of my favorite of those old American Express ads, featuring Tina Fey, writer and mother I loved Tina Fey’s memoir Bossypants. Her thoughts on being a woman in society, laughing at her own childhood, recounting the sagas of SNL writing days and Sarah Palin sketches, talk of her father, 30 Rock writing and development, motherhood, [...]

August 11th, 2011

Summer… oh, sweet summer.

Yes, that’s me, on the Caribbean beach in Trinidad, Cuba. May 2011. Man, this summer is turning me, and my world, on our heads. I, who usually starts on research pretty earlier in the semester for papers, have not even settled on topics for my two papers I have to write about Cuba. If you [...]

June 1st, 2011

Ode to a great movie, in Kathleen Kelly’s tangent on books

AOL user Shopgirl writes to her online crush, ny152, on her trusty IBM circa 1998. Nora Ephron is exceedingly talented, and she writes some of the most charming movies in existence. Even when they aren’t box office hits, or even critically well-received, I usually enjoy them enormously. Of these, I have seen You’ve Got Mail [...]

March 5th, 2011

Recalling tropical oases…

Today we had our warmest day in awhile in old Atlanta, and the snow by my house is slowly but surely melting away. I am not tired of the winter, in fact I am enjoying it a lot. I soak up the cold season while we have it, because the summer heat is enough to [...]

January 16th, 2011

Snow & solitude, a walk through the woods

Serenity. I love the crispness of color that a blanket of white snow brings to everything else around it. It’s like the world becomes black, white, and green only. I took an extra long walk today, walking cautiously along the sidewalks where I encountered some civilization in the form of other bundled-up walkers. But the [...]

January 11th, 2011

“You’re a wizard, Harry.”

Honeyduke’s, where I bought a Chocolate Frog for my brother and took in the whole whimsical place. Very few people get to experience their favorite fairy tale world in real life. Unless you happen to be in a movie made by Tim Burton or your imagination is made in the physical world at an amusement [...]

January 10th, 2011

“Jimmy Fallon’s late-night house of joy,” and why he’s the best on TV

A dose of Jimmy Fallon does the soul wonders. The other day on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy performed a Christmas tune with Dee Snider (of Twisted Sister fame) and his Late Night band, which just happens to be the fabulous Roots. He sang and played his guitar alongside some amazing talent, and did [...]

December 19th, 2010