Twice a week for the last month and a half I’ve been practicing with this young startup franchise the “Mustard Seeds”. Formed by Rebecca’s brother Colby, and joined by a small force of mustached young misfits, together we take to a genuine baseball diamond for the first time tomorrow replete with dreams of baseball glory. For us to succeed it would really be a rags to riches tale, for many of us are out of shape deskjockies trying to rekindle a love of the game that should have never waned. Our opponents, on the other hand, drink folgers instead of fairtrade and get their meat from the woods. Three games will be held early morning to determine our seeding in the single day tournament, and then the hour long games will continue until a victor is made known later in the evening. One of our first rivals of the day will be the “College Station Ninjas” who will most likely prove to be formidable foes. The word on the wire is that the CSNs are actually the Texas A&M baseball team looking for some practice. But we’re ready, and unlike their prideful hearts…. we have hearts of champions.
The high yesterday was 108 … I’m not used to this.
Tomorrow is the big game for the Mustard Seeds by the way… what’s that you say? You’ve never heard of the mysterious and most excellent softball organization known as the Majestic Mustard Seeds? Well after tomorrows tournament you’ll be readin’ about it in the Sundie paper!
But in the mean time just think about this dog.
So we’re Honeymoonin’ in Portland. If someone who possibly stumbles across this blog and is cool as a cucumber and also lives in Portland, please tell us where the quaintest coffeeshop and coolest and most ‘off the beaten path’ place for an afternoon date would be… and I’ll mail you $1.00 and some dirt from Texas. If you could tell me where the best view of the city from a highplace is, I’ll throw in some candy.
Thank you,
Adam
Completely photoshopped, but still a great set of portraits. Kinda reminds me of a Chuck Close painting.
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GIRL>Rebers
TACO>Torchie’s Tacos>Fried Avacado Taco
OVERALL TACO EXPERIENCE>El Chilito
COFFEE>Summermoon>Woodroasted coffee
DATE>Whole Foods>Town Lake Park>Mozarts on the Lake
BOOKSTORE>Recycled Reads
COFFEESHOP WITH SNOBBIEST YET MOST IMMATURE STAFF AND MOST OVERPRICED FOOD THAT IS THE ONLY PLACE TO GET COFFEE NEAR MY WORKPLACE>Clementine
HOT>Sun
MEAN PERSON>Mexican gentleman recently fired from my workplace for basically being mean. He spoke no english but glared at me on a regular basis… with hate in his eyes.
MAN ABOUT TOWN>Greg Leppert
LACK OF SLEEP>Me
CAR THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT’S ABOUT TO BREAK>1998 Toyota Camry
CAT>Swigart
For the last year of so Rebecca has been amassing old records, vintage dresses and baby clothes, and other random retroness with the hopes of starting some sort of store in the future. Well tonight we’ve decided to go ahead and open up the “Oh Dear Things” online store on Etsy.com. We’ll let you know when it’s up and running. It’s probably going to take us all night and all morning to photograph and upload everthing to etsy. I’ll post a link to it when we’re through… here we go…
Rebecca’s 6 year old Nephew Jonah is apparently going to be a indie-rock super star. These are some cuts form his newest release entitled “Mr. Hawk”. The first is a Fleet Foxes cover and the second is a complete Jonah original, have a listen.
On the road to California
White Winter Hymnal
Reba and I have been frequenting Recycled Reads, a local used book store that sells retired books from the Austin Free Public Library. Most of the books are $1 and they have a great antique book section, where I found what’s featured in the picture there; a near mint first edition of the Grapes of Wrath. It was actually sitting in the same place on the shelf as that copy of “The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan” from a couple of posts down.
I’ve completely forgotten the name of the joint, but last week Rebacheep and I found another gem off of Congress in Austin, a little hole in the wall record store in the someone’s basement where I found this:
… which I must say… is my new favorite album cover of all time, he’s got his hand on the bible by the way. He looks a little to homeschooled to have his own LP. The last title holder was Ted Nugent’s “Scream Dream” which hung on my bed room wall for the year before the move to Texas. On the back he was dressed as a Matador. There are too many talking points to cover as to why these are great, but you can see them for yourself.
