Fun Fotos with Free Programs

Adobe Photoshop is some $$$ shit. I've been exploring my alternatives (key requirement: free download) with no success. However, today I did find Paintbrush-- a PC-turned-Mac-User's delight! In a nostalgic tribute to the "Paint" feature from "Accessories," Paintbrush let's you do a TON of super simple Microsoft things to your photos, like drawing on them with neon colors!

The collage feature with photos from my 2006 trip to Tijuana:

Painting on pictures! Triana says:

Nice Kenny Rogers Tees & Moustaches. Did You Guys Play South By This Year?

Esteban Hernandez: My friend Steven is up-and-coming on the Austin stand up scene. We're both moving to LA in a few weeks, so here's a chance to catch his early stuff before he becomes the next George Lopez (because he's Mexican... get it??)!

Back in Texas

Here's what I did this afternoon:

Ray: Summer Boyfriend from Hannah Kitziger on Vimeo.

Baby bro rulez!

Best Meals of NYC Summer

One complaint I have about my BlackBerry is its limited memory for mobile photos. As I sit in the Atlanta Airport waiting for my transfer flight to Dallas, I've been relocating my phone pics to my computer. Doing this has brought me to the realization that I take a lot of pictures of my food! Here are some NYC highlights:

Nitta Nitta - Brooklyn - Dinner - Pesto Asparagus, fried mac'n cheese, chorizo mashed sweet potatoes.

The Extra Virgin - West Village - Brunch - Scrambled eggs, tomatoes, pesto, chorizo, salsa, cilantro.

Westville West - West Village - Lunch - Veggie burger w/ cheddar cheese & beet, goat cheese salad

Il Cortile - Little Italy - Dinner - Pesto Gnocchi

The Dumpling Man - East Village - Steamed chicken dumplings with hot monster sauce

Empenada Mama - Theater District - Dinner - Guacamole

Gusto Organics - West Village - Dinner - Beet, goat cheese salad

Nathan's Famous - Coney Island - Lunch - Dog w/ peppers'n onions

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

My friends. Doodling with Gelli Rolls. Taking pictures with my mobile. PHOTO BOOTHS!!! Enjoy these high quality photographs captured from my plog (paper log/journal as opposed to this web log).

1: Elizabeth Watson, McCall Cunningham & Me (2008 - The Dirty Dog, Austin) 2: Audrey Priest, Hayley Vaughan & Me (2007 - Billy Bob's, Fort Worth) 3: Liz Sowa, Rayne Housey, Caitlin Smith & Me (2002 - The Palace Clearview, New Orleans)

1: Caroline Adams, Audrey Priest & Me (2010 - Barton Creek, Austin) 2/3: Caroline Adams, Hannah Heighten, Ray Kitziger, Mary Margaret Shamburger, Julia Kitziger & Me (2009 - HP Baccalaureate, Dallas)

Photo booths can turn any old BFFA to a real life BFFENMWTFHANMHFAWA. It's proven.

CRUNK is the past tense conjugation of CRANK

For some reason this video won't embed. But if you want to see what I do everyday and you're interested in the lingustic history behind Lil Jon's signature word, click THIS.

Pandora is stalking my life.

My roommate Callie and I use the occasional morning before work to pretend we're Broadway starlets-- singing (and sometimes acting out?) various show tunes. Her VERY favorite to perform is "I'll Cover You" from RENT (definitely my least favorite from the entire RENT offertory, however, I've agreed to indulge her in this song as long as I get to play Mark during "La Vie Boheme"-- TO ABSOLUT, TO CHOICE, TO THE VILLAGE VOICE -- I digress).

I spend a considerable time at work creating and crafting the perfect Pandora stations, and my latest masterpiece is a little something I like to call "Theatricality" (taken from the title of a Glee episode), which is a wonderful mixture of Broadway tunes, Glee songs, and classic Disney music. Pandora has this new nifty pop-up that tells you when your friends like the same stuff you're listening to. FIRST element in this unsolved mystery: I haven't linked my Facebook and Pandora, so HOW do they know who I'm friends with?

Yesterday, a pop-up appears telling me that Callie Porter "likes" "I'll Cover You" - I'm thinking "Crazy! Callie DOES love that song!" When I casually mentioned this to her later, she is baffled. She doesn't have Pandora. She doesn't have Hype Machine (not that she would be downloading show tunes from hypem anyways!). She doesn't have ANYTHING about RENT written on Facebook. Hasn't downloaded the songs on iTunes. Never mentioned on Twitter. (Side note: I'm officially a media SLUT.) WHAT THE DEALIO?!!

(I apologize for the quality of this image, as my work computer is a PC so no screen caps-- how archaic!)

I refuse to believe this is a random coincidence. Pandora is stalking my life. I'm sending out an SOS to the cyber world: Does ANYONE know how they get this info?? Am I overlooking some simple element? Help a girl out!