I wanted to try out my new camera in different situations today, so I drove down into Dallas. I was hoping to catch some in congruent shots of snow on the familiar landmarks that are usually bathed in sun.. but most of the snow had already been cleared away from roads and walkways. Instead I got a…
Author: rika9
I like video games, clothes, rock n roll, art, and generally trying to be a vagabond.
Marketing producer for Gearbox Software, but all opinions are my own.
Christmas Eve in Pictures
Yesterday, on Christmas Eve, I took a photo every hour, for every hour I was awake. I was hoping to capture the story of the day, and interested in seeing if the pictures would tell me anything about my day that I didn’t already know. In the end, I found out that my day is…
And Then One Day I Shaved Part of my Head…
Yesterday I got the side of my head shaved. I felt like I’d gotten a little stale in my hair style choices, and color wasn’t giving me a rush anymore.. so I cut some off. I hate to be the kind of person who puts a lot of symbolic value into hair, but I…
Will You Take Me Home? Deals That Weren’t Meant for Me – Black No. 1 at JCP Clearance.
Sometimes when I’m shopping, I see something that is an awesome deal, but its not perfect for me. It might be the wrong size, or a cut that isn’t flattering on me, or just not right for my life. I always feel a compulsive desire to help these lonely items find their perfect homes.. but I’m not…
Tamaryn with Boy Friend at Club Dada
Have you ever gone to a show, and looked around to see that the audience is 99% female? Have you ever then looked around and realized that a too-high-for-coincidence percentage of them are wearing combat boots, or sporting either edgy overstyled hair in varying degrees of not meant to be flattering or long wild unbrushed…
Welcome to my Time Warp, Have a Hot Pumpkin Chocolate
I have so many things in my backlog that I have given up on ever posting, due to the lack of immediacy I’m left with after having let them sit so long. But I’ve decided to give up-to-the-minute-ness the finger, and start posting the backlog anyway, timeliness be damned. In the interest of that, here’s…
PC Builds and Painting Nails
Yesterday, I had the day off and intended to go Christmas shopping and also pretend that I was one of.. those girls that hang out at Northpark drinking Starbucks and you know, affording things. Instead, I spent all day fixing Thom’s new PC which did not work when it was put together the night before….
Travel Makeover – On The Train to Austin, Blue Eyeliner
I’m not really good at doing makeup, but I am good at doing makeup on trains and planes and roadtrips. I think I’m best with limited tools. I’m on Amtrak to Austin to see Beachhouse and The Walkmen at Stubbs. Everything I used: -A kit from Kristen Colaneri’s line that I got forever ago for…
Music I Used to Like.
An album doesn’t have to be a good album for it to mean something to you. It doesn’t always take greatness. At a point in time, somewhere between gaining my own consciousness and gaining my own autonomy, Everclear’s Sparkle and Fade album really spoke to me. I’ve listened to it recently, out of curiosity. While…
Pictures About Cars and Driving
I really do have a thing about cars and driving. I’ve been known to make cracks about The Beach Boys writing more songs about cars than girls, but I am fully aware of the degree of which I get swept up in the mythology of a car. Its not the status symbol of a car;…
The Maxim Gamer Girl Contest and Why ITS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT
When I was modeling, the one thing about it that really nagged at me was that there were very few pictures taken of me as myself. (If this is a revelation to you, I used to model, I don’t anymore, I quit doing it to do something else, and in the way of life, it…
Rika Confesses to Almost All of It 