Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2010

  • Salty Chocolate: A Partial Review, by Gary

    Here’s the salted chocolate I bought last week from an excellent online establishment based in Portland. I looked at the spread. “That is some sophisticated chocolate,” I said. “But how will I know which flavor is which?” My flavors were: Vosges Barcelona Exotic Candy Bar ($7.45)Pack of 6 Dark Salted Chocolates ($19.95)Domori D-Fusion Milk Chocolate…

  • Mother’s Day

    Odd things happened on Mother’s Day. 1. I was not allowed to drive with Gary. There was not enough room for me in the Honda Fit after he put in all the petunias and presents. I had to take my own car. No one saw this as strange. 2. Since I had my own car…

  • Thrill of Victory

    Friday night, Family #4 (of the “Mouse” races) was kind enough to include me on their trivia team. Our team didn’t just win, we won as if we were whispered answers by the Trivia Gods. The last round was particularly satisfying: all the questions were hard, we answered with guesses, and almost all the guesses…

  • My New Drug

    Meet my new love. I am up to two of these caffeine rockets a day. And I became addicted before I ever noticed that the mocha is just a gateway drug, a delivery system for the guarana. I don’t know what guarana does, or what this other thing, “taurine” does, but it makes me happy.…

  • I am a Card-Carrying Member of the Delayed Adolescence Society

    Shut your face. I love the band Barenaked Ladies to such a degree that I joined the Ladies Room fan club five years ago. I joined after it became free, and here is why:Originally: “Call 1-800-999-9999 to join The Ladies Room for only $35!” And later: “The Ladies Room is FREE! Just log in to…

  • Scandal in Saint Louis

    Saint Louis sex blogger A Beautiful Kind has been fired. She was outed by her boss, her a non-profit director who strangely remains anonymous. I would link to A Beautiful Kind, but I understand her site is down. I’ve been to her site before. Sex and Saint Louis? Of course I was there. However, when…

  • Pissy Pouty Pirate Post

    Lunch talk turned today to the Pirates exhibit at the Science Center and what a co-worker thought of it. He said, “I had to remind my nephew that: pirates? Not really good people.” But we love pirates, don’t we? We love them because they are rule-breakers, rogues, they do what we wish we could.That’s what…

  • Wanton Bragging

    My latest bonnet-bee is healthcare, and the arguments against which are essentially, “I got mine, I worked hard for mine, you shouldn’t get yours for free.” This would be like me saying, “I had to pay a 22% interest rate the first five years of my mortgage, then 13% the rest, now that my house…

  • Drama

    Here was my day. Morning, noon, afternoon: Study for my big test in June. 4 to 7: Kentucky Derby, pizza. 7 to 9: Wait for the damn correspondents dinner to begin on CNN, because I believed Don Lemon every time he said they would be back any minute with the President’s remarks. 9 to 9:30:…