Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: July 2011

  • In Which I Am Fully Aware of My Limitations

    A Cooking Slump on the horizon. I planned to make some risotto with some of the remaining Rice Pudding rice. Here is where it went off the rails: I saw Caroline leaving TeddyJ with some fried chicken. Therefore, I must have fried chicken, and I rationalized it by saying (stifle your laughter), “I can take…

  • Science Fiction

    Here’s a sci-fi plot. If the terrorists really wanted to win, all they would have to do is add a chemical to … not the water supply …but to the ink supplies for Bic. It would have to be some chemical that would have a delayed reaction, so that one day all the pens would…

  • Hazard to Ya Booty / Maury

    After this I’ll shut up about the BNL concert. (Most fun I’ve had in weeks. Sigh.) There were two opening acts. I only caught a little of the first: a comedian. Perhaps. He was not making the crowd laugh. Picture a comic who gets uncomfortable laughs in a tiny club speaking in generalities about all…

  • UPDATED: Banter (Just BEARS. With documentation. SHEESH.)

    Other bands come to Saint Louis. Here is their banter: “Hello, Saint Louis!” “Go Cards” “I love Budweiser. Really. It’s my favorite beer.” “I remember playing the Kiel Opera House in this town.” (They are not playing the Opera House.) “I went for a walk before the show and saw Blueberry Hill.” (They are playing…

  • Rachel and Ed

    This is the first in a series of blog posts about the BNL concert, since it is the only thing of note that I have done in a month. So, my sister and brother-in-law not only scored us VIP seats at the concert; the package included free parking, a backstage area with huge cooling fans,…

  • Rachel from the cruise just met Ed

  • Excited!

    EEee! I’m going to a Barenaked Ladies CONCERT! Oh, I know. I’ve been before. But still, it’s exciting. By their presence in Saint Louis I’m guessing they aren’t attending ex-singer Steven Page’s wedding, purported to be today. Perhaps they are. Hard to say. Similarly, maybe Amy WInehouse slipped in the shower. Additionally, maybe we will…

  • Don’t you wonder how this person feels about toilet brushes?

  • If They Do It Again I Will Secede

    I have been following the political puppet show closely, because my brother is truly concerned the government will shut down, he won’t get his disability check, his healthcare will be cut off, he will be homeless and take to the drink again. The sorry thing is that we both remember when this happened before in…

  • Heatbound!

    Every year, around late November, Mom would go to the Sams and stock up on fluids, soups, bagels, and such. We’d come home, freeze and store all the comestibles, and she’d declare herself “at home for the duration.” Socked in for winter. And, truly, she did not set foot outside of the house until April.…