Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2011

  • Rally Squirrel: A History

    9 / 4 / 2007 Cardinals vs PhilliesSquirrel on field!Cards win Rally Squirrel enjoys a moment of fame. He strafes the Phillies dugout. His image is shown on the scoreboard. Buttons and shirts are made in his honor. 10 / 4 / 2011Cardinals vs PhilliesSquirrel on field!Cards lose … Rally squirrel has lost his magic?…

  • Geography to Blow Your Mind

    1. Denmark. Gary works by a lovely cafe called Pastries of Denmark. They do not sell danish. However, almost everything there IS a Danish pastry. 2. Maine. One place I’ve always wanted to visit is the rocky coast of Maine. Look at Maine there, up in the upper right. Compare it to Florida. It’s only…

  • Music Over the Horizon

    I only ventured into the heat for one band this summer, but now that it is fall and the 2011 debt is almost cleared up, Ticketmaster is my musical madam. “You like Guster, would you perhaps be interested in a little … Gin Blossoms?” She strokes a fan of Gin Blossoms tickets. I turn and…

  • What Passes for Polite Dinner Conversation

    I made this mistake after the Cowboy Mouth concert: I complained about a science fiction author I heard on NPR. Samuel R Delaney. The man’s name is Samuel R Delaney. I know the name now, but on Saturday I didn’t, so for ten minutes the conversation stopped dead while everyone but me sunk into their…

  • La la la.

    So Wednesday, after I got back from the urologist, I called Gary to give him the update. “I’ve got both kinds of incontinence, the urge incontinence and the stress incontinence.” (Silence.) He asked, “What does that mean?” “Well, it means I can’t get the surgery, for one thing, but I didn’t really want the surgery…

  • Cowboy mouth concert surprisingly ill-attended at 7:00

  • This is What I Love About Gary Today

    Look at that. Not just an eye bag, but a wrinkled eye bag. (This means I can let my eyes go now. Love it.)