Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: December 2013

  • NOLA Photos up on Flickr.com

    Go here to see the NOLA photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/egschmidt/ An aside: Gaaaaaaaa … I hate flickr..I liked it fine until I tried to load a video. You’ll only see one video for NOLA, here, because as soon as I added it I lost my ability to log in to flickr.I hate flickr, or perhaps I hate…

  • Gary Uses His Fitness Ball

  • Merry christmas to all

  • Gary Finds This Ad Sexy

    This is an ad for my MS drug. Gary finds it sexy. I find it disturbing. Yesterday I posed with my pill in a similar manner and he did not find it sexy at all.

  • The Dogs of New Orleans

    Early Dogs. The first thing we saw when we rounded the corner on Bourbon was a muscular man, holding a rope, the two ends attached to two barrell-headed dogs. Take a pit bull, and double the size of its head. Big mean dog. Within one minute Gary had decided that man was a bouncer, and…

  • NOLA Last Day

    Required experiences: sazerac, city tour, parasol dance, beads Quote of the day: Gary: “I can’t see how we’re going to eat anything when we get back home. The food at home is awful.” Then the bread pudding came. “Even the raisins are better here.” “How do they do that?” “It’s not fair.” Another late morning,…

  • Weeping angel

  • Cemetery

  • NOLA Day Six

    Required experiences: streetcar, cemeteries, leaving the French Quarter. We only wanted to do one thing today: find the weeping angel tomb in the Metairie cemetery. (And it’s a good thing we didn’t want to eat, because all the food we tried today was inadequate. We had a muffin at a chain coffee shop, and though…

  • NOLA Day Five

    Required experiences: absinthe We had big plans for this day. You know how we like museums, and New Orleans has a good many museums. Doll House Museum Musee Conti Wax Museum Preservation Museum Pharmacy Museum The Presbytere Mardi Gras museum Louisiana State Museum Ogden Museum of Southern Art WW2 Museum The Backstreet Cultural Museum That’s…