Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2016

  • It Lives

    *coughs* *stirs* *looks about* Last Tuesday I thought I was well enough to go in to work, and my coworkers set me straight. In addition, enough people looked at me and said, “Have you seen a doctor?” that I made an appointment. One Z-pack and a wee vial of eye drops later and I am…

  • Weeeeiiiineer

    i just watched the documentary Weiner on Showtime. Wow. I’d like to tell Anthony Weiner: as a politician, saying you have a blind spot about the sexting is like being a nuclear physicist and saying you have a blind spot about long division. Or being a brilliant doctor who doesn’t take a client history. Or…

  • Pop Culture Symphony: Our New Thing

    Every once in a while TeddyJ throws free stuff at us, and that’s why earlier this month TeddyJ sent us to the Saint Louis Symphony (classic!) to hear the Music of Michael Jackson (pop!).The symphony backed up a Michael Jackson impersonator. Vocally, he was uncanny, but physically he would have been better as a Ben…

  • This Stuff Happens When You’re Sick

    I’m sick. Thankfully, this sickness isn’t in my chest, or my digestion. I think the day I took the photo it was in my nose. Maybe a little in my eyes. It’s now full-blown conjunctivitis and it’s in my ears, too. My left ear is filled with sounds of the ocean, like I have a…

  • They Say Pets Resemble Their Owners

    A few nights ago, Gary was posting political screeds on his iPad at 2:30 in the morning, as is his wont, when he heard raccoons shrieking and chattering right outside the bedroom window. He checked and yes, the poor babies has eaten all the food he’d given them. Like a good raccoon slave he was…