Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2017

  • Busy Week: Doobie Brothers / Chicago Concert 2017

    That last Doobie Brothers / Chicago concert I went to was back in 2010 – seven years ago! I went back to read up on how I felt about the last one, and it appears that it was so hot that I took to my bed the next day. And, strangely, in 2010 I seem…

  • Busy Week: Pride Parade

    Every year for the past decade when the Pride Parade rolls around, I want to go, but then I think, “Since I’m not personally proud to BE gay, I’d only be going just to gawk at the fabulous gays, and that’s not kind.” Then I saw that TeddyJ as a company was marching in the…

  • Busy Week: Opera

    It was a busy week, what with the Doobie Brothers/Chicago concert Wednesday and the opera Friday and the Pride Parade Sunday. Let’s start with Friday. Anne planned the Opera evening, because she’s been to the opera several times before. I’ve only been once, with Mom, some time in the early seventies. It was in the…

  • Truth March

    Latest march? Truth March on June 3rd. (For some reason, I woke up with the urge to make a sign. Before you jump on me, that’s the way Thomas Jefferson spelled it in the Declaration of Independence. Evidently unalienable is not the same as inalienable, and Jefferson went with unalienable.) Speaking of urges, I didn’t…

  • Wonder Woman

    I did not like Wonder Woman. This follows my dislike of Mad Max: Fury Road, cementing me as a female chauvinist pig for not applauding kick-ass females. But actually, it follows my dislike of The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, You’ve Got Mail, and any other movie where the woman is…

  • Angel Food Cake

    A month or so ago I bought some cake flour and made this excellent black and white angel food cake. I thought, sure, it looks good, but let’s just see how it tastes. I cut into it … ah, people, it cut clean. It was not rubbery. I put the slice on my tongue. It…