Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2019

  • This Week’s Mystery

    Last Saturday morning Gary read me the story of Everett Palmer Jr., the man who died in police custody and his body was missing the heart, lungs and throat. Before the end of the day that mystery was solved (evidently that’s standard procedure for the police autopsy: just take out your pertinent parts and send…

  • Impending Rally / Riot

    Game Six of the Stanley Cup Hockey Final is tonight, at the hockey venue in downtown Saint Louis, and everyone in Saint Louis* wants them to win this particular game because then they’d finally win the championship, and win it at home. They could win it in Game Seven, but then it would be in…

  • Rachel Whiteread Exhibit

    I won tickets to the Rachel Whiteread exhibit at the art museum. I wasn’t familiar with her work, but if I had been in London in late 1993 I would have heard about her. She became famous for filling an abandoned house with concrete, then tearing off the exterior of the house, revealing a cast…

  • Toto Fails Me

    The Toto toilet has been dependable (read: doesn’t clog) since last August when we met it and it became part of our family. Last week began with a four-day period of bowel inactivity. This is average. This is not cause for concern. It is well below my personal best of two weeks. However, when the…

  • TeddyJ Visitor

    Last week I was sitting in my pajamas, developing some on-line training for my job at TeddyJ, when the doorbell rang. I was wearing my pajamas, but a bra had come in the mail earlier and I had tried it on, and Gary was in the house snoring away at 2 pm, so I went…

  • Gary Mines His Subconscious

    As many of you know, my husband Gary is a master of lucid dreaming. I frequently wake him up in the morning, have a conversation with him, and then he goes back to the dream he was in and finishes the dream. I. Find. This. Freaky. Now, he has decided that instead of surfing his…

  • Opera Attire

    Kimono The Kimono selected for Rigoletto was the colorful one that prompted Gary to say, “You aren’t leaving the house in that, are you?” Gary hates everything wonderful, so I felt confident from that point on. I felt even more confident when a random woman said we looked lovely and asked Anne and I where…

  • Rigoletto With Spoilers

    Just stop here if you have tickets to Rigoletto. If you plan to see it later in life I am sure you’ll forget this blog post by then. I went to Wikipedia the afternoon before I went to see Rigoletto and my eyes went to the words “when his daughter is murdered.” Damn! Self-spoiled. I…

  • Chernobyl

    Has anyone else been watching Chernobyl on HBO? My god it is bleak. I had just finished Episode 4 when a friend commented that she had seen it through Episode 2, and, of course, she commented on the bleakness. I said, “You think Episode 2 is bleak? Episode 2 is a romp. Wait until you…

  • One More Opera Story Before We See the Next Opera

    I was in the lobby of the theater, admiring the effort people put into their attire for the opera, especially the two women in full-on ballgowns. One wore a silver ballgown: she had blonde hair, and she was followed by a brunette similarly dressed up. I nodded at the brunette and said, “Nice.” as if…