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Month: July 2019

  • Historic Village

    Because I am always distracted by the Butterfly House and the Carousel, I seem to have missed a fun activity in Faust Park — visiting the Historic Village. It is filled with Saint Louis historic homes, and on summer weekends, if the volunteers are so inclined, you will be welcomed by characters “inhabiting” the homes.…

  • BNL in Saint Louis 2019

    Nope, I did not go see Barenaked Ladies when they came to Saint Louis this summer. Why? Because they were only here for an hour to open for Hootie and the Blowfish, and it was hot, and all the good seats were sold out to all the Hootie fans. However, had I gone, I would…

  • Review: Stuber / The Farewell

    Two movies, two very different experiences =============================== I went to see Stuber with Gary, a buddy comedy about an Uber driver named Stu, which caused Gary to remarked that if he drove for Uber he would be Goober. It was very lightweight, but it made me laugh a few times. The dialog was repartee-paced banter…

  • Whole Foods

    This happened yesterday. I got in the car and pulled out the phone, because I wanted Siri to give me directions to the nearest Whole Foods, because they have the toddler-aged cheeses that I like — but I didn’t tell Siri that, I just said: “Hey Siri, give me directions to Whole Foods.” “Getting directions…

  • Post-Partum Opossum

    Oh, this poor girl. See how she’s having to straddle that pouch. Imagine: after carrying babies and then delivering babies, the babies crawl back up into your body and then weigh you down as you try to get some food. And you know they’re suckling at all twelve teats she has inside her pouch. They’re…

  • Reviews: The Art of Self Defense

    Gary and I went to see The Art of Self-Defense. They need a new genre for this movie. “Dark comedy” is not dark enough. Not even “Black comedy.” Perhaps “Comedy Noir” or “Hershey’s Special Dark Comedy.” Frankly, it is so dark you can’t really tell it’s a comedy until well into it. Then of course,…

  • A New Term For Me

    I heard a new term recently. In the TV movie Page Eight, Bill Nighy insisted he was not going to “throw a wobbly.” I sounds so much better to “throw a wobbly” than to “pitch a fit” or “have a cow”. And it seems our friends in the Southern Hemisphere have improved in that phrase,…

  • Finding your Drama Threshold

    I think everyone has a unique drama threshold: the level of drama you can tolerate in your life. My drama threshold is pretty high. I remember someone at work once sent me an email because she was concerned because I seemed to have a lot of drama in my life. It seemed she thought I…

  • Baby Feet Knock Offs

    I have little goat feet. I don’t moisturize, and I rarely wear shoes. My only foot care is to intermittently scrape off the calluses with a callus remover. That said, when I was giving myself facials for Opera Month, I picked up a Knock-off Chinese Foot Peel. It’s all the craze now: you soak your…

  • More Moon

    Last week was moon week! We landed two people on the moon fifty years ago. Did you hear? It was the only “first” we had in the space race. We dogged the Russians in every other achievement. I heard the phrase “the U.S. was the first to land two men on the moon and return…