Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2023

  • Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man: Toy Review

    Sex toy review. Because we haven’t done that for a while. So with this new increase in activity I was genuinely concerned about damaging my favorite body part. Worried I was wearing it down from a nub into a nothing. That’s why I decided to try this Puff device, which employs a pull technique instead…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/29

    I was at the dentist today, and showed them my recently rediscovered photo of 1983 Gary. (And yes, then I made a guttural noise.) I haven’t done anything in the Venetian style for a while, where you make a black and white painting and then glaze the top layer with color. This seemed like a…

  • Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man: Porn Twin

    Porn (ethically-sourced, consensual and lord-so-out-of-character porn) seems to have odd effects on me. If it isn’t making me sleepy from the repetition, it makes me nostalgic. “I remember that,” I think, “I remember doing that back in the day.” I began to notice that one particular male porn star made me … extra nostalgic. “What…

  • A Review: Queen Charlotte [SPOILER]

    I wasn’t in the tank for Queen Charlotte at first. My biggest complaint was that it departed from season one of Bridgerton in that we didn’t get the refreshing sex scenes with a beautifully clothed woman and an utterly naked man. So refreshing. In fact, I wasn’t in the tank for Queen Charlotte until the…

  • Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man: Freaky Friday Sunday

    I am sorry to keep going on about this, but I feel obliged to share my experience now that I am living the plot of Freaky Friday. Only I’m not swapping bodies with my mom, but with the horniest 20 year old guy who ever horned. (You know, any time I thought of people with…

  • TWIL: Color Vision

    The hook: a report on BBC news. This week I learned that when you are running out of oxygen, the first thing that happens is you lose your sense of color vision. This is a screen grab of the expert telling me that factoid, not an example of you losing your color vision. So I…

  • Skunk 2023

    We haven’t had a skunk in our backyard for two years. I assume they were all living under a neighbor’s house and were exterminated. Justifiable. Skunks are pretty to us but a pest to the rest of the world. That’s why I was surprised to see this old friend. Check him out; it’s Glamour Skunk.…

  • Dave Dust

    I distributed my dead brother Dave’s cremated remains this past weekend. Half of his ashes went to the cemetery, where I spread a thin layer over the family plot, like I did with Mom. The other half joined the rest of Mom and Dad’s ashes in my back garden. I dug a hole in the…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/22

    This week the golden sky went from this: … to this: The original was this, but I wasn’t aiming for a replica.

  • Opera Review: Cosi Fan Tutte

    Well, this one was just wonderful. During the intermission all the ladies in the restroom line were full of praise. “This is SO much better than the one I saw in Prague.” “I saw it at the Met and it was just dark. This one’s funny!” “The only other one I saw was so cynical.…