Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2008

  • Critics Choice Awards

    I’ve watched this four times now, and it still delights me. Because it has so many things I love: Eddie IzzardAwards ShowsDocumentariesSarcasm And if you aren’t going to click the YouTube player, at least appreciate this quote: “Okey dokey from WGA came during teatime, so some speechy talk not so good as other mans. This…

  • Awwwwww…reporters in luuuuv

    Awwwwww…reporters in luuuuv

    I heard Saturday that John King and Dana Bush from CNN… …are engaged. So sweet! Especially since I used a good part of Saturday watching John King introduce her as “our Dana Bash” without a hint of passion or irony.

  • A Feel-Bad Movie

    Tonight Gary and I discussed the movie selections on the TiVo. “Ellen … what is Sophie’s Choice doing on the TiVo?”“It’s supposed to be a really good movie. I’m saving it.”“So can we watch it tonight?”“No, I don’t feel like a depressing movie tonight.”“Okay…well, there’s Midnight Cowboy?““Neh. Downer.”“Oh, here we go! Happy Feet is on…

  • Spartacus Watches CNN

    Today was spent doing some all-day bed-surfing. Any hope for children is lost because my groin has a laptop radiation burn. I stayed in bed surfing for fellow FTY720 eaters who might report similar side effects – and then I stopped. Because really, it kind of goes against the spirit of a double-blind trial to…

  • Bleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaah

    Bleeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh. I’ve heard they doctor placebos now so that they give side effects just like the real drug. If this is a placebo I will be forced to go to Switzerland and kick the shit out of the Novartis people.

  • Nude Blondes with Shedding Dogs Who Need Viagra / Levitra / Cilais!

    I was dorking around on Typepad tonight after watching you lucky Iowa Caucusers, and I clicked on a new page: Manage / List Trackbacks / Show SPAM (!) Unbeknownst to me, over the past year spammers have been hurling themselves in vain at my blog. And Typepad has been there protecting me. Protecting me from…

  • For This He Went to Medical School

    I slept through the first four hours of my first dose monitoring, so I am completely convinced I am on the placebo. I would say I slept soundly, except the cardiologist assigned to monitor me kept coming in and taking my blood pressure every hour. At noon he told me that they would be getting…

  • Poor Planning

    I need to be at Big Barnes downtown by 7:30 on the very first day Highway 40 is closed. (Non St. Louisans – City Planners in their wisdom are closing all lanes of the major highway that cuts east/west. Major highway. MAJOR. Know as “Highway Farty” to residents, not because we’re being sarcastic but because…

  • Huh – What Happened in 2007?

    2007 Recap The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The estate still hasn’t been settled. Not till March! The neighbor’s house is still empty, but the grass is trimmed. The More Things Stay the Same, the More They Change: Mom started out the year sick with spells. She had weakness and tremors.…