Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2011

  • This is the Winter of Our Discontent

    I have two complaints today. CNN isn’t changing to Egypt time.I swear two hours ago I heard Anderson Cooper say, “The mass protest is scheduled to begin at daybreak today, just two short hours.” A few hours later I tune in and hear him say the exact same thing, on replay, because CNN says “The…

  • Offensive Commercial

    The TiVo has been protecting me from commercials, so I only saw this tonight during the SAG awards: A commercial for birth control that depicts a variety of women of childbearing age picking things out at a store stocked with items like “Trip to Paris” and “Buy a house” and A Stork Bearing a Baby.…

  • My Response Was “Thank You For the Blog Post”

    Gary and I were emailing back and forth Friday, since it’s BNL Cruise time of year. I was checking up on-line to see where we could eat by our hotel. Here is Gary’s response: I am interested in trying some food that we can’t get anywhere except Miami. I still remember the giant shrimp that…

  • Sympathy for the Devil

    This will ensure I am globally reviled. I feel sorry for this guy: I heard today that Jared Loughner, before he shot innocent people including a congresswoman and a nine-year old girl, went on-line to look up lethal injection. So, I suppose he knew he was going to die. He may have preferred “blue suicide,”…

  • Arch Grounds

    People of the World: the Saint Louis Arch is being spruced up. The Arch today: This is the view of the arch from downtown. To walk from downtown to the arch you have to take a hike over Highway 70. They courteously dug the highway under the street you would take to get to the…

  • The King’s Speech: A Review

    Acting: Tremendous! Directing: Great! Sets and Costumes: Superb! Music: Fabulous! Screenplay: (pained face…) Well, it was charming. British TV science fiction shows are charming too. But the screenplay simply wasn’t that wonderful. Screenplays adapted from history have one fatal flaw: everyone knows what’s going to happen. The Titanic is going to [SPOILER] sink. [END SPOILER]…

  • Usurpation

    Gary’s sister Sandy was in some distress this weekend over some decision her father was making. She was worked up enough to call Gary and tell him he should step in and take matters in hand, because he is … [snort] he is … [chokes] the “Head of the Family.” I mean, a) sister wives…

  • A Cooking Challenge

    Party in the house! DONNER party, that is. But before we eat each other, we can eat chicken broth, frozen peaches, and green beans. The Sinus mask in the upper right is not edible. As you can see, we’re in the last days of our grocery phase. The rat-roasting, pancakes for dinner phase. That’s a…

  • Say It Aint So, KO

    It’s three thirty in the morning and I can’t sleep. 1) I thought over fixing up Mom’s house. Now I am in the “Worried about asbestos, lead paint, and broken tile” stage of grief. 2) Dave called and said, “Breaking news, Keith Olbermann is quitting after the commercial break.” And then he did. I copy…

  • Babies. Why I Don’t Have Them.

    We continue to poke holes in Steve at work, hoping he will spill information about his impending baby. I asked if he would be putting the baby in the vegetable crisper and taking photos, because I LOVE photos like that. He said “No.” No explanation, by the way, just “No.” Very abrupt. As if it…