Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2011

  • Robert Preston

    Our PBS station showed “The Music Man” over the weekend. Best musical ever, due largely to Robert Preston who played Prof. Harold Hill and Meredith Wilson, who wrote the songs. Robert Preston: adorable. Matthew Broderick? No. I did not see one impish grin out of him. In fact, not a single person I saw in…

  • Peculiar Bits of Information

    Farmer’s Almanac Last month, a friend told me it had been predicted that there would be snow by Halloween this year. “Oh, who says?” I sneered. “Farmer’s Almanac.” I thought it was odd she had gone to Princeton and yet believed in the Farmer’s Almanac. I remember seeing the Old Farmer’s Almanac at my grandparent’s…

  • This Just In: After Oakland, Denver

    [SPOILER: This post isn’t going to go the way you think it is. ] CNN is now reporting the police are shooting pepper spray and mace at the Occupy Denver protest, precipitated when protestors wanted to “get inside the capitol.” This is on top of the Oakland incident when police fired tear gas canisters at…

  • I Am As Tired As If I Had Played Ball Myself

    During one of the World Series in the 1980s, Mom said it was peculiar that “nowadays” the World Series always seemed to take seven games, whereas it never had before. In fact, she seemed to think it was deliberate. The fix was in, maximized for entertainment value and advertising dollars. I thought of that in…

  • Steve Jobs, Soul Sibling

    I got a grudging email from Gary this morning. “Steve Jobs soaked his feet in the office toilet. : ) I guess you are in good company, although in his bio this wasn’t reported as being one of his better ideas.” As you are aware, I have been know to use the toilet as a…

  • TiVo Hoarding

    I’m one of those people who never has more than ten messages in my main work inbox. They get filed or deleted. I usually have no more than four things sitting on my TiVo. Right now I have two screens worth of stuff on my TiVo and it is causing more guilt than a stack…

  • Fridays fortune cookie I swear to God

  • Bullets like Fastballs

    How can I not have time to blog on a weekend? Both days I slept till 2. I thought cutting down on the pills would fix this. I also thought it would fix my sex drive, and short of giving me a week of astonishingly perverted dreams it did not. (People / animal three-ways. With…

  • The Prettiest Plate of Food I Have Ever Seen

    It is the mango asparagus chicken at House of Wong. Oh and they had a Peking duck special that restored my faith in the ducks of Peking. And my fortune cookie told me to eat more fruits and VEGETABLES. Freaky.

  • Revealing Lunch

    At lunch, I mentioned I had read on Cracked.com that many people suffer from auditory hallucinations. (If you go to the link, it’s a few paragraphs in to the #1 Horrific Way Your Brain Can Turn On You Without Warning.) I’ve always assumed this happens to everyone. However, the article says “the most common [is]…