Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2013

  • Strangest BNL Concert Ever

    This was the strangest BNL concert since the infamous Chicago concert when former-lead-singer Steve was “on cough medicine.” Normal BNL concert: The opening act is great, but not mind-blowing. This BNL concert The opener, Whitehorse, didn’t play their music so much as assembled their music live on stage. They did a lot of work stomping…

  • The Phone Scammers Have Gone Too Far

    Remember the phone scammers, the ones who call me with wrong number messages and they insist I call back? The Internet revealed they were a particularly hated group of cruise telemarketers. It would seem I’m a tough nut to crack, because they’ve escalated. Every day there’s a call. Once it was “You gotta call me…

  • A Video You Have To Watch Three Times

    Once, for the action. (Close the damn ad as soon as possible. It’s in the way. My ad wants to know if “He’s Cheating on You,” and that’s offensive.) Twice, to read the banner. Three times for the crawl at the bottom. BNL coming to town Friday! Eeee!

  • Bulletzzzzzzzz.

    I had a long week auditing a class, and I am exhausted from leaning forward and pretending to listen. Truly, I sprained my neck with the attentive posture. I capped off my draining training with a non-stop weekend. First, Gary took me and his tricky back out to see Gravity. I have no idea how…

  • Piñata

    Needs some tweaks to be more scientifically accurate.

  • Brief Party Update

    Papier Mache is hard. (That’s how Martha Stewart spells it, people. Maybe that’s my problem.) I have encountered indestructible piñatas. I wanted my piñata to break at some point, but I ended up making it as thin as … paper. As thin as my own uterus. So, now the basic structure’s been dismantled and I’ve…