Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2018

  • Canelé Cage Match

    Last Saturday I was full of the morning energy you get when you’ve been laid up all week and then you put on a bra and leave the house and go shopping. Then you trip over your feet at the grocery and land on your knees and then your chin and then your nose. Then…

  • Deep throat and now this.

    The search for D.B. Cooper: Investigators say they’ve confirmed skyjacker’s identity by decoding long-lost ‘confession’ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-search-for-db-cooper-investigators-say-theyve-confirmed-skyjackers-identity-by-decoding-long-lost-confession/ar-AAzi4Zb?li=BBnb7Kz ©

  • Anniversary Number 33

    Good God, I have had such a head cold. It lay me low all this week. Every time I tried to work I did something so stupid I had to take yet another sick day. And it all began last Thursday, my thirty-third wedding anniversary, when I foolishly shook hands with two strangers. Stranger 1:…

  • Love Is In the Air

    First, we were on the parking lot at the Home Deport hardware store and suddenly romantic music swelled in the distance. I thought the Chick-Fil-A might have to decided to start piping secular music outside its store, but then Gary pointed out the accordian busker in the middle of the parking lot. The middle of…

  • Two Updates Summer 2018

    Oil Painting (Click back in time to How to Oil Paint in 7 Steps.) Today, Gary paid me a compliment on my current oil paintings and I immediately went out and bought some professional equipment. I am happy that expensive brushes do not lose their bristles as fast as cheap, but given that they were…

  • Proofreading the Liner Notes Again

    I was listening to Lookin’ Up on the latest BNL CD, the delightfully-named Fake Nudes, when I heard the lyric: “I feel like a lightning strike / Every time I rock the mic.” This was about the hundredth time I’d heard that line, since I’m back to listening to only one song per CD on…