Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2019

  • How Did I Miss This Part 1: Buckley/Vidal Debates

    Twice in the last day I have encountered topics where I thought I knew the salient points, and I did, but somehow the most salient points have escaped me. First, I sat Gary down and we watched the documentary The Best of Enemies, about the debates between Gore Vidal and Willam F. Buckley. I felt…

  • Avengers

    I’m not a big fan of Marvel movies. Some are charming (first Guardians of the Galaxy), some are pointless (Ant Man and the Wasp). The worst thing is that I can’t hop up and pee as soon as they’re over: I have to stay for any extended scenes. I am a big fan of hype…

  • Patton Oswalt: Review

    We went to see Patton Oswalt, finally, at the Saint Charles Family Arena. Sigh. I feel like Patton Oswalt personally thinks I am too white, too conservative, too rural. Why do I think this? Because ….

  • Rocks

    Here’s a little detail of some landscaping I did in my front yard. I want to curtail the creeping of the Creeping Jenny, so I’m testing to see if it can jump across rocks. This will make my friends at TeddyJ laugh, because it’s an obvious homage to the lovely landscaping at TeddyJ, shown here:…

  • Bath Face Done

    Gary in Bath is as done as it is going to get. From photo: … to this: … then this: … and I’m stopping at this: I’m done because it’s going backward, and the glasses are all wrong now, and the lenses are two different sizes and yes, it’s time for this one to just…

  • Shazam

    We went to see Shazam last weekend. This isn’t about that. (Well, a little about that (no spoilers): Anyway, we got to the theater for the 9 a.m. $5 show, which was about half-full. And the screen was dark. “Well that’s odd,” I thought, “There’s usually something on the screen all the time, like movie…

  • Sheets

    I was cleaning out my linen closet, and I found the light brown art nouveau patterned sheets that I used on my twin bed the one semester I spent away in college. I have not used those sheets since 1981. The dorm bed was the last twin I was in until I got the guest…

  • Best Cheese Ever

    Cheese. Chewy creamy cheese. Very tasty for mold. Comes in a variety of textures and flavors. What is better than cheese? Think about it … Yes. Fried cheese. I’m not talking about deep fried cheese. I mean take the raw cheese and fry it up in a skillet. You say no? You say, “No, the…

  • Snare Drum Revisited

    Well, the gynecologist explained the snare drum perpetually playing in my pelvis: benign fasciculations. Everyone’s had an eyelid twitch: these are pelvic eyelid twitches. And like an eyelid twitch, anxiety can set them off. I don’t remember any anxiety, but I think my anxiety awareness is defective. Doctors keep telling me I have anxiety. I…

  • Electrical Outlets of the Semi-Rich and Almost Famous

    In my teens I cleaned for some of the Saint Louis near-rich and near-famous. Not well-off enough to have both a staff and backup staff, but well off enough to hire our team of maids (who arrived in a Cadillac) when the housekeeper took vacation. For the most part they weren’t big names, more like…