Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: March 2021

  • The Nemesis Interrupts a Very Emotional Scene

    There’s a little more detail on the front, but Mom’s Storage Unit recently intruded into a very emotional scene in For All Mankind. Odd, none of my friends had a storage unit. You’d think they were everywhere the way they dress a scene.

  • Lack of Imagination

    In the last few months I have heard “No one could have imagined Americans would try to storm the Capitol.” Last year it was “No one could have imagined this global pandemic would have come out of nowhere.” Last decade it was “No one could have imagined Bear Stearns and the housing market would fail.”…

  • Mormon Murders

    I started watching the Netflix show Murder Among the Mormons. I didn’t know what to expect. And then, they said the word “salamander”. “This is about that salamander document nonsense!” I thought. “Juicy.” I remember the eighties when the Mormons were rocked by the salamander story. Almost forty years later, I recalled the basics of…

  • Sunrise vs Sunset

    I’m always flummoxed by the surveys that ask: “Which do you prefer, sunrise or sunset?” How is this even a question? I’ve never seen a spectaular sunrise, though I’ve seen them over Haleakala and the Grand Canyon. I see spectacular sunsets on the regular. This past year I’ve been in my kitchen at sunrise every…

  • Rewriting the Novel: the Accoutrements

    Some days I write for an hour and crank out three pages, some days after three hours I only have a paragraph. And, it’s not a particularly good paragraph. It seems futile. Oddly, some days I paint for an hour, and I feel great about myself, all confident, then I step back and it’s a…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 3/4

    This week the dog went from this: … to this: … and now I hate every part of it. The lips, the box, his back, and the blanket especially. And why is he lighter? I didn’t paint any of the dog but his lip. I really need to study how shades and colors influence each…

  • March 4th

    A dad joke from my Dad: “What is the army’s favorite day? March 4th.” Replace “army” with “militia”, and it still applies. Supposedly the Trump cult will be marching on Washington again, on March 4th, the day of the original inauguration, from back when people had to wait months to travel after the election in…

  • Masking Flavors

    I recently joined in to a Facebook conversation all about how we like our fast food. Do you get pickles on your cheeseburger, wasabi with your sushi, what do you get a pizzeria, etc. There was a definite trend to my answers. Cheeseburgers plain. Sushi plain. No extras. No mustard, ever. Because I still believe…

  • Every Year With this Birthday Month Nonsense!

    Ah, March is back, the month in which Gary has his birthday, and as it is his birthday month he gets everything he wants with no argument. I’m already doing everything except feed the raccoons and hit the Start button on the dishwasher. He has started a new thing, where he asks me to get…