Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: September 2021

  • Maybe / Perhaps

    I popped into a Zoom Meeting late, just as someone said, “Oh, so Ellen’s not being snarky with this spreadsheet entry,” surprised that in this one instance I was sincere. It made me think I need to dial back my snark, and then I thought, “No, they should be able identify when I am sincere…

  • Beatles

    I have this theory that every person my age has heard every single Beatles song. Perhaps some we’ve heard just once, like You Know My Name Look Up My Number. But we’ve heard every one, somewhere. This is why I was surprised to hear of an entire Beatles album I’d never heard of before. Beatles:…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Beating it Into Submission

    Well, I was making a summary of what I have accomplished so far, and I discovered two things: It took me half a day to hammer the twist out and then back in again. Everything fits logically now, but it probably requires some explanation that will slow things down. On top of that, I have…

  • New Protests

    I was utterly unprepared for the January 6 protest/uprising/insurrection. (I encourage you to pick your noun. I would say the idiots outside on the lawn were protesting. the idiots on the steps beating police officers were criminals, and as for the idiots inside, saying they were insurrectionists gives them too much credibility. Idiots inside admiring…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 9/16

    This week the sundials went from this: … and then I taped it up to be able to flick the rock speckles on with a toothbrush … … and then I added all the other details except for the sundials themselves, and then the glaze for the color of the light. Gary noticed the two…

  • Two Cicadas

    The annual fall cicadas emerged, lived, and died by the time I noticed. These aren’t the ones that go dormant for 17 years, or the ones that they used to make my old drug Gilenya, or the Zombie cicadas (or, as this article calls them, the flying salt shakers of death). No, these are the…

  • “For You”

    Check out the suggested news stories under the “For You” section in my iPad news feed. Notice a trend? Dead kid.Almost dead kid.Dead kids. All from People Magazine. I don’t believe I have read any news stories about dead kids recently, from People Magazine or not. Have I? If I did, they didn’t stick with…

  • Commentaries

    Since the first days of DVDs, Gary has stoutly refused to watch the commentary track. If I try to watch the commentary he leaves the room in protest. I can’t tell you why. No, it can’t be that last one — he gobbles up all those “Making of” documentaries. In fact, he has rediscovered his…

  • Sports bra

    The sports bra that I bought specifically for the sport of Making Zoom Calls has arrived. This is how it was presented on Amazon. I don’t know what dainty sport that women is participating in that would require a bra for those chicken cutlets. Well, that’s not fair. Maybe she’s a marathon runner and any…

  • 9/11 2021

    If I wanted my blog to feel old, I would say, “You had a Nokia cell phone, and you are only five years younger than the war in Afghanistan.” This blog is so old (how old is it (she said like an old person who remember Johnny Carson)) “… it is so old it only…