Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: September 2022

  • Not Enough Info for a Full Review: Excelsior

    Last week there was an online listening party for the new Steven Page album, Excelsior. I believe it’s out today. That was a new experience for me — getting to hear the music before it comes out. But, with that, you give up something else: the liner notes. I feel the best part of new…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 9/29

    This week the third dog went from this: … to this.

  • Candy Corn Recall

    I have been preparing for this all my life. Here I am, with the egg intolerance, but I wisely thought ahead and developed an aversion to Candy Corn. Candy Corn Recall Over Potentially Deadly Egg Mishap

  • Agile Artemis

    Well, I see NASA has delayed the Artemis launch again, this time because a hurricane is coming. Did they not watch the Gregory Peck movie Marooned? Do they not know it is possible to launch a space rocket during a hurricane? You just have to wait for the eye and yell “go” a lot. Speaking…

  • Forgetful

    I was asked to give a status on my current work projects. These are my thoughts, in order: Well I had a meeting yesterday. What was it? It was for that project with that woman with the tall hair. The Doomed Project. What’s the actual name of the project? What’s the status of that project?…

  • Big Slide

    The pebble-dash elementary (Graham elementary, corner of Graham and 270, I need to drive by and see if it still exists) made me think of other dangerous buildings of my youth. The most dangerous was the Catholic church we briefly attended when we first came to Saint Louis after the divorce, before they discovered the…

  • Pebbledash

    I was watching the most recent episode of The Great British Baking Show, in which people are tasked with portraying their childhood homes in cake, and they joked there might be a lot of buildings covered in “pebble-dash.” I looked up the term immediately, as I do so often during the Baking Show, and saw…

  • Zen of the Landline Number

    It has now been since 18 business days since the twenty-fifth of August in this the Year of Our Lord 2022. I still cannot get incoming calls on the telephone number I have had since the Year of Our Lord 1985. I have no boots, and the road disappears into a frozen blankness. I am…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 9/22

    This week my brother’s third dog went from this: … to this. The dog’s face can’t match the carpet that exactly: it looks like he has holes.

  • Elvis! Elvis! Elvis!

    Three Elvis-related movie reviews in one. Movie 1: Elvis (2022, the Baz Luhrmann version) We started our Elvis evening with the recent biopic. I did love how inventive the direction was. So fanciful. I wished they had warned me that the Young Elvis was not dubbed but old Elvis was. It was distracting, when you…