Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2023

  • The Car Hunt: the Deed is Done

    Gary was very sad that only one bot contacted him, and it told him he needed to call the two dealers he had selected online. He complained to me that the dealers knew he was old, and that’s why they weren’t calling him and looking for his electric car business. It was pitiful. I puffed…

  • The Car Hunt Continues: Click

    Gary has gone back to his first love, the Chevy Bolt. (New for this final year with fewer car fires.) And now that he has embraced ordering a car on-line, he called me over so that we could place the order “together.” All that meant was that he asked if the seat color was acceptable.…

  • Evusheld is Out

    Well, I was hoping that I would get another dose of the Evusheld antibodies before summer, especially because I thought any next dose might protect against Omicron and all the variants after. Nope. Looks like they’re just giving up. Those new variants account for over 90% of new cases now, so Evusheld is off the…

  • The Car Hunt Continues, Same as it Ever Was

    So, finally: progress! Gary acknowledged that it would be better to order a car and have it built rather than rely on the scant electric vehicles dealers keep in their lots. He keeps finding great cars that are gone the next day, and he suspects it’s all a come-on. So his new plan was to…

  • A Brief Ill-Tempered Review: Weird

    Somehow, the Weird Al Yankovich biography Weird encapsulated everything else I saw last week. Funny like The Menu, musical like Cyrano would have liked to be, and even self-referential like Tell Me Who I Am and The Voyeur. And funny. I laughed out loud at least eight times. Or, perhaps that was just because I…

  • Thursday Paint Progress: 1/26

    This week the sea went from this: … to this. I took too much green out of the second mountain, but I can put that back.

  • A Brief Ill-Tempered Review: Voyeur

    Voyeur is another documentary, this one about writer Gay Talese and his efforts to write a factual book. I can never remember who Gay Talese is because he is filed under writers my Dad liked, subcategory odd names: Gay, Gore, Studs. It’s one of those documentaries where you wonder, “At what point did they decide…

  • A Brief Ill-Tempered Review: The Menu

    This was a first class satire. The Menu was vicious and delightful. I ended up laughing, screaming, horrified, delighted, hungry. And it builds like crazy. Just keeps getting better and better. Highly recommend.

  • A Brief Ill-Tempered Review: Tell Me Who I Am

    I am torn about Tell Me Who I Am: I am happy to have watched it and guilty and ashamed to have watched it. Incidentally, this is the perfect reaction to this movie. It’s a documentary, and while I don’t want any spoilers, really, there are no spoilers. That’s another cryptic statement that only makes…

  • A Brief Ill-Tempered Review: Cyrano

    This movie began with a good idea: cast Peter Dinklage as Cyrano de Bergerac. And then somewhere it went off the rails. (Wheels fell off, kangaroo in the paddock). They had to edit it to suit a small person without a big nose, then they edited it beyond all comprehension, then (prepare yourself) they made…