Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2023

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/20

    This week the magenta sky went from this: … to this: I am losing sight of what I like about the original. I liked the flatness, and the luminous pink, and I’m not capturing either.

  • Coming Excitement

    This spring was going to be the Spring Awakening, in which I left the house for special events. I blew my first special event, a crawfish boil at Friend 2’s house, because I got the date wrong, so that was a bad start. All the other Special Events are in May – June, opera season.…

  • Adventure Dog

    Remember my brother’s dog Tickles? The one who carelessly ran off the day after Dave died? He is still with a foster family. The other dog, the pit bull mix, was adopted. Tickles, not so much. They’re still trying to place her. This is quite an effective portrait of Tickles below. I like everything about…

  • Latest Neuro Visit

    Last week’s visit to the neurologist provided some notable neurology news. We are not putting our faith in Evusheld: it is gone. Paxlovid is the new great hope. Supposedly when you catch Covid (and you will) if you take pains to get on Paxlovid as soon as you can, then there’s only a 10 percent…

  • New Name For Bob

    Remember Bob? Bob was the first new, full-price wig I ever got. I tried to debut Bob last year and people couldn’t handle it. I had to switch to the Chimera. The Chimera gave way to the Senior, and then the Senior had its trimester in the sun. Now it is time for the Return…

  • TWIL: Brown Anthrax

    The hook: D.A. Bragg, the district attorney prosecuting President Trump, has recently received envelopes containing white powder. “White Powder! Anthrax!” I thought, because I remember the 2001 Anthrax attacks. But here’s the thing I learned: A number of the anthrax envelopes in the famous 2001 attack didn’t contain white powder, but brown powder. It was…

  • Latex Paint Progress

    Twenty-five years ago Gary and I painted our great room wall a then-trendy shade of green. we had two ladders, and I painted the right half, he painted the left. He got just a bit of paint on the ceiling on the left side. Just in one spot. I know, because I stared at that…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/13

    This week the magenta sky went from this: … to this. Kind of interesting.

  • Last Gasp of the Demographics

    I remember when I had the tiVo. It would give you suggestions based on every show you said you liked, whereas Netflix makes suggestions based on only one specific show. “Because you watched one episode of The Unxplained here are fifty shows centering on fairies.” I also remember that one time I got sick of…

  • TWIL: Holy Money

    The hook: I read something about a Mormon Church financial scandal, and I wondered if the LDS church had the most money, or if it was Scientology, or maybe — as I assumed — the Roman Catholics, or perhaps the Muslims had all the cash, or wouldn’t it be ironic if it was the Buddhists?…