Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2023

  • Pre-Opera Promenade

    I was giddy all day with the prospect of going to the opera, and then I was giggly all day when I realized what I was excited about. The opportunity to talk with a man in the flesh. Emphasis on flesh. Perhaps even flirting with a man for the first time in three years. That’s…

  • Dan Duryea

    I am currently in love with the film noir actor Dan Duryea. No matter how horrible the movie is, he can elevate it. Seriously, in World for Ransom, which is a very bad movie, he says the most wretched dialog and somehow makes you think you’re watching an urbane comedy, because his delivery is just…

  • Work Icebreaker

    Meetings at TeddyJ often start with icebreakers. I was born with my built-in icebreaker: my extra thumb. I was in a meeting the other day, and the instructor presented us with the oddest icebreaker. “What’s something you did before you were eighteen that you’re proud of?” Completely blank. I truly did not do a thing…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 5/18

    This week the cloud collage went from this: … to this. Sigh. Clouds are hard.

  • Backwards Wigs: Winners

    These wigs I could see wearing backwards. Not bad. In order: Chimera, Wanna, Sexytown

  • Backwards Wigs: Losers

    Well, I took Jessica Fantatica’s suggestion and checked out what some wigs would look like if I wore them backward, because as she says, Zoom has its advantages. (When was the last time I ironed the back of a shirt?) The following wigs did not reverse well. Top to bottom: Shirley, Senior, and of course,…

  • Return to Sexytown

    When you are fifty, you no longer live in Sexytown, but you have only driven ten miles away and you could walk back if you wanted to. When you are sixty, though, you are twenty miles outside of Sexytown. There’s no getting back. But then you put on a sexy wig and there you are,…

  • TWIL: Pie Crust

    The Hook: refrigerated pie crust scraps left over from baby quiches. This week I learned … that pie crust scraps in an air fryer make quite a presentable pie crust snack.

  • Mom Agrees with John Oliver About the DaVinci Code [Spoilers]

    Because of this Writer’s strike I’ve been looking for things I like that I might have missed. I found that John Oliver has released a lot of content on the web that I haven’t seen yet. or content I’ve forgotten. Including this vicious takedown of The DaVinci Code. His complaint was that the initial puzzle…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Maps and Moons and Directions

    I thought that when I made my map I might catch two or three errors in distance or geography. Hah! NINE. Nine mistakes when people head east from Oklahoma and wind up in Texas, or veer from north to south without explanation. I also printed calendars for every month from September 1930 to April 1931,…