Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: July 2023

  • Review: Asteroid City

    The new Wes Anderson movie, Asteroid City, is so quirky it’s like a parody of a Wes Anderson movie. Happily, it isn’t quirk for quirk’s sake. There’s a plot, and it’s very very humorous. Also, there’s a movie inside of a play, and the palette is more orange than pink, so that’s a departure. It’s…

  • More Dave Closure

    I saw the Albuquerque area code and immediately answered the phone. It could be about Dave’s house, it could be the lawyer with an update on the probate … it was neither. It was the CVS Pharmacy on Southern calling to remind me Dave was due for his shingles shot. This is the hated CVS…

  • TWIL: Mammogram Hack

    The hook: I was disrobing in preparation for my mammogram. The technician began to explain that now, I needed to slip my right arm out of the gown, and leave my left arm in. I stood up and dropped the gown in the chair. “Wouldn’t it be faster if I just leave the gown off…

  • Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man: Over?

    I have not fluttered for three straight days. Can it be over? Have the spasms been quelled? I don’t feel the constant pulse anymore. Now it’s an intermittent pulse. I am still unable to concentrate. Distraction was the first symptom to appear, so I suppose it’s the last to go. The question, I suppose, will…

  • Plans with Friends

    July is opening up into a social whirlwind. I will wear my mask, and avoid Gary for four days after each, but I have a date for a small outdoor social gathering and two dates to see two movies in a small local theater. Movies are going to be the new Wes Anderson movie and…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 7/6

    This week I corrected the Hunky Gary sketch. Hunky Gary went from this: … to this.

  • Revenge

    By process of elimination, the big love language over here is Acts of Service, and I cashed in an Acts of Service card the other day. Gary was in my room and I asked him to get my earbuds out of the table by the bed. I could have done it, but I would have…

  • Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man: Perspective Edition

    As you know, I am settling down just a little, in that one day in three is normal. On that day in three, men are mere men. Then for two days Satan occupies my lower torso, and every man looks as good as President Macron to me. You know who else looks good to me…

  • Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man: 33% Calmer

    I’ve been tracking the effect this new drug (Oxybutynin) is having on the spasms. It has a short half-life, and it’s been good at targeting the urinary problems, which is what it’s designed for. If I take it and wait an hour then I can go four, even five hours without needing the bathroom. It…

  • TWIL: Dental Term

    The Hook: the dentist referred to my “virgin” tooth. So now I know. A virgin tooth is a tooth that has had no work done on it. Sad to say, he’ll be deflowering my virgin tooth in July.