Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2025

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/6/2025

    This week the croquet balls went from this: … to this. Horrible in new ways? Clearly the top left needs to be more purple, though it isn’t in real life. And why does the mallet scare me?

  • Will Curse of Oak Island ever end?

    I was just blowing through the most recent episode of Curse of Oak Island, talking back to the narrator, as I do, and one of rhe Laginas said “Will this be the day? God, I hope so.” “Whoa,” I thought, “Marty … or Rick … I can’t keep you straight … that’s a shift in…

  • The fever

    I walked into the house Saturday and Gary announced that he had tried to pee and something was not right down there. I asked for specifics and he said he did not feel good in his urinary parts. A fight ensued because he refused to let me take his temperature. Gary: YOU ARE NOT TAKING…

  • Walgreens checker

    There is a cashier at Walgreens who is either my favorite or my least favorite. If I am not there on “urgent” business he’s my favorite. Chatty, friendly, I get to know the personal business of everyone ahead of me in line. If I’m at Walgreens because I have an active bladder infection, he is…

  • TWIL: Black smoke

    I have always thought black smoke from the Vatican was the announcement that the Pope had died, but no. It’s the announcement that voting has begun to find a new pope. As I write this the Pope is alive, and will no doubt rally past this pneumonia scare.

  • TWIL: Second-line rules

    I wanted to know if a celebrity dies who is generally despised (like, I don’t know, an politician, or his buddy) — do people in New Orleans twirl hankies in a second line as a celebration of their life, or is it a celebration of their death? That brought me to the answer that, New…

  • KDHX disappoints

    The new management of local, eclectic, diverse, multi-ally radio station KDHX has abruptly dismissed all their on-air talent, no doubt for being too DEI and too …I don’t know, fascinating? I am sad for two reasons: When I was very young, Gary and I were walking past KDHX (I believe) and popped in to ask…