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I heartlessly mock my loved ones.

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Stop Me If I’ve Said This Before: man of the family

Abandoned Draft Version: The first neuron feels an electric charge, and when the charge builds up enough that person discharges all the distress to the next neuron down the line. Eventually when enough energy is discharged, you will have activity:... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Weekly Paint Progress: 9/17

The Big picture will be based on this photo: What is that, four colors? Easy. I am this far: The pears went from this ... ... to this: Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Thirty-two years ago Mom bought us a chair, to ensure she would always have a comfortable living room chair she could use when she came to visit. It was a nice enough blue La-z-boy, not one of those giant Taj-Mahal... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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We have been using Shipt to get our groceries. A few days ago we placed an order, and we didn’t pay attention and missed the Shipt text messages, so the shopper had to call Gary to ask a few questions.... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Gary has been feeling a little bit better - enough that he can stay awake for four or five hours a day, so we are back to binge-watching television in the evenings. I came upstairs from painting last weekend and... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Can I Take Another Year?

Dr Fauci says to hunker down. Life won’t go back to normal until the end of 2021. Doctor, I love you, but I cannot hunker any harder. I’m already doing extra hard hunkering. Way harder than a person with an... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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I wonder if the Trump politicos knew that the Woodward recordings would come out right before the 9/11 anniversary. I certainly heard the similarities, listening to the documentaries on 9/11. I got to hear both George W. Bush and Rudy... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Stop Me If I’ve Said This Before: sex lives of high school teachers

Abandoned Draft Version: High school dq t c gay not gay Present Day: I did actually post the story of the high school teacher who got the student pregnant, denied it, and yet married her, losing his job (but probably... Continue reading

Posted Sep 11, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Weekly Paint Progress: 9/10

This week the crypts went from this ... ... to this: I don’t like the detail on the arch that I added. But, I like everything else. The stoop looks right now. So, even though the far left crypts should... Continue reading

Posted Sep 10, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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I was conversing with the young people at work about our “development objectives.” (If that phrase sounds like corporate double-speak to you, well then congratulations to you. Nice to be independently wealthy. We working class have salaries based, in part,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 9, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Gary. Chair. Hair. Outlet. T-shirt.

Feel free to rag on the non-mission blue La-z-Boy defiling the room. There’s a tear in the back that I mean to ironically patch with duct tape. Continue reading

Posted Sep 8, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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There is a tradition in Santa Fe New Mexico. According to my brother (and this is confirmed by Wikipedia): Once a year people go to the Newspaper office, write down their grievances, and put them in a box. The box... Continue reading

Posted Sep 7, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Celebrity Hat is Going to Suffer From Exhaustion If this Pace Keeps Up

Today marks the third time the Celebrity Hat has been out of Her box this year. First for Friend #2’s fundraiser, then for the Virtual Kentucky Derby, and this past Saturday for the rescheduled Kentucky Derby. Just a few nods... Continue reading

Posted Sep 6, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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This is a new twist on the GlamorSkunk - on the left, we have a skunk who has left behind his kicky leg bands and is sporting a back-to-front Nike swoop. https://youtu.be/r3TayPbVEPw Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Stop Me If I’ve Said This Before: religion

Abandoned Draft Version: Religion God doesnt listen to the prayers of a Jew bacon Mormonism is a cult catholics candle burners hooted probably be;lieve we have funny hats and saints poetry as part of belief Present Day: This is the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 4, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Weekly Paint Progress: 9/3

This week the crypts went from this ... ... to this: I think it’s almost done. Needs more darkness. All the whites need a little brown. And I might do the little details on the arch door and the left... Continue reading

Posted Sep 3, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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The Novel: Lead Characters

I worked this week on having the novel’s main characters answer Proust’s Questionnaire. I only finished it for the male character, Joe. The exercise has made clear to me that even after Jerry’s multiple drafts of the novel, and the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 2, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Idle gossip doesn’t bother me. Who’s doing who, who got caught for what, I don’t care. I don’t even care if people gossip about me. In my experience it’s: correct, which is fine, or wrong, and facts will win out... Continue reading

Posted Sep 1, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Here is a quandary. As I said during the 2016 election, I don’t like yard signs. Put another way, I like getting along with my neighbors more than I like yard signs. So here is the 2020 yard sign debate.... Continue reading

Posted Aug 31, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Republican National Convention

I watched both the political conventions. (I watched the RNC, unlike Stephen Colbert, and watch this if you haven’t seen his screed already.) I always watch both, so it couldn’t be different this year. But you know what was different?... Continue reading

Posted Aug 29, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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This pan was despised in Mom’s household. We called it the Bacon Burner. I was well into my marriage before I learned it is officially called a broiler pan, and it usually comes with a new oven. It’s like an... Continue reading

Posted Aug 29, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Stop Me If I’ve Said This Before: drafts

I see other bloggers refer to posts they’ve found in their Drafts folder. I think, “I wish I had a Drafts folder. I publish everything, no matter how crappy it is.” Evidently not! A recent search to see if I... Continue reading

Posted Aug 28, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Weekly Paint Progress: 8/27

This week the crypts went from this ... ... to this: ... and the new project is pears! This is from the glazing book, so there will be dozens of layers of very thin paint. I zoomed in on that.... Continue reading

Posted Aug 27, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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Breathing Update

Well, last week I had work worries and brother worries weighing on my diaphragm, and I was unable to take a deep breath. You know, when you feel like your yawn impulse is suppressed. I know many people can’t catch... Continue reading

Posted Aug 26, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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I have a long history with Candidate Joe Biden. I didn’t know much about him until the end of his first run for President in 1988, when he decided to lift a section of a British politician’s speech without using... Continue reading

Posted Aug 25, 2020 at Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

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