Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 20, 2007

Ballard Streeters believe in affirming themselves.

RE C&C: I rented an apartment to Miss Cleo, under another name, before she developed her Jamaican identity. She had gotten a job with a local African American theater establishment. Not too surprising in retrospect, she skipped on rent and scammed me and her employer and others with a fake dying-of-cancer story. Sadly, it appears she did eventually die young, though who knows? I have sold that building, but last I heard the residents have a small “Miss Cleo”" shrine.

Susan! hope you get that ol’ ‘net connection working right…

it’s just not the same around here in the mornings if you’re not here.

here’s hoping all of us are never subject to the dreaded unintentional pixel shift.

I just hate it when my pixels shift without my permission

“broke pocket”?

(the judges would also have accepted “ultra baankruptiness.”

Miss Cleo doesn’t believe in keeping secrets.

I loved the Kibble Bowl Reading! You can tell so much from the leftovers. Oh wait, our dogs never had ANY leftovers (let alone ultra leftovers). Would it be the same if you poured a new batch?

I guess she doesn’t do paw readings??

Hahaha, it’s all a bit much but she has an audience!!!