Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 21, 2008

Welcome, everybody…..

You’re in the right place….

we to post our comments here for ….

the April 21st  2018 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which you can read on Sherpa:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

 

Just walk on the other side of the street, on the block where Buster lives…

You see what can happen otherwise.

Mr. Kirby lives two doors down, on this side….

and refuses to believe that he should go out of his way,

since he turns left at the next corner, on Lemon Tree street.

 

I’ve tried to tell him…..

it would take less time to cross the street, walk to the corner,

and cross back on Lemon Tree, and go on his way,

than to go home, change clothes, and put on so many Band-aids.

 

As for Buster’s “owners” .. well, who owns who, in that family… I wonder.

 

Apologies, btw, for posting the wrong date yesterday….

I keep a simple version of the wording for these posts in a text file, and every night, I paste it in, and then edit it,

so I don’t have to retype the link and the formatting for the strip name and the date.

Sometimes I even make these posts way ahead….

but I can proofread and make changes , if needed, when I come back at the turn.

 

But last night I forgot to change the date, and I didn’t get back to the comics to notice it.

Sigh….

Perfection is so darn difficult!

Aaand…..

It’s Saturday again, boys and girls…..

and you know what that means!

(even if it’s really Friday night right now, in California, as I post this…)

 

Another puzzle! and yay, another Hopper painting….

I give you, from 1927, “Two on the Aisle” …… slightly altered by Nighthawks…. and side by side…..

https://s9.postimg.cc/rbk9b9zan/Cleo_nine_differences_Apr_21st_18.png

Enjoy!

As the curtain slowly rises on Cleo & Co. exposing the solution to today’s puzzle.

 

https://s5.postimg.cc/5v01mb3qv/Cleo20180421.gif

 

Please take your seat and remember no peeking.

Poor Mr. Kirby. One imagines him sitting, stunned, disoriented, pantsless, in the grass somewhere wondering what happened.

They weren’t exactly raking in the dough that night.

Mr. Kirby goes on a trip.

Grog… you reminded me, that I meant to say, earlier….

While solving the puzzle,

I couldn’t help hoping those patrons were really early arrivals,

and wishing the ninth difference could be that the theater would fill up by the time I finished.

 

Alas, it’s just as empty now….. frozen in time….

but in real life, maybe all the others arrived soon.

ᴘʀᴇsᴇɴᴛs

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR TIMMY, TRY THE WELL

“Saturday Non Solution Special”

 

   1.  Top panel: Man & woman on the aisle are searching for his lost toupee. Bottom panel: Woman in box is thinking, “3 more toupees I’ll have enough for my first stole!”

 

   2.  Top: Man is thinking, "I wonder how the hoi polloi in the rear mezzanine are doing?” Bottom: Woman on the aisle is thinking, “If the usher looks closely and realizes I altered these rear mezzanine tickets we’re screwed.”

 

   3.  Top: Woman in box is reading synopsis of tonight’s production of Shakespeare’s … ᴀʟʟ’s ᴡᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴇɴᴅs ᴡᴇʟʟ. Bottom: Woman is reading synopsis of tonight’s production of … Nighthawks presents … ᴀʟʟ’s ᴡᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴇɴᴅs ᴡɪᴛʜ TIMMY IN THE WELL.

 

   4.  Top: Woman is thinking, “How did Hopper match the color of my wrap with color of the carpeting?” Bottom: Woman is thinking, “Why is Nighthawks screwing with the subtle color schemes of YET ANOTHER Hopper masterpiece?”

 

   5.  Top: Man is thinking, “Picked her up in a limo, orchestra seating, a tux, and reservations at The Gilded Truffle – I better get lucky.” Bottom: Woman is thinking, “HAHAHAHAHAHA!”

 

   6-9.  Highly technical. Only Perkycat, who’s reached that stage in life where she can sit around to her +55 heart’s content, MontanaLady, who’s partying in San Diego with toddlers; SusanSunshine, who may or not have seen a Canadian strip; and Double 0 StelBel*, who has a License To Pun, would understand.

* The name is Bel … Stel Bel.

I am losing my tuch, 6 is all I can manage!!! Oh well, happy Saturday to all!

Out of embarrassment, I won’t say how many I found (maybe still getting over my 4/20 celebration ☺︎). But, the actual

http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/54825/two-on-the-aisle

painting shows NH made at least one (not the same, coloration) change in both his versions (had always thought one of the two was the original). If you have trouble seeing the whole webpage (truncates at the bottom, no vertical scroll bar), try using your space bar to scroll down, and shift-space to scroll up (at least that worked for me using the Safari and Chrome browsers; Firefox shows the scroll bar).

Last week, I pointed to fun facts related to that painting, published along with its 2016 exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. The 2008 Hopper exhibition there produced a fun fact about this painting (at the start of another’s description):

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/hopper/maine

I got seven and found the other two thanks to X_TECH. Now I can sleep tonight.

I only took a few minutes to try to get the 9 differences today and only got 4!!!! Horrors!!! We’re taking off for the big birthday party, can’t wait to see the little guy make a mess with his very own birthday cake (his first taste of SUGAR!)

xoxoxo