Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 27, 2013

Never, ever, start you survey at the Ballard Barista Bar and Bummed Out Blues Brothers Bistro !

Mongo takes his coffee like his women.Cold and bitter.

I also take my coffee like my women. Plain.

Don’t mind if I do… as long as you join me in a wee dram of the ole creathur !

Evening all….

And wow… did I make it while some of you are still here???How unusual for me!

Ling…. hope you saw my last couple of posts.

Meanwhile….I’m thinking maybe Nathan just made that guy very happy…

Gave him a convenient target, a non-threatening outlet for his repressed aggression….

Now he’s at peace…Nathan should write that down.

You couldn’t have all left just when I got here…..not accidentally anyway….sniffle…

OK…. I refuse to go around lifting up the tablecloths and looking behind the chairs…. ..

Mongo is a fairly young character for this strip.

I re… the…. er… so-called professor… I too rarely pay attention to that ilk…but the other night I rather gently returned fire…and later almost deleted it, cos I know there’s no point.

She enjoys provoking people, is happy to think her little negativity bomb will evoke a disturbance…and almost never comes back to read anything directed at her.

Aha … hi Brian.

Maybe Mongo likes women who get in people’s faces.Like his coffee.

Dark, bitter, and extra tall?

Oh… Hi Red!I drank mine before the turn….

Now I’m nursing a banana daiquiri, in spite of the return of the fog.

I’ll tell you how unpredictable the weather is here….

I just checked Google Weather and an AccuWeather app on my phone.

My phone says Saturday will be 68º …. and Google says 90!

Wish they’d duke it out and come up with a winner….cos a 22 degree spread is no help at all!

Or of Mel Torme…. LOL

If anybody in this crowd has ever heard of the Velvet Fog…

my mother’s favorite singer.

Wow, Red…. that’s cool…not his throat problems, of course…but the connection.

And hard to think of Mel Torme singing as a kid.

I do think he started very young… but of course, I thought of him as old, because my mother liked him…LOL…I think he was quite young even then, actually.

Harry on Night Court?

Well… I used to watch a lot of sitcoms when I did some work at home….but it was always erratic, depending on where I had to be, and when

Then as time went on, they seemed to get less funny, less creative… except Seinfeld and a few others.

But in 2008 we went digital … and I’m on an old antenna….

So even with a converter box I only get one small local PBS station…. no networks…

I hardly watch TV so I don’t want to pay for cable.

One of these days I’ll get a newer antenna.Only been saying that since 2008.

OH, g’night Red….

Good to see you again.

Gee, Mongo, if you didn’t like the coffee, just say so.

Loved Night Court (I have 4 seasons on DVD), hated Seinfeld. I switched to Home Improvement instead.

Gee, thanks for the link, Bev, but I think I’d rather listen to fingernails scraping against a black board.

Saturday In the Park

That is some seriously black coffee.

Next up Nathan visits the Ballard Street Maximum Security Prison & Funeral Home where their motto is: “You Stab ’Em, We Slab ’Em!”

Torme VS Blanc! LOL actually made me laugh out loud which I seldom do (especially before breakfast).

Dell provided me with a brand new empty hard drive after being off line this week, but my Norton Backup and Restore did not catch everything I wanted, so I’m still trying to put myself together. I’ll check last night. My dad played trombone and piano and led some bands around then; if it were not for the merger of 20th with Fox, my parents might have been out there in the Hollywood crowd. Retrospectively, I’m glad they did not; growing up in the ’burbs was plenty for me.

I read the end of yesterday and saw no kerfuffle (not even the troll) so far as I saw in my perusal. As to age, I think we are ALL young as we enjoy good humor and I hope to enjoy another 20 years with my lover (even tho’ I’m not as inclined to travel while in this regime). Last Monday, my doctor said he’d prefer I drop the egg whites too, so my breakfast will be some quinoa fusilli with my red sauce, a tablespoon of TVP sausage crumbles and steamed spinach on the side, soy milk to drink. Not bad, but I’d not subject others to my diet (unless they need it). Still love my almond crackers, but it’s all the spices and whole anise and caraway seeds that make them special.

Poor Nathan.

But Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop is just one of those songs I can’t stand.

good night, everybody!

Me wants Rock and Roll Girls.

Good Evening Ballardeers!Nathan, you need glasses. Better ones. And I hope that coffee wasn’t too hot….

I’m fine bev. I see I missed Stelbel here too. I’m glad that YOU are here.

susan! you around too?Has Grog gone to bed already?

I’ll have a ’nana dak in some yak. How about you bev?

Well I think you might know what I like, Bev. Can’t find a decent video though, but I was thinking of the John Fogerty version.

I’m still here, but suffering from satelite outages due to local weather. Drought? What drought? Our grass is green.

Yeah. T-storms mess with my internet a lot, but they have to be really bad to mess with my television signal. Go figure. They’re both received from satellites – albeit from different dishes.

We’ve had our fair share of showers, yet the weather people on the local TV stations keep telling us we need the rain. I don’t get it.

Now I think you do know what I like. Those were among my favorite songs of ’85.

I can be as picky about music as I am about food.

I’m seeing one heck of a light show right now.

The only place I’m going is to bed after these tunes. (Love ZZ) I figure I’ll turn out the lights before the weather has a chance to do so. Good night, bev.

I also love your last choice. Good night again.

Trying to catch up on my comics and emails, but I got a heads up from my Fellow Baby about the great tunes Bev was posting over here. Great choices, Bev!

And you mentioned “rain on a metal roof”. I have a “Family Circus” from 10/12/91 that has been on my refrigerator for MANY years. Dolly is in bed, and you can see the rain from her bedroom window, she says to herself, “Ah! Rain on the roof, my favorite night music”. Me too! :-)

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT, BALLADEERS!

Good Night Ballardeers!

Click on the girl…

But…. But…. I thought I was early tonight….

I mean. c’mon guys… the turnover was 15 minutes ago…..Did everybody just say goodnight?sniffle……

C’mon back!

I’ll fire up the giant grinder and make you all banana daiquiris!

Happy… l love the rain sound vid too….

except I can’t listen to it too long, cos I’m very, very …. suggestible….

LOL

Oh .. Bev…that’s actually nostalgic music of my youth….sappy but I love it!

Did you get your Yak ‘n’ Dak platter?

e careful, Bev…want me to run you out there in Elvis?

Here…. this fell off…B

Gosh…. I don’t see her…BEV….did you just start walking before I could even offer?

sigh….

I’ll be back…

This time tomorrow I shall be bound for Beijing. I’ll try to keep in touch but it depends on wi-fi facilities (and Chinese censorship).

Just Came Back (To Say Goodbye)

ANNOUNCEMENT

Sheriff Monkeyblues, Leon McGurty and Batpug are shown among staffers attending the opening of the new Ballard Communications building on Old Ballard Rd.

The new center is a state of the art facility designed by XTech Industries , and is Ballard County’s latest effort to remain in constant contact with it’s globe-trotting citizenry.

What’s up Doc, Mel Blanc?

Good Night Ballardeers.

GOOD EVENING AND GOODNIGHT! HAVE A SAFE AND ENJOYABLE TRIP, PCOLLI!

Good morning Balladeers.

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I’m sick today.

Tigressy, I’m sorry you are sick today. I hope you feel better soon.