Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 15, 2018

Music hath charms to rouse the resting breast.

Livia’s emotions take over when Luther plays his clarinet.

The real question is, what is that on Luther’s head, and where did it come from?

The sight was shocking, the sound was frightening and the news was tearable.

Whose display of emotion is Livia referencing, hers or Luther’s? That seems to me to be crucial in answering her query. Could they be interconnected? i.e. Could Luther’s sensuous clarinet playing have stirred Livia’s emotions? Or could Livia’s reaction to the news have prompted a sudden burst of feeling in Luther’s playing?

Luther must have found the long-lost book of charms by the Pied Piper.

From the bottom of your feet.

Living all these years with Luther… Louella finally snapped.

And who can blame her, that constant tooteling and the weird headgear is bad enough in Church on Sunday, but him playing the Star Wars theme at old man Heppler’s funeral… I felt sorry for her, 46 years, tsk tsk.

Have you ever HEARD a chanter?(sp?) Like mini bagpipes. Wonderful, if you’re a fan of the pipes, but if not…

Hot flash?

Was he playing Arthur Peel’s “Reverie”?

Politics.

Who doesn’t go at least a little bit crazy when those wild flutophone riffs are a’callin’…?

Play it again, Sam.

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling her.

You’ve had it your entire life, dear. Hidden intentionally, of course. That’s why you don’t know where it came from.

Those unexpected high notes will do that.

A fine thing that Luther had to catch his breath.. that fine dress was about to be ripped to shreds in a moment of ecstasy

She took the high road and he took the low road, and he was in Scotland a fore her…

I just googled Jerry. I had a feeling he was old because his cartoons always featured older people. Yep, we were both born in 1940. Good cartoons. Keep it up, Jerry. — Don

Perhaps Luther had best play his shawm out in the garage.

It’s Sheikh night, as he began to play “The dance of the seven veils.”

In actuality, it was the ghost pepper she had with her Scotch egg for a snack!

He played “Arthur’s Reverie” from 9-Chickweed Lane.