Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 10, 2021

It’s a good thing that Malcolm gave up smoking.

You can really see the point where he’s starting to lose consciousness!

The showing is posthumous of course. Malcolm has gone to the great studio in the sky.

His funeral was a lot of fun. We were all given a can of spray paint and told to have at it.

It would be difficult to match that artwork.

You can almost see the marked improvement.

Truly a one of a kind

Does anyone know, Cleo & co still comment on here ten years ago?

Looking at it from the bottom up, it kinda LOOKS like a gas leak!

/In a sort of Expressionist style, I mean.

If they didn’t drag him out of there in time…

Well, I understand that art tends to command higher prices once the artist has passed on to the great studio in the sky.

That’s a Kansas landscape, complete with funnel cloud

Thank you for the chuckle.

Malcolm in his Blue (in the face) Period…

Has.. or had? Evidently, the worth of picture goes up after the death of the artist.

Coincidentally, I just read an article about cave paintings in confined cave spaces. Those paintings tend to have more “mystical” elements. This is believed to be a symptom of anoxia in the artists, who may have deliberately sought such experiences. Low oxygen levels were probably exacerbated by the artists’ torches.

I like his final work best, simply titled, “Ka-BOOM!”

Eventually, Malcolm’s career ran out of gas.

How can this be, Malcolm hasn’t paid the utility bill for several months.