Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 10, 2009

I think it’s time to NOT walk with Charles.

ejcapulet: Exactly my thoughts.

Send him to John Cleese.

Charles is just showing off his new hip replacement.

Walking with Charles is gluten free and ketogenic! But he is not much for conversation.

The applause gradually subsided, until Cleo finished converting the French Horn into a Trumpet! Then the crowd went wild!!

As soon as Cleo quit blowing, it curled right back up like a party favor.

He’s going to be known as Chuckie if he keeps it up.

If he blows that at midnight it could be the end of the world.

Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen… and all the rest of you….

to yet another in Cleo’s 2019 concert series…. in which she aspires to serious musicianship.

Luckily … um… or… sadly, whichever you think….. we can’t quite hear her playing….

Well, I  can’t… you go have a listen in

the June 10th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which you can read on Sherpa

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

Funny, you guys have been saying everything I was about to say…. that’s what I get for being late again…. sigh…..

Yup…. Dennis… I thought that too. She straightens a French horn into a trumpet…

Now that’s a lotta air…. and a helluvan embouchure.

Yeah, Grog… it does look like that sort of trumpet…. assuming you mean Cleo… but she’s a “she.”

And Farside… … it’s gotta curl up again, just like a party blower…. to fit back in its case.

The missing part is.. does she play any music?

Did her horn emit nothing but an ear-shattering “SQUAWK!”

Or an amazing melody, with all the strength of Gabriel’s horn?

Did the thunderous applause peter out to polite little claps, and then titters…. and maybe moans?

Or was the whole audience awestruck at the mere power of her tone?

I think I have to get my ear closer to the strip and try again to hear it…..

though I admit, part of me is sensing a warning bell, as I type that.

ChaRLs is Curant Lee teh MinistuR of SiLLy WaKLs hear on BS… Hiz Akshuns rezults in CustuMers wen they FaLLer him Into teh TIKI…. SAleS PreTTy mutch Dubble on those dayZ…

Cleo looks great in red!!! Even her cheeks.

What an accomplished musician she is!

After the ‘skroink’, the audience quietly filed out.

Now that’s lung power!