Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 30, 2021

Phideaux is a tad too fastidious.

“True, Ma. But that was before we moved to Ballard Street.”

Humans are the only animals who retain the ability to suck into our adult years.

Miss Binky doesn’t live here anymore.

Yeah but Miss Binkley was the reason we had to get new carpeting every 8 months.

Ms. Binky, there’s a knock on the door; it’s Gavin Newsom.

Lapping is sooo last year.

Along with Phideaux, who has leaned to suck…

another thing that sucks is that I just discovered, once again, that I haven’t been getting this strip lately in my daily queue.

GoComics keeps removing it from my “My Comics” page, including the email…. I have no idea why.

I have about 60 strips on it…. seems like a lot, but I’m a slacker compared to some of you.

I read them all every day, except maybe one or two that I purposely put near the end in case I don’t make it that far.

You’d think I’d notice right away if “Ballard Street” is missing…

it being a favorite, and one of the few where I comment pretty often.

But I read the 10-year-old strip when I comment on “Cleo and Company” …

so I sometimes don’t notice for a few days that the “new” one is missing.

Easier to notice something by its presence than its absence…

Meaning both the strip and me.

But …um… let me know if you don’t see me for a long time.

LOL.

Not counting the ones like “Bent Objects,” that actually leave GoComics…

I have about three disappearing strips.

Always the same ones, at random times…

and they come back as soon as I add them back to my page.

Meanwhile, I’ve wondered whether anyone else has that problem.

Time to get down on your knees and show Miss Binkey how it’s done.

I wonder how Miss Millie High Maintenance does it.

I can hear Rod Serling saying, “submitted for your approval.” :)

Wait, is this our Miss Binky, or Their Miss Binky?