Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 03, 2025

Use the drum sticks on his head.

we are up to witness the beginning of a whodunit series.

Flo knows that playing the drum solo from Ina Garda Da Edda is the only way Roger can relieve his tensions.

Relax, Flo. It’s only a high-hat. The worst he can do is start an incessant disco beat.

Newspaper headline; Man Found With Drumsticks Jammed in his ( sorry the dog ate part of the front page….

/// Roger’s never been much for discussion.

Flo won’t go with the flow of percussion.

She has cautioned him not

to respond by rim-shot,

or she’ll drum his head into concussion.

He misunderstood the phrase “symbolic logic.”

Is there some cymbalism I missing here?

It’s the times when he arrives with the big bass drum that has Flo on edge. He was ever good at playing a fish.

Maybe you should just go, Flo!!!

A cymbal of true love.

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum. ♫

It probably would be so bad if Roger didn’t percussion-punctuate everything on the Evening News.