Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 31, 2012

Well, it certainly is.

Last time I went to the opera it went on for a couple of hours after the fat lady (Jennifer Check) sang.

I have a feeling, though, that the Yakbear is a sad prisoner, much like King Kong in the remake. We should band together and help her escape, and assist her in returning to her native land.

Bri — Yes… I think she looks sad too…And we don’t need her for food.

It might be that one of the onkey’s riding yaks escaped, and ran off to the mountains…got lost and mated with a Yeti.

Maybe she’s all alone, the only one of her kind, and would like friends.We should ask her.

Meanwhile, if you really want to change your user name, it’s very easy…BUT…. be sure you tell us so we know it’s you!

I wouldn’t want my yurt or the bouncer at the Tiki not to recognise your ID!

All you have to do is click on “Profile” up by your name in the upper right-hand corner of your comics page.

You’ll see that the fields under “My Info” are quite open to type into…you can change your name or bio and click “update”…and that’s it!

PacoPuddy! You must have a heck of a bicycle!

I think it’s just a wombat. Big one though.

Bri — it’s kind of deceptive.Where you change your user name is where it LOOKS like you’re changing your contact name for them.

Look under your avatar, not at your user name to the right.

It says “First name, Last name…” but whatever you put in for your “First name” becomes your user name…

I dunno what it displays if you fill in a last name cos I never did.And it says whatever you put there will be publicly available…but as far as I know, your zip code and gender isn’t.

Also… I was doing it from memory…. but after you click “Profile” you still have to click “Update Profile” on the next page before you get to the one I’m talking about.

And yeah… I saw the Briatollah River!

Hey Red…. we keep meeting on the night shift…Jameson’s is good but… well…it’s not Glenfiddich.No liquor for me tonight, though….big day tomorrow at he salon and plenty of partying later, even if the big party is Saturday night.

I’m at the Tiki though…. watching over things for a bit.Monkey said I manage the night shift…not quite true cos sometimes I’m not on Ballard St…..but I help out when I can.

G’night Red…and thanks.Only temporary, of course.

No flash pictures please.

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY,HALLOWEEN

I cant stop laughing about “WOMBAT”Yeah that is a big one.Quick somebody bring me some pliers.Bigfoot is alive and well performing on Broadway.Does a great rendition of “Anne”.Next performance “Lion King”.

briatollahCue up John Phillip Sousa’s Liberty Bell March.If those restraints break, it’ll be more like Yakety Sax.Naturally featuring a Benny Hill chase scene

It’s Fluffy!!! That is Fluffy! Oh my goodness. I haven’t seen him in years! I babysat Fluffy when he was no bigger than a sports car. He ran off to join the circus and nobody could find him. Last I heard, he owned the circus, and was making mega bucks training people to jump through hoops on fire and balance balls on their noses. Looks like he is getting ready to pick some new people. He always was so smart! My Fluffy. You go boy!

Oh and Happy Halloween! Gimme candy.

Hmmm… looks like an opportunity jus waitin to be nocked up ….er, ON…. wut with teh cost of importin yak meat from Termunkistan an all goin up an such…. ah mean, if this is an eggsample of gin etic engine earing to produse bigger an better strain of big’o yaks, then ahm awl fur it…!!! Them fellers at A&M musta bin workin’ overtyme ta git this feller reddy fur the BS Autum Festival… (ah mite have ta git a bigger smoker at teh Tiki bar… jus sayin")

My Scotch of choice is Glenfiddich, but it’s expensive, so I settle for Dewar’s.

Scurrying past the yeti/yak/mammoth on the way back to the house after a nail salon appointment, to meet the delivery truck from the liquor store. No way could I carry all this home on the bus, even though the bus driver volunteered to help me load it for only a slight percentage of the volume. I hated to turn down his offer, but gave him a couple of bottles of Captain Morgans for his good thoughts and settled down in my seat for the ride home. The bus driver sure did enjoy one of those bottles! He was tipping it back all the way down Ballard Street! I think our sheriff needs to know about this. Unless the rules are different here. Heck, he got me home okay, so no harm, no foul, I guess…Oops, the trucks here, gotta go show them where to store everything and get set up for the “Trick or Treaters” and get my costume on etc. See ya’ll later…

DANGMonkey Boos those are some GIGANTIC ribs. We in Texas call that the SENIOR plate.Yu know for those with less appetite.Roll me up and ship me there.Ever see that 90 oz steak they serve in Amarillo. Yes 90 oz. Its is actually a brisket served as a steak. If you can eat the entire meal. Rolls, potato, dessert and meat (limited trimming of fat) the meal is free. You get your name on the wall and a T shirt.But DOSE Ribs are so huge!!!!!!!!!!

I got some hair caught in a zipper once. Had to trim it too. We are talking beards right? Right?Ah, the joy of facial hair. I knew a lady once……..nah forget it.Happy Hallowwennie everyone. East coasters be safe they should have power on soon. It is election time.

@briatollahMy Scotch of choice is Glenfiddich, but it’s expensive, so I settle for Dewar’s.<><><><><><><>><><><><><><><><><>Nothin’ wrong with shakin’ hands with Mr. John D. Done it many times and while I’ve also gone down the Glens many times, OBAN is still my favorite single malt.Why not join me and Red on his porch and sip a wee dram of the Oban ?

Glad I didn’t have front row seats

Psssst! Don’t move. Don’t look back.FLUFFY IS RIGHT BEHIND YOUAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!I am going to the Halloween party as my own best friend. I am going to wear a collar, hold my own leash, and red spandex shorts. Now I know what you are thinking.The collar is a bit much.(It is rhinestone and studded)So I may tone it down.

And dont forget FridayDia De Los Muertos.Celebrate your dead relatives.I will still be wearing the red spandex.

Fluffy is now going to tap dance toPutting on the RITZ!!!!!!!

Annie Conda, Penny Python and Baby Boa say, “Guess we’ll have to wait for the next batch of canvassers.” Not a single brat has rung the doorbell and the zoo’s out of hippos and elephants..I suppose I’ll have to go to the Wondermarket and buy some hippo brulee ready meals.

I noticed today that in in the city where I live, there is a Tiki Bar. It’s where Pervy Pauline’s Perfect Perm Emporium used to be.

I have loved that song for probably 30 years or so…

My my ms LD… yew shur no how to stike a pose….!!! (saw ya wile ah wuz headin dow ta Stels WWOI fur mah costume… ya lookin gud!!!!

All decked out in my Bride of Frankenstein outfit…keeping the sheets around me while passing out Kit Kats to the cutest Witches/Cowboys/Vampires/Super Heros/Other creatures….sitting on the porch with an array of goodies for both young and old…scratching beneath the mile high wig with its frosting and streaks…waiting for the chili to finish off and glad that I grated all that cheese to go with it….loving living on Ballard Street with all its kookiness and “creatures”…

now me…. ahm goin in drag…. (now I aint sayin’ ahm, you know…)jus sayin’….. bin werkin’ on mah gorilish figyer

yew dont think ahl skare teh kiddies do ya…?(hoo wants me now…?)

… it shur itches tew…. jus sayin’

Somebody get me a double zombie. (I think Linguist the pirate will like these, as they’re made of five kinds of rum, layered.)

Whew!(Runs into the Tiki, sopping wet, holding a giant fake banana leaf over her head.)

Finally got here…good thing this costume is pretty waterproof!Lost my internet connection! Couldn’t get back to Ballard St. for hours!

Rain coming down in buckets when I got on the bus… nice to be dry at this end…well, not so dry I wouldn’t love a nice bit of Glenf….no, in this get-up better make that a banana daiquiri!

Hello all!

Whoo whoo!Look at the Veteran…in spandex!and woww … Monkey!

Hey, you oughta like this one!

Briatollah! Don’t be so hard onyourself…we like you!

Just barely old enough for a Charlie Brown Christmas?Do you mean you were…. like in preschool?If so, you’re a mere young’un.

OK, just catching up…TWO people, TrekkerMint and U Jean…

both changed their user names and thanked me for helping…You’re very welcome….BUT….please won’t you tell us who you WERE so we recognise you?

I know on Halloween people wear costumes…but you’ll still have yours on tomorrow!

Mmmmm…!!!! A Suzanananadakery…!!!!

Wow..a daiquiri in handYak ribs on the way…(thanks Monkey!)

A fire in the big fireplace….safe on Ballard St….I feel so much better now!

hadn’t thought about it in years!

SPOOKY

Suzananana!

I like that!

But THIS might be a suzanananadakery:

Maybe I can take these big rainboots off now…..whew…

I wanted to trick ‘r treat around the neighborhood…but everybody’s here already….Hi Red, Bri… Linguist…where are Bev and Storm and Pacopuddy…. did you go home?

And where has Stelbel been?Stel! …. are you still OK?Linda…. did you head this way?

So many of you were here earlier but I came so late.

Come on back!The night is young!And I bought a ton of candy but the rain kept the kids home…so I brought it with me…Snickers…eat those up. I don’t like ‘em…Almond JoyPeanut Butter Cups(did I say that out loud….shoot… )OK OK …sigh…I’ll share….

C’mon Bev — I’ll buy ya a daiquiri!but you know who the actual host is…our ever-generous Sheriff…Thank you again, Monkey…I’ll take over the grinder as soon as I warm up just a weeeeee bit more, OK?Still shivering.

sending Susan a bowl of real chili via yak/mammoth while I cover the porch with a tarp to protect the potent potables beneath and put out the candles grinning, knowing saturday night is gonna be one big holiday … sneaking one last Kit Kat and one last Vodka and Cranberry Juice….mmmm, chocolate and vodka…who’d a thunk it?….

Oooh thanks Linda — just the thing to go with a daiquiri and a big plate of yak ribs…(the Freaky-Tiki Yakery-dakery Halloween special!)

Bev… still poring at home… but I’m cozy at the Tiki.Have a dakery..Have a Snickers…

Have a Milky Way or an Almond Joy …yeah yeah or a peanut butter cup…. ok

Monkey….my feet are cold without my boots….you got any slippers upstairs that maybe I could wear?Do you ever even wear slippers?Why would you, I guess….can’t hang onto the chandelier that way.And after all the foot rubs I’ve given you, I still have NO idea what size human shoes you can wear.They’re just not made right for Monkey feet, are they…

Bev…. you’re WALKING from all the way out there?

It’s raining!

Be sure you refresh the page this time!Sometimes I forget too…. seems like it should refresh all the comments by itself when you post…. but it doesn’t.

That reminds me….

I owe Number Six a payback….

Hey Six….NO…. THIS is one for the ladies:(Do you recognise him, Bev?)

And here’s one just for you!

(That’ll teach you to be so “generous” with the wimminfolk!)

OH!… I didn’t realise it was tomorrow….. -—→

It could be a diprotodon (rhino-sized wombat, extinct for about 40,000 years), but it really looks like a stupid, stupid rat-creature from Jeff Smith’s classic fantasy comic BONE.

Don’t soil your pants…

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Happy Halloween!

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.