That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 24, 2019

Orpheus would tell stories of the backwater joints he played when he first started out.

When Orpheus played his instrument he made his short and tall hares stand up.

Thanks for the offer, but he needs more than a hare shirt to complete his outfit.

Bald Faced Lyrer, the Pied Piper’s lesser known cousin.

With a name like de Forest Brush, I’m not surprised he could get rabbits to pose like that for him.

“Play some songs from “Hare”.

Good, good VIBRATIONS …

My weekend at Woodstock….they told me not to take the brown acid.

The Naked Lyre later became the Bald Soothsayer.

Naked guy playing with his instrument

You’ve really got to admire/ his commitment to playing the lyre/ for he’d squandered his portion/ of the family fortune/ and even his wardrobe entire.

In some circles,it’s a scandal/to perform wearing only your sandals/ but a cluster of hares/ is not prey to such cares/ and they don’t ridicule your “love handles”.

Eventually, he acquired tighty-whiteys and a cowboy hat, traded his lyre for a guitar and moved to New York where he became a local icon.

How Eddie Rabbitt learned his chops from the master of them all.

“I’m not nekked. I’m wearing shoes. Nyah-nyah-nyah. Ooo.. great song title.. everybody sing along.. Ohhhh.. I’m not nekkid, I’m wearing shoes… EVERYBODY.. I’m not.. oh phooey you’re such bores.”

They must be rabbits because there’s no hare apparent.

The comments upon today’s comic / In limericks sharp and ironic / Left me splitting my sides / Yes, I laughed till I cried / Until now I’m almost catatonic.

Got to be the most dysfunctional sound box ever put on a stringed instrument. Anyway, the painting is currently on view at the Boston MFA; visit https://collections.mfa.org/objects/35858 for details.

Hare today; gone tomorrow…

The meter of limerick / is difficult to mimic. / Two internal rhymes / in very short lines / is really quite hard to pick.

He envisioned a different kind of gig when he was told he would be playing for some bunnies…

There’s the Stonewall and here I am. So when’s the riot start???

You people are all so clever!

Orpheus: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_de_Forest_Brush_-_Orpheus,_1890.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/brush_george_deforest.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2055 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68732072/george-de_forest-brush 

https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/george-de-forest-brush.html 

https://www.nga.gov/press/exh/241.html 

https://crystalbridges.org/blog/happy-birthday-george-de-forest-brush/  

http://www.monadnockart.org/artists-past/george-de-forest-brush  

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/06/21?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included 4 of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2250 (July 23, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Is that a lyre in your lap, or are you just happy to see me?”

Things to do while the laundry is drying outside on the line.

Silly rabbits! Harps are for kids!

Yeah, yeah; music has charms to soothe the savage beast. But bunnies don’t count, Orpheus.

Elmer Fudd’s hired assistant against Bugs Bunny.

BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hiya Happyx3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Anyone remember a musical group called Orpheus from back around 1970?

due to censors, harp was placed in perfect position, it made David feel better, if you know what I mean!

He wondered why his friends won’t come around anymore.

Breast, soothe the savage breast was the original intent. Who knew they were so animalistic and violent back then?