Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 27, 2020

Brian WILL eventually crash. and it’ll register as a 6.8.

He certainly does look buzzed.

I know some people who would love to have the java juice go directly into their veins.

Key word “buzz” (I’d be signing before the paper got there!)

Many’s the time that I wished for this very infusion.

Looks like coffee being taken intravenously.

I’V thought about doing this.

I’m more than a bit worried about the actual mechanism of delivery here.

It looks as though Brian has the makings of some sort of set-up for an intravenous infusion…

However… since the IV “bag” is an old coffeepot, or perhaps a plastic thermal carafe…

and the tubing looks like it came from a bicycle pump…

just what did he use to pierce the vein in his wrist?

I hate to even say it… but at the risk of giving myself the shivers…

I hope not the sports ball inflator needle that came with the pump!

And what did he sanitize everything with?

Hand sanitizer will NOT do!

Some sort of medical intervention is clearly needed here.

But… wait… Brian is a cartoon.

Phew.

Maybe toons can’t get infected.

The rest of you: Don’t try this at home!

Unless, you know, you’re a cartoon.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I wouldn’t want to be stuck there.

What a waste, a coffee IV, you miss out on the taste of coffee.

He finally passed out and was good to the last drop.

No way. Even my toenails would be buzzing.

Mainline House….good to the last drop…

It makes the day just fly past.

And then, Brian blasts through the remainder of his office wall…

Brain can’t wait to get home, it’s a nice day and he knows Ms Ohlala will be sunbathing in the back yard.

I tried it. The grounds keep clogging the IV needle.

He seems thrilled. Is that an IV of sunlight?

And they called him ‘mad.’

Better than the enema.

He got into Doc’s nuclear coffee again.