Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 14, 2020

“we all,” says Viola?

And don’t we wish Viola was?

Maybe we can add an imaginary Snidely Whiplash ’stacheto Ernesto to enhance his skulking around!

I think we’re ALL Bozos on this bus.

Good luck and stuff is my new salute for awhile.

It’d be easier to go to the carnival and pay a visit to Zoltar

I think I’ll start classifying the people I don’t like as imaginary.

Maybe, “Everyone” is imaginary to Peter?

Glad Petey’s hair calmed down.Way too much going on ;)

“The halls under the old gym”… Sounds like Catacombs… ☺

My imaginary friend rarely wears clothes and when she does it’s scandalous.

There are a few people in this world who I wish were imaginary.

the way this arc is headed it looks like Petey need his cousin Harry Potterpoop.

While Imaginary Ernesto treks off on his Great Adventure, Petey hangs around the garbage bin and, lo! Viola surfaces and confirms (?) Ernesto’s status….

Whither goest thou, Ernesto? Quo vadis?

As a kid, my younger brother had an imaginary friend. He even pointed out a house on a neighboring street and claimed he lived there. His name, and this was pretty startling coming form a five year old, was Crabby Davis Brynner. I finally realized he had constructed it from Crabby Appleton, the villain in the Tom Terrific cartoons, and Yul Brynner, a popular actor of the day, and Davis, properly in the middle, from Sammy Davis Junior.

What still seems so odd to me is that the fictitious name almost scans poetically as a sound alike: Sammy/Crabby Davis/Davis Junior/Brynner. Same cadence, with three rhymes. Or two plus one repetition.

Of course, Crabby was the source of bad advice when my brother was caught in mischief. “Well, Crabby said it was OK.” Or he was the outright perpetrator… “I didn’t do it . Crabby did.”

One day, he insisted that it was Crabby’s birthday. He wrapped a pencil in paper and went to deliver it. I followed from a distance and saw him leave the festively wrapped pencil on the doorstep of Crabby’s house. I wonder what the residents made of the strange little package.