That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 19, 2021

For some reason, Bridget thought this was the appropriate way to dress to go see the new Godzilla movie.

“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me!”

Lizzy stopped to check out the hot girl

Preparing to perform her killer rendition of “Sukiyaki” at the local pub’s “Cultural Appropriation Karaoke Night.”

All grown up, worn out with four yowling kids and a poop of a husband, Alice longed to go through the looking glass once more.

Bridget, practicing her tough girl pose: ‘Who you looking at, punk?’

We’re all hoping she disrobes/ and reveals two glorious “globes”./ We’re libidinous dues/ who come for the nudes/ in pursuit of our prurient “probes”..

So, she discovered she was not a twin?

“One pair matching bookends, different as night and day…”

♫”When they ask me, ‘What are you looking at?’

I always answer, ‘Nothing much (not much)’ “♫

(Suzanne Vega, “Left of Center”)

Mirrors. Narcissina loved them, and deep down she knew they loved her even more.

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:

Who can that attractive girl be?

Such a pretty face

Such a pretty dress

Such a pretty smile

Such a pretty me!

A sad story. I’d just come out of Hospital . I walked into a bakery shop but an old lady, badly dressed, badly coiffed and looking completely drained, came in beside me. I turned to her and said “After you, Ma’am” …….you can guess the rest.

“I think I’m turning Japanese

I think I’m turning Japanese

I really think so."

I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so.

Mirror, mirror on the wall…who’s the fairest one of all?

“ I feel pretty, I feel pretty….”

A “naughty” school yard chant for skipping rope: “I love myself, I think I’m grand! I go to the movies and hold my hand. I put my arm around my waist. And if I get fresh, I slap my face!”

Music for looking at the mirror: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-tro-freshy&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-freshy&hspart=tro&p=eddie+cantor+i+love+me+lyrics+youtube+video&type=Y219_F163_204671_031821#id=3&vid=c08076341bbff588ac2644957947aeca&action=view

Though it’s mostly a shapeless mass/ she likes what she sees in the glass: / the fabric is swell/ and so, (what the hell) / I guess we must give it a pass.

Listen closely and you will hear the song, “I will always love you”

Gladys going to meet Tyrone F Horneigh at the park bench.

Nuthin’s more depressing than to watch ole Liz undressing in the mor-or-ornin’…

Once again the mirror told the story so much much clearer in the mor-or-ning!

Finally Liz found someone she could really talk to, ………but all the stories seemed so familiar.

Although Bea had achieved a 10th Degree Flowered Belt in HashiRoo Kai-rah-tay, she still preferred to simply slug would-be mashers with her coin-laden purse.

I think I’m a clone now. There’s always two of me just a-hangin’ around.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the most Japanese of all?

Never ever be, just couldn’t be, anyone else but me."

Take that, Ricky Nelson. God, I’m gorgeous.

Sally always wanted to be a geisha but hadn’t a clue what one was. When she found out, then she really wanted to be one!

The Japanese Robe: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Japanese_Robe_MET_ep87.15.56.bw.R.jpg 

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

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/stevens_1823-1906_alfred.html 

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/what-is-called-vagrancy-16565.html?no_cache=1 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-stevens 

https://modjourn.org/biography/stevens-alfred-emile-leopold-joseph-victor-1823-1906/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/s/steven_b/biograph.html 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/alfred-stevens/ 

https://www.galeriearyjan.com/en/stevens-alfred-emile.htm 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/541 

http://www.markmurray.com/alfred-stevens-paintings-for-sale/ 

https://prabook.com/web/alfred.stevens/722415 

https://thebiography.us/en/stevens-alfred 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Alfred_Emile_Leopold_Stevens/9001493/Alfred_Emile_Leopold_Stevens.aspx 

http://www.avictorian.com/Stevens_Alfred_Emile_Leopold.html 

http://hoocher.com/Alfred_Stevens/Alfred_Stevens.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 4 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/11/21?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included 8 of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2710 (May 18, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Corporate decided they’d rather line their pockets than mentor a new generation of writers. They kept fiction alive by calling it “reality t v.” One of their made up “starz” rode that gravy train to the White House. When it became apparent that show was going down “cancel culture” became a buzz term. The audience that prefers “reality” to reality flash-mobbed the Capitol on Jan6.

George thinks he will be a big hit when he walks into the Eagles lodge in his new frock! :>)

Bloody Mary, come get your baby

Bloody Mary, come get your baby

Bloody Mary, come get your baby

@Call me Ishmael – Holy Crap! Your words were music to my ears!