Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 12, 2009

I’ll take that kind of pleasantness any time.

I just LOVE how understated and detached the caption is! It emphasises the cartoon so well!

MMMMMMMMMM

Bank CEO ditched it on the way to the hearing.

I bet there’s a pile of dog poop hidden in the bag…Just like the stimulus package…

Natalie is not always so pleasantly surprised by the droppings on her porch. But in this case the Bird of Good Fortune has favored her.

Don’t forget to declare it on your income tax.

This little thingy went to market…

Oh… hello, all…. there you are… I was looking for you…. but here I am.

Funny thing happened on my way here…. only…um…. I’m not quite sure what it was …cos I seem to have slept through it.

Did anybody else see?

 

Anyway… I see we’re already commenting on

the Feb 12th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

 

Which is what we do here…. after, of course…. finding it on Sherpa

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

 

Today we have … hmmm…. an intriguing and very artistic poster from StelBel.

My, what a long shadow that small basset casts!

And what a long cast, listed, besides that one basset.

So many actors… and I think it was a multi-breed production.

 

Produced and directed by our own Rotty Thalwagger!

This, as I recall, was his first big Howlywood movie… with a huge cast of well known multi-breed stars.

Of course he’s gone on to bigger and better films… but this was the start.

 

I looked and looked for a human version….

but the poster for that was quite different…

so I finally went back to 2017, and discovered that I’d found one then…. not used for the theatrical release…

but apparently only made to imitate the canine poster, and then kept, folded away, in the library of some amateur film historian.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vaeCX1knp9M/UO4o5Ti8wUI/AAAAAAAAIrc/HaZod-ao7vs/s1600/the+thing.jpg

 

That’s not a basset… and it’s not a human!

I believe it’s a wolf.

Dunno why…. I haven’t seen the movie.

Truth to tell…. I haven’t seen the canine version either…

Sorry Stel… sorry Rotty.

We all know I’m a cowardly wimp.

 

Oh… before I forget….

Natalie invited us over for today’s Cleo discussion…

It was strange… she was giggling a lot, and she asked whether we’d all like some nice champagne.

Dear Ms. Bel

My Rotty called early this morning so excited he couldn’t even bark. I told him to take a few deep breaths, sip a glass of water and call me back.

When he was finally able to speak he pointed me in the direction of today’s C&C. We read it together, over and over.

He is incredibly honored that his little three word post from yesterday could inspire such great art, so much so that his emotions have the best of him right now and he is unable to communicate without embarrassing himself (don’t feel guilty about that – it happens ALL the time).*

I’m sure that nice Mr. nighthawks’ mother knows exactly how this feels.

Anyhowl, my Rotty asked me to express his deepest appreciation for what may well be the highest honor of his life, or at least second only to the perfect attendance trophy he received from the Betty Ford Center and Court-Ordered Pasta Abuse Boot Camp, or the participation ribbon from the vacation bible school sack race in 1959.

I’m sure he will tell you himself when he finishes practicing his acceptance speech for the Best Director Oscar at next year’s Academy Award show.*

Does anyone have Jennifer Lawrence’s telephone number? (he’ll need a date, and he heard she likes biscuits)

Sincerely,

/s/ Rotifer’s Mother

Now, you all know that I don’t go to horror films. But when I read that the music was written by one of my favorite film composers, Ennio Muttribone, well, I decided I’d go to the premier, wear a blindfold, and just listen to what should be a beautiful score.

Not!!!

Sorry Mother Thalweg!

This version was good enough, but who could forget the 1951 original, and Jamie Boy Furness’ moving portrayal of a peripatetic rutabaga?

https://i0.wp.com/kindertrauma.com/images/shots/anotherthing4.jpg

So this is Rotty Thalwagger’s Thingy? Stel, I love all the names – so clever.