Last Kiss by John Lustig for June 09, 2021

Hmm… it must just be a coincidence that this art is from 1952 and Daphne du Maurier’s novella “The Birds”, was first published in her 1952 short story collection The Apple Tree. The image/text brings to mind the Hitchcock movie to me.

LOVE your stuff, John! What you come up with, considering the originals you have to work with, is clever and worthwhile. Keep it up!

Tippi head wren?

Warren is going to get Coo coo-ed!

Plan B: ‘Please officer, there’s this seedy character hanging around the park!’

Now if they are some Black Bears around ……

if she also had a horseshoe in her purse, she could dump the seed on him while he was lying down.

She should have packed a butter sock.

The bird is the word.

And hope he knows a good dry clear.

warren was a cheap date, but it so embarrassing when he’d get down on his hands and knees to peck at the ground…

The lost original concept for The Birds?

As it turned out, he was a seedy character after all and for the birds!

It’s a B-1rd with it’s bombay doors open, ready to let loose.

Warren turned his back on her because she did not want to lay on her back?

Stay safe and well my friends.

The real story behind The Birds.

It also helped that she had memorized the lines to “Risseldy Rosselty”.

Vintage legend. Unverifiable but it lives on yet.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-harvard-stadium-pigeon-prank-that-pavlov-would-be-proud-of

Look! Up in the air! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!

Nope, my mistake. It’s just a bird.

The world’s introduction to the first feathered head job…

Sprinkle birdseed on the car that parks in your reserved parking space. Let them fuss and fume about having to get a car wash every time.

Unknown to her, sitting in the park at the time was director Alfred Hitchcock…