That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 15, 2022

The new office reminded Frank of the coffee shop in the Village he used to go to late at night.

“To jump, or not to jump.”

new post-pandemic workspace in the company parking garage!

Window office in Kiev

Walter was ambivalent about the new office. The view was great. Cleaning the bird shite off of the desk, not so much

Still better than my office. The only windows I have is from Microsoft.

Boyd Armstrong! King of Lego Land!

When you are the editor in chief of The Daily Breeze, you have to go with the flow … every freaking minute!

He must have a lot of paper weights on hand.

Jed quickly learned why the old English name was “wind eye.”

of this man evokes sad, dreamlike flight.

Into space will he leap?

Or is he home asleep?

(Note his bedpost at the lower right.)

/// Hopper’s wife, (it is said) used to call

this stark work, “Man in the Concrete Wall.”

“Office in a Small City”

also makes me feel pity.

That back slab has no windows at all.

Left with the realization that this was a lowest bidder government contract, he secretly congratulated himself that this was not a NASA moon project.

Architectural ingenuity/

Which dispenses with ALL superfluity/

Leaves a chap in a station/

Of sad isolation../

An example of sheer incongruity..///

Rectilinear rigidity/

Eliminates any fluidity/

And a chap left alone/

In a cubicle of stone/

Is bound to be prone to morbidity.

The building manager had no idea what drafting was, but figured window glass would just block the flow.

but no panes or wood grillwork is seen.

He’s exposed to the air

if there’s no window there.

Can it be that it’s just very clean?

Kinda makes me feel down, this picture…

Still following COVID office procedures here I see.

The slums look the same no matter how high you go on the corporate ladder…

The job description did say air-conditioned office.

“The architect must have been daft/

Or at least failed to master his craft/

In the absence of glass/

I am freezing my a**/

In a multi-directional draft.”

As I sit ‘neath a blinding sky/

With my papers askew and awry/

I am somewhat chagrined/

At the force of the wind../

But at least the weather is dry …

Herman, waiting for that rooftop sunbathing lady to come out at her usual time.

I feel sorry for all the guys working in that late-Victorian building across the street. When they look out their tiny little windows, all they can see is this mid-century modern monstrosity that I work in.

Jed has no thoughts of leaping or jumping. / His plan was really quite cunning. / A view panoramic / Gives our mild paranoiac / From any direction the ability to see them coming!

Jed wondered why they called this office the “Suicide Suite”…

At first, Hank Floyd Right was thrilled with the idea of having a corner office but gradually, the room with the view failed to inspire.

“Okay, yeah, I feel bad for the birds when they smack into the windows too, but isn’t there a better way?”

One Monday, while esconsed in his office, Kerry Livgren was inspired to write his big hit.

♬Dust in the wind / All we are is dust in the wind♬

/// If you think that his office is nice

with no windows, please take my advice.

Gale wind cross-ventilation

causes defenestration,

and in winter the glazing is ice.

Yep – I’d much rather have a big office in a small city, than a small office in a big city.

Escher sat and contemplated whether or not to take the lysergic acid diethylamide.

Jed found a lot of breezy, top floor offices available on Wall Street come November 1st, 1929.

Oh boy, an office with a view and fresh air!

I’ve been around the world

Had my pick of any girl

You’d think I’d be happy

But I’m not

Ev’rybody knows my name

But it’s just a crazy game

Oh, it’s lonely at the top (Randy Newman)

Office in a Small City: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Office in a Small City" site:metmuseum.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and currently click the first link found (not a general Ad) for info and links that point to more info about this painting. 

Due to © issues with this painting, I can’t post its image to Wikimedia Commons (WC). Had I been able to do that, I would have pointed to 

"Office in a Small City" site:edwardhopper.net 

(currently first non-Ads link found by same list of search engines) in the WC file, for its longer painting description.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2960 (July 15, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 of his works have been used here. The March 30, 2022, strip has the prior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2hgtFBBbxk

/// In high winds the whole building would sway.

Engineers were told, “Fix it today!”

After cutting out vents

the improvement’s immense.

At their own risk, the tenants could stay.

Office worker with the beta version of the 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0.

Hello, Everyone! Sorry I’ve been gone for so long. After struggling to find steady work, I found myself working six days a week until further notice.

But for today, the Dragoncat Award for Best LOL: Poetry goes to… Bookworm! Congratulations!

Nothing like waking up and finding your windows have been stolen … in the mornin’

After 20 years of fighting the Covid they finally discovered that this approach had a 20% chance of making a 2% decrease in infections.

Any panes he proudly disdains/

So the pressing question remains/

Does he risk melanoma/

In old Oklahoma,/

“Where the wind comes whippin’ down the plain ?

Could the city be in Alabama/

(In which case it can’t be Yokohama)/

Or is it in Kansas/

(Which would call for more stanzas)/

And the natives cry out “Yo’ momma !”

Wherever this small city is/

To preeminence he has “ariz”/

Now he labors, aloft/

In a “suite” Microsoft…/

So be sure: at his job, he’s a whizz !

For tomorrow:

Gather ‘round, boys (but not too near)/I’ve a message that all of you need to hear: /FDR has “departed” – / “Harry’s time” has now started/Henceforth, “the buck stops here !”