Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 09, 2009

What a waste of money.

Piece of junk, look at all that smoke. That can’t be good for your health, can it.

something more with GPS tech, but where’s my keys?

I like the 2 button remote!

But where does she store the remote control?

We get lazier by the year, what happen to the fun of lookin for things. A real invention is a voice controlled t.v.

Hey Claude, it still beats a pi$$ed off pigeon.

Amazon missed their chance to copy this for drone delivery in 2009! Of course, in 2009 they were still just a book seller.

Claude, good thing you did not have a toupee to lose. That owl just does not like your looks!

Whoa…. watch out, everybody…

We seem to be in an angry owl flyover zone….

But I vow! No owl or other fowl’s foul howl will keep us from commenting on

the June 9th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

But do approach it cautiously…. on Sherpa…

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

Dennis points out that Claude has no toupee to lose ….

but I wonder whether that’s contributing to the owl’s fit of pique….

the fact that Claude can’t help feather his nest…. if he has a nest.

Owls usually “borrow” nests from other birds…. so maybe this owl is angry about being homeless.

So many things can contribute to irritable owl syndrome.

I was looking at Claude’s head, and the shape…. especially the hairless back view…. somehow reminded me of a really old cartoon character… but I can’t figure out who.

Any ideas?

Then I thought, wow, that owl looks like it’s ready to be a toupee for Claude….

so I stuck it on his head….

https://i.postimg.cc/FFq9L2KM/Claude-wearing-owl.png

And then I laughed…. because it suddenly brought to mind the pictures I’ve seen of Johnny Depp, in what seems to be a ridiculous Tonto get-up.

I didn’t see the movie, so you’re entitled to your own opinion… but look:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E1idteP6QaM/T5bkYByWl0I/AAAAAAAABME/Ets_ixal6Cs/s1600/depp.png

Imaginary tribal brothers?

Oh… and a note to StelBel and Montana Lady:

You asked SheMc to send you an email through me…

but she and I don’t have each other’s addresses… unless she picked mine up when I posted it, but never wrote to me.

I’d been concerned about her, because she hadn’t posted here in a while…. and I knew she’d been having a difficult year.

I even asked if anybody here or on another strip had seen her, but nobody answered.

So when I wandered into another strip’s forum, and found someone else posting that she’d been in contact with her, I left a comment to her there.

That’s the message she was thanking me for….

though it didn’t require any thanks, of course.

I hope SheMc won’t mind me posting …. but she doesn’t seem to be keeping it a secret … that she recently lost her husband..

I’d seen previous posts where she said he’d been quite ill with cancer.

Other hard things have happened too…. it’s not been a good year for her.

I’ve been so sorry to hear all that, SheMc…. so I was very glad to see you able to come back and enjoy a puzzle!

I don’t know how interested you are in expanding your address book at a time like this…

but if you do want to write to me, which will also give me yours…. so messages can be passed along if you like…

(also for anyone else on Cleo looking for it) …

My address is the name I use here, at Gmail dot com.

Please put your GoComics name in the subject line, in case I won’t recognise your other one.

What I can’t seem to do is be much of a correspondent….

I try…. but…. sigh…. I herewith profoundly apologise to everyone to whom I’ve owed messages forever….

Maybe Cleo should tell that evil cat up the street about that owl. The problem might be taken care of.

My Favorite Part™ was when the owl went woosh instead of nighthawks going whoosh.

One day she’ll end up losing the locator. Then where will she be?

Wasn’t that a fine bit of woosh-craft?

Poor Claude. He was safe the whole time. The only thing the owl was interested in was using the mirror!

Must’ve been a female.

A drone prototype.