Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 03, 2009

She needs to get away from the old man for a bit.

…or enhance them

Or polly could just put a plastic bag over his head.

Reminds me of “Waiting for God”

One smart old guy.

Polly has become rather vexed at some of Paul’s attempts at social interactions.

Unstated: unwanted social interactions.

I have forgotten how to make italics.

It’s THURSDAY! Time for another poster from StelBel?

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

Ew! I am glad Cleo did not take this role! It would not be good for her wholesome image!

Good morning, scary movie lovers and Montana Lady…

Another fine poster from StelBel for another maybe-not-so-fine-but-I’ll-never-know movie that I’ll never see….

It’s the Oct 3rd  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”… on Sherpa.

Please pardon me if I don’t take another look.

 

I scrounged 7 comp tickets for our group from the manager at the BassetPlexII… that’s all cos he says it’s been very popular…. imagine THAT.

I think it’ll be plenty… let me know if you’d like one…

Or if you’d rather come with me and Montana Lady to watch… um…. just about anything else.

 

He said we could probably have about 6 tickets for a different film, depending on what’s playing and which one we want to see.

At first he thought I wanted kid’s tickets…. for our children or grandchildren who were too young to come with us while we watched “BassIT”!

I said no, they were for those of US who prefer looking at the screen to hiding behind a row of seats,

 

I remember looking and looking for the poster the humans copied from this one.

They didn’t actually use it for their movie… but I found this experimental one….

I’d saved the link, cos Stel said it was, indeed, the one she thought was based on her poster.

 

https://alternativemovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/glitchway_it.jpg

 

Are we sure Polly made those spatial arrangements on purpose to affect those changes?

Or that it was even she who made them?

Yeah, probably so, on both counts…. but I like to think I don’t jump to conclusions.

I suppose I might as well…. I need more exercise, and there aren’t that many things I can jump to.

I also use a lot of run-on sentences…. just to add an extra bit of physical activity.

 

Lewis Bower, above, mentioned “Waiting for God.”

It was a 1990’s British sitcom.

Did anybody else here ever see it? Sooo funny.

When I was about six, my family moved to Cleveland …

(Yes… home of the assorted Cliffords.)

 

My parents always wanted everything brand new… but with three kids, on military pay, we rented an unfurnished older home… not that I understood that stuff..

The previous tenants had left a few things behind, … which horrified my mother…

including a ceramic cookie jar shaped like a clown’s head.

Mom wanted to immediately throw it away… but we kids were enchanted and begged her to keep it.

Years later I realised how astonished she must have been when my father liked it too.

 

With great reluctance, she washed it … eventually bringing herself to put cookies in it….

and it became a family treasure, to four out of five of us.

It held cookies in Cleveland, in Tripoli, Libya…. in Wisconsin… it came to California, and stayed with my parents when I had moved out.

It went with them to Virginia when my Dad worked briefly at the Pentagon… he wouldn’t let her throw it away.

Finally, with great glee, she gave it away with their other “junk”, before their move back to California, in the late 1960’s.

All of us were upset… even my Dad.

 

A few years later I was selling collectibles, and discovered that it was a McCoy cookie jar… at that time “worth” about a hundred bucks. (Strangely, they sell for less now.)

I eventually found one for myself at a flea market for $15 or so… which I still have… and over a couple of years, almost identical ones for my siblings, so we all had “the” cookie jar…

My father was confused, at first.

My mother had passed away…. he thought one of us somehow got “his” missing cookie jar.

 

The point?

Yeah…. c’mon Susan…. the point.

Just tonight, I was struck by the resemblance of my beloved cookie jar to that horrid poster.

This is not mine… but an almost identical one:

https://i.postimg.cc/JzY8bm7r/Mc-Coy-Clown-ebay.png

 

PLEASE tell me it isn’t true!

That’s why he put them there.

Putting the bass in bassIT.

Since when did reddie replace purplie at the top of C&C “go to” movie poster color list?

(What’s next? Will Shutesbury replace Belchertown as the city of choice for C&C satirical comments?)

@StelBel: That is a freakishly good (and scary) poster. I’d hate to meet that thing in a dark alley.

Doesn’t Polly find Paul’s pipe even MORE of an impediment?

Posted publicly to FB with credits and link. And any other scary posters are going up there this month. I love these.

“You’ll float, too”

I’m with Susan! That is one scary poster! I don’t even want to go back and point out the finer parts of Stel’s art work. See? I told you clowns were scary!

I’d love to check out the BassetPlexII for any other movie with all y’all. I’ll treat for the kibble.

I do believe this is Stel’s scariest poster since September fifth’s “Snow Hound and the Seven Chihuahuas.” (Well, the movie seemed pretty scary to this four year old…!)