Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 05, 2016

You can never have too many gewgaws.

Nothing short of anaesthetic will stop this.

I read that a decorating book from 1910 said that every household needs at least one breakfast set of linens and they cloth should have tassels or drops of some sort on each corner.Does a plasticl table cloth with closepins on the corners count?

Rose, just let the cats shred the table cloth and then tie the tails with rubber bands. (No not the cat’s tails)

I can’t blame Lois either…She’s doing a great job!

And after all, Ralph’s aesthetic seems to involve a football game on the TV screen, 2 pairs of shoes on the living room floor and three days of rumpled newspapers on the coffee table.

Plus that orange stuff that falls off Cheetos all over the cushions on his side of the couch..

Ralph, if your aesthetics have no direction then your home will just devolve in to utter chaos.

And, Please , Please no one bring up the band “1 Direction”.Aw crap I just did.

Hey Susan,Can I buy you a beer for the New Year?

Why, thank you, X…I’d enjoy that.

Say, did StelBel design that brand?

Now why ever would you think that?

Well, it says “Directors”…and she is a Queen, you know…and sometimes she wears a rooster costume….And…um… never mind…

Well, you don’t have to get cocky about it.

X! You know I’m too chicken to be cocky when it comes to StelBel!

Sound, beviek; we need sound. Audio, even.

With sagging bellies and low-slung pants, like me.

Moments before the hoarding intervention!

Beviek…on your 1970 Iran photo….I remember back in 1967 coming home from living in Pakistan and we stayed three days in Beruit. It was the pearl of the Mediterranean back then. The Monte Carlo of the Middle East.How things use to be.But we never saw the behind the scenes of those governments…..we liked them because they liked us so we threw money at them to keep them on our side while they did many horrors to their citizens. However the citizens when they revolted found themselves in worse situation.Like the Who song…..Meet the New Boss….Same as the Old Boss.

I think the director needs to be redirected.Susan, I like the way your hair is growing in.