Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 31, 2024

As opposed to inappropriately exuberant.

Joey had great abs when he was younger.

Poor Ethyl, nobody warned her not to look and she was appropriately shocked by Joey’s Johnson

Joey often day dreams about being a sumo wrestler…sometimes those day dreams become too vivid.

Oh. My. Gawd. Honey call Constable Perkins, Joey is at it again. Oh shoot, he’s drawing a crowd. I swear I’m putting the house on the market. Junior! Pull down those blinds! Mutter mutter.

I’m surprised they didn’t faint.

Oh my, Ethyl’s dropped her handbag. There will be Heck to pay.

MY EYEEEEEEEEES!!!! X_X

Sumo Johnson.

Call the police! Joey escaped again.

After a strict weight-gain diet, Joey plans to enter Sumō wrestling under his new professional name, Saké Toomi.

Joey remains blissfully unaware his six-pack has long become a pony keg.

Guess who’s in training for the Cupid role in the upcoming Ballard Street Players Playhouse presentation re-interpreting A Streetcar Named Desire for Valentine’s Day…

Joey simply prefers to live life free of cardboard inserts.

I have to share this with Joey. He lives two doors down.

Pick up your purse Margaret and just walk away.

He has delusions of sumo-ness.

Nobody wants to see sumo a that.

Good morning Balladeers!

Joey used to streak in the ’70’s. Now that he is in his 70’s the only streak is in the back of his mawashi.

“Don’t look, Ethel!”

But it was too late, she’d seen Joey’s exuberance…

(Anyone notice how Ethel always gets a good look? ☺)

Probably a breach of an ordinance or two.

Joeys exuberance could be contagious, soon all the men on Ballard St will be wearing mawashi to excite the ladies.

At least Joey is not celebrating his exuberance at an elementary school.

Summer Sumo Wear is never going to be popular. :)

Johnson likes to show off his bundle of Joey.

Joey just wants everyone to know that you don’t need to have pencil legs to live on Ballard Street.

And there’s Arthur later that day…

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And yet somehow he once again manages to pull it off, earning the neighborhood ‘Best Bedsheet Wrap’ 3 years in a row.

There went my lunch.

My eyes! My eyes!

“Ya gotta have a sense of humor,” Joey insists, “after ya land the Depends account!”

once again, joey puts the “fun” in fundoshi…

Joey is proud that his plaque psoriasis is cured and wants everyone to see the impressive results of his medication.

Sumo quality he is not.

He is an embarassment to his former sumo wrestling compatriots. They believe he is dishonoring his mawashi.