Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 27, 2020

oh, the terror

Not sooo loud, don’t make a sound, can’t you see we’re just monkeying arouuuuund.

Just remember, Kids, how excited you were that piano was coming? So now, you can Grimace & bear it!

Miss Bliss is inhabiting her own musical.

Her musical prowess is why Tommy Banjoman keeps asking for her hand in marriage.

I didn’t have a piano in my preschool classroom but I remember a teacher who would always sing “Get out your work-a-book-a!” I think I attacked her.

Notice how Dill politely waits his turn at pillaging the piano.

Miss Bliss as a cabaret singer?

Stifle that Bucket ;~|

What’s the difference between a musician and an Extra Large Pizza?

An Extra Large Pizza can feed a family of four.

For me, everything IS a song cue.

The only pianist I have ever seen that would allow mistreatment of a piano is Jerry Lee Lewis. Not saying there aren’t others…

♪ And a one, and a two…everything’s a song cue…♪

In the abstract, that’s why I hate most musicals

“Iiiiiiiiiiii’m tyyyyyyyyying my shoelaces!

But I’m conflicted!

Does the rabbit go over the hill or under?

Does he come from the left or from the right?

Mustn’t leave it so I can’t untie it!

I have a daaaaaaaaaate toniiiiiiiiiiiiiight!"

You said it, Kevin! Too late, Alice!

This was always my dad. He loves music, and sometimes whenever I said something, he’d sing a song with that as a lyric. He knew a lot of songs!