That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 19, 2021

Stephan always thought people wanted to steal his hat.

“Are you making eyes on my trees? Don’t even think it!”

Is that CGI? It looks like CGI. It has the CGI ‘glow’

Dammit, I forget my mask, sorry can I borrow one please?

Stephan didn’t like the way the painter kept crowding into his personal space

“These are aspens. Because they all come from one root they are the largest living organism known to mankind…besides my wife, that is.”

“One of these days, Farkas, one of these days….POW! right in the goulash!”

Before landing the role as James Bond, Connery played the house detective at Cotswold.

pál demonstrating why his high school class voted him most likely to be nicknamed ‘dapper dan’…

As nearly as Saul can recall/ the bear seemed remarkably small./ being too brave to flee/ he just mimicked a tree./ Saul’s been laid up for weeks, after all…

To cross him his foes scarcely dare/ put off by his murderous glare/ neither Senate nor House/ can stand up to the louse/ – but he didn’t impress the bear.

The bear settled for the hat, and now he’s one debonair bear while Saul has wind blown hair.

Ok. I see the bear. But where is Saul?

I immediately thought of French actor Antoine Dulery, which if you’ve never seen The Little Murders of Agatha Christie, means nothing to you. Where’s Rentier?

Better maul Saul

stupid spell check, not mistaken, eaten. Saul was eaten.

He lives a few doors down.

“Hey you, yeah you. What are you looking at?”

Because the bear was Hungary.

Simon Callow wonders whether to go to Weight Watchers

Does this brown jacket make my aspen look big?

Tibor’s failed audition for the movie ‘Taxi Driver’ is found in the archives — “You are make looking at me? …. YOU ARE MAKE LOOKING AT MEEEE???”

Saul lives in a world of suspicion/ like a Czarist spy, on a mission/ but girls are not caring/ for Saul’s bearish bearing/ so Saul never achieves coition.

Inspectors Clouseau’s fake beard disguise would’ve been a lot more effective if he’d ditched his trademark coat and hat.

When I had scrolled my screen to where I could only see the image from the nose up, my first thought was Wilson from Home Improvement.

“The Larch…”

After carving an A for anarchy in the tree, he wandered off to the political demonstration where he was sure he would be unrecognized in his new disguise.

He didn’t have many options at that point.

The pilot for “Better Maul Saul”.

Please, keep the portrait on my top half, I forgot my pants.

The female bear is eyeing Hungarian Saul. I’ll bet the Czech is already in the male.

Hungarian psychiatrist investigating the “Nature” side of the “Nature vs. Nurture” debate.

This was what they put on his gravestone!

Self-portrait: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Szinyei_%C3%96narck%C3%A9p_1897.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this paintng.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/szinyei_merse_pal.html 

https://prabook.com/web/pavol.pal_szinyei_merse/1964843 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/s/szinyei/biograph.html 

http://pal-szinyei-merse.artworkdatabase.com/biography 

http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4jul/art0704.html 

http://www.hungarianreview.com/article/20190921_pal_szinyei_merse_european_spirit_hungarian_soul_on_the_impressions_of_the_pal_szinyei_merse 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2622 (January 18, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

His excessive concern for his suede/ a garment so proudly displayed/ may account for the fact/ that he’s never attacked/ by ladies who hope to get laid.

Yes, even in 1897 they were doing selfies.

I keep expecting his head to flip back a la Monte Python. Or at least his eyes to flit back and forth.

The bear mistook him for a female bear. Let’s not go into the details.

Drat. I thought you might be Dr. Livingstone.

Algie met a bear.

The bear was bulgy.

The bulge was Algie!

Saul – worst hide and seek player for 5 years running

When you think you’ve done good … you put a feather in your cap.

Narrator: “Saul was mistaken.”

With those clothes he’s lucky if he doesn’t get shot by some Yahoo from California with a Cow Elk Tag…

HEY isn’t that the guy they open up at the beginning of Monty Python’s Flying Circus