That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 11, 2022

My original post in 2017:

“Maybe he’ll get a clue if I bend over this chair.”

/// Fleur returned to the doorway to spy

on that strangely unmoving young guy.

A “Performance Art” show,

or waxwork by Tussaud?

Is he paralyzed, and, if so, why?

Early version of the Patty Duke show where Patty plays both cousins…

Those guys have been transfixed like that all football season.

The really sad thing is that this was before football was even invented.

note: this works for football on either side of the Atlantic

I wonder what was in that punch. The doorway seems so much bigger now and I can barely keep my balance. AND HE looks REALLY cute. My, it’s getting warm in this frock.

Veronica was disappointed. This whole voyeurism fetish wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.

Alec knew his mother was waiting for him to leave his room to pepper him with all kinds of questions about his new girlfriend.

The artist had no idea – he sat uninspired in dismay/

He faced the Salon/

(Where it’s always “game on” !)

To compete with Seurat and Monet…///

When Suzanne wandered into his vision/

In a garment of blinding white/

Whenever she’s there/

She lifts his despair,/

For she sets the atelier alight !///

And he rushed to his brushes and canvas/

Lest his idea go astray/

For from sunshine to gloom/

It’s a different room/

At different times of the day..

I think it’s obvious that She / Has quite a fixation on He. / But He’s blissfully unaware / Of She languishing by the chair. / On the tides of romance, they’re both lost at sea.

The Studio of Ingres in Rome: 

is the title of both works, both painted in the same year, depicting the same people. 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaux_Atelier_Ingres_2eme_version.jpg 

and 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaux_Atelier_Ingres_Montauban.jpg 

provide info (best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) and links that point to more info about both roughly jumbo envelope size paintings.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1683 (4/10/17) (August 10, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 2 works, by this artist, have been used here (in a single strip, now shown twice, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the April 10, 2017, strip being their first use (the 21 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative).

“I lowered my neckline by an inch to get him to notice me. Or will he think I am being too forward?! Fussy or floozy — which would turn him on??”

The same scene in parallel universes.

“You know, with all the time you spend in there, I could easily sneak my paramour in.”

“As if you’ve got a paramour.”

She: Just what is going on in that room…….?

Everyone knew that Pierre/

Was collecting fresh p*b1c hair/

But only a few/

Of his closest friends knew/

That he kept it under that chair.

He was planning to weave a mat/

But keeping it under his hat/

Til the big “reveal”:/

When he’d storm the Bastille/

Or perhaps he would paint the Grand Jatte..///

But waited too long for that coup/

So instead he painted a few/

Of his famed Odalisques/

Thus avoiding the risks/

Of trying anything new..

Ishmael has conflated Auguste Renoir (of the chubby nudes in the water) with Auguste Dominique Ingres, of the chubby harem girls (Odalisques). Who cares – not I…

Leander, having just returned from her eye dr. appointment can’t seem to stop her double vision. she will wait a few more moments to see if she can see.

Wow! That super glue stuff works better than advertised!

It is funny that this series are screenshots from Word with spell checker squiggles on them.