That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 07, 2023

/// Don’t expect me to link what he sees

to that word oft preceded by “Deez…”

(Readers, please understand—

it’s no fun to be banned.)

From those strings dangles scamorza cheese.

(That’s what the very lengthy title of this painting says, anyway: ”A Young Man Holding a Burning Candle and a Scamorza Cheese, a Fiasco Bottle Beside Him” according to Google.)

Diogenes found the parts of an honest man.

The bullies told him he had no stones; he’d show them!

Martin was all set for romantic candle light dinner with a bottle of wine and couple balls of cheese. Now all he needed was a date.

A young man holding a burning candle and a scamorza cheese, a fiasco bottle beside him: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Images from Christie’s by Gerard van Honthorst" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string cheese, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3092 (March 6, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here, the January 9, 2023, strip being the prior.

He put a feather in his cap and called it macaroni.

Hence, the invention of Mac & Cheese.

/// Was it worth it, to pledge with his frat,

when odd memories flash back like that?

He recalls he was pickled

and how badly it tickled

when they made him squat nude on his hat.

Aha, now I see…

Reminds me of my old friend Coe. You remember him, Coe Jones. (Lets see what we can sneak under the radar here.)

What disturbs me the most is it seems to be a fond memory, by the look on his face.

We haven’t seen a phallic portraiture edition in awhile, unless I missed it. Makes me wonder if that is due to the surging Victorianesque sensibilities on this site.

Jonny loved Ed but wanted a girl, one slice and problem solved.

Ah yes, yearning for the gelded age.

In a Greek fraternity, they’re called tau bags.

Before you wish upon a star, you must first start small.

The wine made him spunky…the cheese was pretty funky… with clothes in disarray…..a feather in his hat and a candle to light his way!

Looking for someone to pay his student loan to be a cheese whiz.

He had to settle for cheese, the contents of the bottle were a complete fiasco.