That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 22, 2023

She said she would play for food and that’s what she got.

/// Manet’s Street Singer stops for a snack,

gobbling fruit from a brown paper sack.

She believes, (though some scoff),

that wild cherries cure cough.

People pay her to sing, not to hack.

When her young student declared that she was going to be married off (against her will) to a man three times her age, Judith came up with a plan to smuggle her away from that abhorrent family after music lessons that very day.

Marie thought that since wine came from grapes, she would take a short cut.

The drape of Louise’s cape /

Is perfect for eating a grape/

The reason it’s right/

Is that with every bite/

A couple of droplets escape..

Ann was sure her levitating sweets could solve the energy crisis if she ever got someone in government tolisten to her.

DoorDash skimming.

I think these have started to ferment, MORE GRAPES QUICKLY!!!!

Manet’s favorite model, Victorine Meurent, stood in for an actual “Street Singer,” who declined to pose, and went away laughing — thus unknowingly losing the chance of a bit of artistic immortality.

In my imagination the pictured singer left the cabaret discouraged, as even in burlesque, proper enunciation is important. Thus she will fill her mouth with cherries to practice clear singing style, as the Ancient Greek Demosthenes filled his mouth with pebbles to practice clear oratory.

As model, Victorine seems to gaze with studied indifference at the onlooker, as if to pout, “Me you rent? I am no ‘demi-mondaine’!” With some effort, she resists braining him with her guitar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.Org/wiki/The_Street_Singer_(Manet)

(It might be of interest to realize that while here Mlle. Meurent poses in voluminous clothing, when in pose for Manet’s “Olympia” she wore only a black neck ribbon, pearl earrings, a bracelet, and an orchid in her hair! Oh … and slippers!)

“I hate grapes! I can’t stand grapes! I loathe grapes! All kinds of grapes! I hate purple grapes! I hate green grapes! I hate grapes with seeds! I hate grapes without seeds! I hate them peeled and non-peeled! I hate grapes in bunches, one at a time, or in groups of twos and threes! I f-ing hate grapes!” – Psychos in Love

Eeww, these grapes are unpeeled.

i got these at Bucky’s.

Then the theater manage had a brilliant idea, “maybe we should sell popcorn for insane prices!”

They say she is losing her shape/

Since becoming a slave to the grape../

It’s a dreadful addiction/

And Manet’s depiction/

Suggests that she’ll never escape..

(But at least she’s not starting to vape..)

Does this dress make my butt look big? Actually, I don’t care.

Coming offstage, she wished that the men had thrown underwear, like in her early days, but she’d settle for grapes.

Looks more like chocolate brownies…

She likely was the inspiration for Moby Grape in the 60’s

“Dangit, I was going to use those grapes in a still life! Whatever, I’ll paint you instead.”

I am starving and they haven’t put the turkey in the oven…..munch, munch……..

’Can’t help wondering — did the lady have bad teeth / a terrible smile that she wanted to be certain was hidden? Seriously.

Though you may be a trifle miffed/

You will probably get my drift/

If I misread the room/

And rashly assume/

That she isn’t a French Taylor Swift…

The heckler misunderstood when told to throw fruit at the unappreciated guitarist.

I dunno…she looks pregnant to me….

Street Singer: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Female vocalists in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex 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 Street, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this almost lifesize painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3226 (November 22, 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 and replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 20 works by him have been used here (22 times total, including 2 repeats), the November November 20, 2023, strip being the prior.

Marilyn Monroe’s grape grandmother standing over a street vent.

mavin the witch saved all the testes from her city and ate them at her leisure.

“La Chanteuse de Rue,” 1862

What? …

They didn’t have any gray poupon!

Gertrude wondering how Janis ever made it….