That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 06, 2024

“I’ll take books I will never read for 400, Ken.”

Worst…Librarian…Ever!

/// Hartnett titled this oil, “Job Lot Cheap.”

Random books sold in bulk in a heap.

Ignore dog-ears and stains;

check out what each contains.

You may find some that you’d want to keep.

Stress out the MAGATs, read banned books!

Harnett was going to do nude paintings, but his wife came home early.

The results of someone saying, “Book `em, Danno!”

On the first run I wrote:

After weeks of standing up in a well ordered line while the artist was painting them for a poster for libraries, the books finally get to relax.

Hey! Who let that Kondo woman into my library! She wants to throw out some of my most precious books!

AND NOW FROM LONDON: Rioting has broken out as the winners of the 2024 Man-Booker Prize was announced. It is believed at this time that the fighting broke out between books of different fonts and spilled over as books from different publishing houses joined in the general melee. More news at six.

Why I’m No Longer Allowed In My Local Library, 1878

Cause its too hot Baby…

It’s a hot topic how they got burned in that movie.

My book “Organizing Your Life” is here somewhere

“The Reader” minus the nudity.

The alternate title of this painting is “Spine Adjustments” and it was done by a chiropractor who also thinks he’s a comedian and an artist.

The estate sale was not a success/

His survivors were forced to confess/

His book-cluttered abode/

Convincingly showed/

That all he had left was a mess.

What’s left after Moms for Liberty visit the library.

sadly, none survived the opening night…

Librarian Miss Marian is out to lunch with the Music Man!

To say the Mr. Dewey was horrified at how the new librarian put the books back in the stacks would be an understatement!

His library’s in disarray/

Pray, how did it get that way?/

A heated dispute/

Twixt two gents – both astute/

Which devolved to a physical fray…

Job Lot Cheap: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1870s still-life paintings" 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 215, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting, including a pointer to the museum’s Description (explains the title if you find that necessary, among other details). File history has the strip coloration image source. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2486 (7/7/20) (June 5, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the July 7, 2020, strip being its first use.

“Reclining Nude, The Librarian Seduction,” found favor in small circles, but was mostly relegated to the librarian break room, next to the tea kettle.

There is much to appreciate here but what i really love is the spell check line under Harnett. There it is again. All is in synch.