That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 30, 2024

This is what you would get if Dracula and the Wolfman had a love-child

“I said, paint my beard down to here!”

/// Barbarossa’s flamboyant with fashion.

His rich silks show off wealth and his passion

for a style to provoke.

Yet he donned a black cloak.

Lotto said “Pink and orange are clashin’.”

The original spokesman for Grey Poupon.

After his unexpected ascension to the British throne, King Harry sold all the traditional royal residences and used the funds to buy Italy and Greece before the American President and Elon Musk could acquire them.

That’s not a widow’s peak; it’s a widow’s Mount Everest.

“I’m not only the founder of the Hair Club, but I’m also a client”

Excuse me, my change is short a nickel!

He’s bound for the Supreme Court,/

Appointed by “Voldemort”./

The appointment’s a crime/

But we’ve run out of time:/

And it’s simply too late to abort.

Tina Louise will forever be Ginger.

Did all the ones before us really hold their hands like that? Reminds me of the models on TV that try to show a product in a more captivating way…..

Actor Donny “Barbarosa” Most couldn’t understand why he failed to get the part of Barnabas in Dark Shadows.

Voila! all this and a bag of chips!

Hate it when someone who lives off of the written word blows the Subjunctive tense. It’s like scratching on a chalkboard. “If Steve Melcher were an energy vampire…”

Trump’s second son in later years. Certainly has his father’s hands.

He has the boyish charm of a young Henry VIII with the subtle menace of a soon to be President.

Portrait of a Bearded Man: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Undated paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Brave 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 K208, 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 #3435 (December 30, 2024) 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 the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 5 works by him have been used here, the July 12, 2024, strip being the prior.

The childhood tutor demonstrating both the proper and improper ways to rest one’s hand in one’s clothes, in the hopes that young Napoleon would change from embarrassing everyone around him.

If Dracula were a ginger.

Christopher demonstrating how he gently caresses to induce a state of relaxation.

Portrait of the next actor to be chose to play The Doctor in Dr. Who. After all, he (the character) said, “Aww, I wanted to be ginger. I’ve never been ginger!”.

Do you want a Hello Kitty bandaid for that owie on your thumb? :)

If there isn’t a copy of this on a board you can stick your head through for a portrait, there ought to be.