That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 29, 2022

/// The boy bitten by a small lizard,

had been trying to cut out its gizzard.

Toe of frog, eye of newt,

were all used in pursuit

of his quest to become a great wizard.

First, he baited him with a charming Australian accent.

Then, he went for the finger.

He was told not to play with his lizard, but he couldn’t help himself.

That’s just a really weird painting.

Oh poop! It’s the other finger in the water that makes you Wet the bed.

My first thoughts on seeing this was, what the he##….

Oh no, it must be after the Precious, thinks Sméagol.

“@#$&%!! When I said ‘bite me’, I didn’t mean literally !”

Leftover from Thursday:

“The contents of Lydia’s box/

Other people send posies/

But she’s dipherent from thosies:/

She’s dephiantly heterodox.

“Cricket is my nickname you stupid lizard.”

A lizard’s a petulant beast/

He thinks you’re “A Moveable Feast”/

Though you may change your venue/

You are still on his menu/

He just doesn’t care in the least..

Why the hell would you put pineapple on a pizza?

Quasimodo’s Italian cousin, Quasigobbo.

I am not as think as you drunk I am!

neophyte male prostitute, not certain how to attract customers.

♬It’s just a jump to the left / And then a step to the right♬

♬Put your hands on your hips / You bring your knees in tight♬

♬But it’s the pelvic thrust / That really drives you insane♬

♬Let’s do the Time Warp again♬

♬Let’s do the Time Warp again♬

That after I slept with my cousin feeling.

The Monitor Lizard’s the one/

You ought to determinedly shun/

A full ten feet long/

And incredibly strong/

If he gets his teeth in you, you’re done!

Bruce had been warned about sticking his finger in someplace where it didn’t belong … but of course, he never listened.

Caravaggio may have been gay/

(But that isn’t for me to say)/

But he carries the banner/

Of the Mannerist manner/

And his influence ain’t gone away.///

As a person he may have been vile/

High drama infuses his style/

And his great “chiaroscuro”/

Never earned him a Euro/

But his paintings are now worth a pile.

There was an official last Jackass movie? Maybe there’s hope for humanity yet.

Before photography was invented, catching someone in the middle of a sneeze was really tricky.

The painting was ruined! There was no way she was going to get the still life arrangement back to its original state to continue the work in progress. If only he hadn’t startled her by dropping his palette on the dog’s tail.

On awakening from the anesthesia, “Suzy” was horrified to learn there was more to trans surgery than getting an eyebrow lift.

Boy Bitten by a Lizard: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Caravaggio - Boy Bitten by a Lizard.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Yandex, Bing, and Yahoo search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first File: link found 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 #2921 (April 29, 2022) 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 (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 6 works, by this artist, have been used here. The March 4, 2014, strip has the prior (the 26 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative).

Doesn’t really look like a boy. Before I saw the lizard I thought it was a young Norma Desmond getting ready for her close-up.

How on Earth did Caravaggio get the lizard to bite the boy on cue?

OK! That puts my “Truth or Dare” in perspective …

Wow, I’ve never seen one that big!

Sir Ranulph Fiennes starts chopping off his fingers..