That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 20, 2024

Minerva: “Mars, you want to double that bet you’re placing on Troy? I’ll give you wooden horse point spread.”

“Mars, how many time have I told you to put the seat down?”

/// They’re discussing the war with great fervor.

Perched upon a thick cloud we observe a

Roman god and a goddess

(in a tight armored bodice),

the half-siblings called Mars and Minerva.

/// It so happens they’re both martial gods

who control warfare— what are the odds?

She’s strategic and wise,

he’s for fierceness and size,

so, at times, they each back different squads.

She seems to have brought a report/

To a mythical god, holding court/

Who is lying athwart/

A seat of some sort/

With no visible means of support..

I suspect he’s going to rain on her parade.

He’s thinking about storming some breastworks.

Now if he were Zeus, he’d be making some lightning moves…

Between “do you come here often?” and “You must be new here” They bought a can opener and split.

See those things comin’ at us? Them’s fighter jets!!

“How many times do I have to tell you, what happens in the cloud, stays in the cloud!”

Mars, sitting on his throne after too much cabbage and beer on St. Patty’s day.

Does that bra close in the back, or is it a front …

As the Rolling Stone said “ I said, "Hey, hey, you, you, get off of my cloud”

I am sorry, but you just weren’t a good enough person for your personal angel to be naked.

A brassiere that is made made out of brass/

May be a protective mass/

And offer protection/

From the forward direction-/

But how do you cover your @$$?

“How many times have I warned you? DO NOT CALL ME MINNIE!! Yeah, you had BETTER cross your legs!”

Ah! Another offering from the “Great Moments in Trans History” art collection.

“Look, I’m tired of you sitting around day after day. Get off your ash and get a real job!”

She: You think wearing this metal bra is sexy, then try wearing a metal jock strap and see if that js

“Sure, maybe you’re happy here on Cloud Eight, but you should see how they’re living on the next cloud up!”

“Yes, the waiting room is infinitely large, but there are only a few trillion ahead of you.”

“You say you’d like for us to undress each other reeeeaaalll slow? Well, you’re in for a treat. I’ll get the keys, the pliers, and wrenches.”

“Yes, I know we are fine and dandy here on Cloud 8, but check out the party going on over there next door!”

“It’s one thing being outfitted with a steel bra here in the afterlife, but did they have to give me a steel chastity belt too?”

Mars and Minerva: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl" 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 Minerva, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting, actually by the named artist’s workshop. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3290 (March 20, 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 to the info about the named artist I used to point to here. Only work associated with him used here so far.

Not a very good job with the hip and leg of the man.

Val and Halla finally come up with a name for the place they’re in.

Damm this steel bra. i pictured Heven having much less clothes.

OK, you one the musical chairs this time. Best 2 out of 3?

His personal stylist has gone too heavy on the rouge and lipstick… good thing mirrors haven’t been invented yet.

Is ghat the Mask of Tragedy on her bra?