This week’s art is a photograph. Photography, after all, is an art form, and this thoughtfully-composed still life of three fearsome and bedraggled plush creatures wreaking havoc at a Denny’s eating establishment is a searing socio-political commentary about the oppression of the common man and the existential struggle to get enough ketchup.

Which is, of course, a metaphor.

For a tomatoed sauce.

Either that, or this is one of the photos we took to amuse our friend in the UK, Pixie, who actually gifted us the lovely Skull Panda in the photo, whom Mel has named, “Ivory.”  You met Pixie in Monday Morning Art HERE.

For a while now, we have been taking photos of Mel’s travelling Squidward, who was later joined by Plankton, and sending them to Pixie as a way of sharing our travels with her. We sorta stole the idea from Bessie The Traveling Cow.  This particular photo was taken while we were waiting for lunch a few months ago.

Since we’ll be on the road during the time of the week that I’d normally be drawing or painting, I decided to go with this photo, rather than pull something out of the slush pile.

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR,  we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page. Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 8 PM, tune in for a classic edition of The Comedy Vault. That’s followed by two-hour blocks of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast at 9 PM and 11 PM, and then an overnight assortment of our Haversham Recording Institute programs at 1 AM.