The Saturday Picture Show, August 31, 2019

Living proof of the old expression "They're so cute when they're little!" This is a baby warthog at the peak of his/her cuteness.

Art like this is always a pleasure to see. It took great vision and a lot of work to see this wooden lion through.

This is heaven on the table for Baltimore. Steamed crabs and steamed shrimp. The trick is to save the corn until you've got crabs spices and whatnot all over the tablecloth (which is either wrapping paper or newspaper) and then you wipe the corn through all the mess to season it.

Still unexplained is the reason behind this gas explosion at an office/retail complex in Columbia, MD last Sunday. How fortunate that it occurred on a Sunday, without the offices and stores being full of people.

I always liked the Archie comics when I was a kid. I favored the minor characters such as Jughead Jones (I knew a guy who totally looked like him!), Reggie Mantle, Miss Grundy and Ms Weatherbee. I understand that these folks suffered the sad fate of winding up in a vaguely sci-fi sort of show in their later years. I remember Mr Lodge, Veronica's father, always wearing a silk ascot and a velvet smoking jacket. He said "Harrumph" all the time.

The guy in the red sunnies is Ryan Dorsey, a Baltimore City councilman. He is seen here on the subway in Tokyo, where he ran into a German tourist wearing the world-famous Baltimore Orioles cap. Dorsey said, "How bout them O's?" (the universal greeting) and the German said he had no idea who the O's are, but he liked the "duck" on the cap!

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there dwells an artist who brings new life to dull old street lights with colored chalk. Very nice work!

We bibliophiles secretly still miss the reassuring thump of the due-date stamp on a library book. Yes, it's all computerized now, but I miss the purple ink.