Melancholic Muse Mugs

"The pit of despair. That's new, isn't it?"

A depressed artist imagines a drawing, but it turns black.

"Happy hour makes it all worthwhile!"

The Bar & Grill of Ordinary Men: Quiet Desperation 11 am - closing (Karaoke on Saturday)

Pastorius wonders why.

I've decided to shift down a few gears.'

"I've got those 'Don't worry about me, I'll just be here, all alone' blues."

"The artist-in-residence is struggling a bit, but other than that we're fine."

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

Lord Byron

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'I hate my life.

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

"Half-full. Those were the days."

"Woke up this mornin', Found myself trapped in the Blues genre..."

'As I feared, the X-ray shows that you are crying inside.'

"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

"I never got a chance to say 'Shut up.' "

'I think our marriage would make a great country song.'

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Picasso's Blues Period

"Fall makes him sad."

Tears

Bored couple.

Sad Songs.

There's a tear in my beer.

'Boy...usually it just gently weeps.'

Where the boulevard of broken dreams crosses the avenue of broken appliances...

"I like sad songs."

Philip Larkin.

'Your work is so bleak, so despairing, your angst so wrenching. I've never read a party invitation quite like it before.'

'We thought it fit his rather plaintive personality.'