Melancholy Enthusiast Pillows

Graduating with Melancholy...

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

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

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

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

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

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.'

Trilby - 'Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre'.

"Our flavors of the day are Prodigal, Importune, and Mal de Siècle."

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

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

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

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

"Fall makes him sad."

Tears

Picasso's Blues Period

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

"I'm full of an unspeakable sadness and it goes a little something like this..."

Sad Songs.

"I like sad songs."

Tailpiece to E Dowson's 'The Pierrot of the Minute'

There's a tear in my beer.

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

Looking miserable out there today...

A Winter's Day by Mary Lou Fleckner

"This drink? It's called loneliness. Care to join me?"

Brenda Sanchez undergoes her daily moment of ‘Woe Is me.'

'We thought it fit his rather plaintive personality.'

Playing Sad Songs on the Piano.

"I'm not sad, just a little melon collie."

"I've had an unlucky life, my first wife died and my second wife wont"

And so it goes