Melancholy Musings Mugs

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

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

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

Paint the town bleak.

Happy hour bar vs. miserable hour bar.

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

Pastorius wonders why.

"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."

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

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."

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

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

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

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

Bored couple.

Tears

"Fall makes him sad."

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

Picasso's Blues Period

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

There's a tear in my beer.

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

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

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

"I like sad songs."