BANANAS

Now Erni's White Bag could be sent around and things added inside...

(but not bananas...they rot too easily).

Send it , send it, Erni...and let's see what happens?

Yes :-) You may sent it to Kate...and then she will put something inside it and send it on to...Nancy, and she can put something inside and send it on to...

The bag even contains a photo on it of Erni sewing a boekie for Cheryl P!

Val

And it's about time he did that.

There's a mustache discussion going on somewhere run by KDJ: some of the gals there seem to have a peculiar facial hair fetish -- you could send it to them. Or loose it, as i did it when I sent it to the Superhero (who, I hear, as now left IUOMA).

val

Oh I like the Selma one.  Did Super Hero do it?  Who is Moanlisa.com?  Could this be a Cheryl Penn piece?

Well I like Selma, but I'm sure you have a long list of deserving followers.  I was reeally surprise that you said the Super Hero had done it.  You did a good job on that one.

The group seems to have drifted away from bananas so to steer back to a straight course here go my feverish banana nightmare.

and the next ...

and the last one, for now...

Thank you Martha, what a show!  Put your Banana Fever on four walls, add a mirror ball and dance the night away.  They are wild yet lovely.  Bravo!

Last weekend there was an Antiques fair on our street, so we had a walk around and found this:

The stall owner wanted 100 euros for the Banana painting which he told me was done with real paint and canvas.  It was signed Andy Wahol.  "Lost Art?";  I thought, but my wife just said, "Keep walking Dean, keep walking"

You should have bought it, Dean. Andy sold it to me for €25 some 30 or so years ago. And I sold it to a guy in Paris for €75  last month. So €100 wasn't a bad price all in all. 'Real paint and canvas?' Is her 'Pretened pain and canvas', I wonder, 

What a cool painting--I don't care who did it. Of course, if it's fake paint or a fake canvas, that would make it even more desirable because no one knows what that means. 

Wow, Val, you made big bucks ;--}   Maybe you should have shopped it around a bit more.

Ah Welcome to Irene who joined the Banana Band.  Irene, what I have seen from your photos, you should fit in just fine.  I can't wait to see bananas showing up in your work.  Happy to see you with us.

More Bananas than most and Banana Bar codes from Alicia Starr.  A double wammy indeed.  Thank you Alicia.

What's under some Bananas from ARAC.  I keep looking at it in disbelief.  Does anyone else think that this could be true.  I love the back ground

The Banana MAn can.  The Banana man can because he mixes it with art and makes the world feel good.  I received this Banana Man from MIM.  So far Mim has not passed the entering exams for level one Bananas.  But with a few more banana pieces, she will soon be here.  Thank you MiM.

Going Bananas from Katerina Nikoultsou.  A great collection of banana stickers on one of Katerina's blue paintings.  Thank you Katerina, Sincerely yours, Dean Blogging like bananas.

Josephine Baker drove Paris Bananas from Dame Mailarta.  Yes, those were the days.  And funny enough, the swimming pool I go to is named Josephine Baker.  But if she drove them bananas, what car did she use?  Thank for this Dame Mailarta, the details go on forever.

The Banana Car ready for action. Cool Batman

Dean, the 'BananaMan Can' is from me, but i take this as a compliment you thought it was from Mim. 

OH Sorry, the Helios Bananaman is from Alicia Starr and not Mim.  You can tell by the signature of a hill, two eyes, and a bit at the end.  I went back and looked at the other banana bar code one from Alicia and it has the same signature.  Funny enough is that when Mim was in Paris, she was looking all over for a French date stamp, and I saw that Alicia got one for her birthday.

    So here we go again, I present to you "Helios Bananaman" by Alicia Starr and her uncancelled stamps & signature:

Ops, that was the back side, wait one seconds, ah wa la;

Ah here is the real Mc Coy    Helios, god of the sun and ripener of bananas.

Thank you to Carina for sending me a Banana adventure.  So I thought to myself, this should be easy enough ... I should be able to do this and be back in Paris for dinner ... I thought.

So I arrive in Finland, and take the train to Allerod,(the "o" really has two funny dots on top, just in case you confuse it with another city)  I get off the train and jump into the first taxis I could find.

I say to the taxis driver; "Lyngevej, banana Lyngevej?"  The taxis driver does not understand me, so I try to speak louder; "LYNGEVEJ, BANANA LYNGEVEJ?"  still doesn't understand me, so I try my luck with the moose, deer, or whatever that animal is, "Lyngevej, banana Lyngevej?"   The moose looks at me, then looks at the driver, noods its head up and down, and I step on to sled, and we start off. "great, here we go", I thought, but we arrived at the nearest Finnish police station, and I was put straight in jail.   And no, I didn't leave a tip for the moose!  Thank you Carina ... really!

Welcome OH Boy!  And Oh Boy did you join a band of bananas.  As you can see from below, I must warn you about banana hunts that some of the members may send you.  We are all looking forward to your Banana mail.

Ha ha what an adventure and what a great story Dean! Sorry for the police station.I do not understand why the reindeer did not obey, mine obey all times! Well, I recomend kick-sledge in next adventure... :) Thank you .... :))

Many cool Banana mail lately...!

Ah that might have been the problem.  It's a reindeer, of course.  I was speaking to it in Moose, and was not prononcing the two funny dots on the top of the "O".

  I bet the reindeer thought I said; "Take me to the police station, I'm crazy"   Yep that's it, I just put it into Google translate, and from Moose to Reindeer,  the word "crazy" in Moose is "banana" in Reindeer.

   So that explains it all.  Thank you Carina for making that clear.

Hot Banana stuff from Dame Mailarta or is it Snappy?  It's time to rethink.  Very fun with a feel of pro lying under it all.   Dame Mailarta has the eye and is no beginner in the Banana world.  Thank you

I could have abs like this, but I don't want to... it might give me a banana head!

Oomlauts are eaten with bananas in Germany, nicht waar, Erni?

Right on, Erni B! You mght have heard of my Incredible Story of The Exploding Scrabble Factory and Language Differences in Western and Central Europe, but if you haven't it's so Incredible that I will tell it again.

Once upon A Time there was a Scrabble Factory located somewhere in the sky. It made Scrabble boards, Scrabble boxes, Scrabble instructions, and, most importantly, Scrabble letters.

One day, no one very sad day, there was an explosion in the Factory which was totally destroyed. All the letters -- billions of them -- were scattered all over the European continent. They did not fall randomly -- Finland, for example, got all the 'k's. France got a lot of very strange letters with accents -- é,è,ç,à, and ^. Poland ended up with a lot of letters with accents, and not many without accents. Ireland received all the capital 'o's: 'O'. Germany, quite obviously, got all the Umlaute. At this stage I should add in all the umlauted 'a's and'o's and 'u's, but they aren't on my keyboard.

There are several University Departments of Language and Linguistics that owe their continued existence to working all of this out, and contributing in their own academic way to this Incredible Story.

That's all, Erni B -- and because I don't have umlaute I can't put in your last name in full.

Vàléntinè Màrç Hérmàn

Wöw, all this just because I mentioned twö funny döts?  Amazing where the mind can gö!   Bare Bär with me ...

Val you can get all the umlauted vowels you wish in any key board. With those funny little numbers on the side and pressing Alt at the same time. I don't do it not 'cos I couldn't and not 'cos I wouldn't but because I am the laziest girl in IUOMA.

Funny photos Ernï, is that my German Grandmother in the back of te banana?

ALL THINGS MUST PASS-EVEN BANANAS....

Thank you Mail Arting Martha. So you're lazy, and don't do these type of things? I'm lazy, completely uninterested in the technology of the keyboard and just about everything else, and have managed to live without umlaute for all of my life so far, and I think I can continue to do so in the future. Well, I hope I can. Dean says you might be making a film together? I was sort of in a film one, Pasolini's 'Canterbury Tales'. the 'sort of' is important, and I can bore you with it if you like. Bestest, Val

Wow, Mike Dickau, that is some past banana. Wow. Looks like a science project. Which I guess it is at least partly.

Or is it driftwood.

Nancy! I found this beautiful fungus covered banana at the bottom of my travel case. Anyway, I kinda liked it-I used to teach biology. Would have been a great specimen for my students to investigate instead of growing fungus in Petri dishes...

Clever Lisa--it does! But can you imagine a banana reaching that state without stinking up a travel case? Mike, had the banana's ability to give off smell disappeared in a sort of slow-motion implosion? For biology class I remember trying to grow a "chemical garden" in a glass pie-plate on my mother's kitchen counter, for weeks and weeks, and it became pink and so fragile that you couldn't even breathe on it, never mind pick it up and take it to school.  

It is vile and disgusting-but, you can't look away...The aroma did tip me off to what was going on. Ah, yes-the Circle of Life. I always thought art and biology do mix. It might just come down to your personal inclinations. 

Of course, bananas are the main topic of this group:

Ok, but vile/disgusting shouldn't be ruled out. Bananas can run the gamut. I'm sure Dean doesn't want to censor possibilities, such as what you have beautifully demonstrated tonight, Mike. And art and biology can easily mix, I agree. 

Agreed! Cool! Onward!

It's wonderful to see that the Americas take over Banana Land while we are sleeping.  No wonder I had Banana nightmares last night!

I like the 1987 modern version.

GO BANANA SLUGS!

DID SOMEBODY SAY UMLAUT?

Only in America ...   thanks for the laugh Mike.

Love that Dieter Roth banana-on-broken-glass, it's fabulous. And everything that's been posted since then. Mike, why do you have an umlaut up there? Not that you need a reason. And we have another delectable corner of Hamburg.

Les Bananes à Paris,  I got a electronic copy of this from Cheryl H.  It's fun.

No Mike, we said "Banana Slugs"?  What a strange name for a ice hockey team!