compliments

Bean thinks you're the greatest and wonders if there is anything you can't do. No really, you're fantastic.

raarrg!

Bean, having fun with mom's comb.

Raaarrgh! RAARRGH! RararARGH!

mmmm, hairspray.

not sticky

Bean can see his house from here, but he won't wave. Being a spiderman is harder than it looks, especially if you don't have any spidey skillz like sticky fingers or hot, rippling muscles that appear overnight.

work help

Bean is sittin' pretty. He's completed his assignment and ready for a new one. If you've got something you need help with, just put Bean on it. He's here to help. If not, he'll just keep sittin' and starin' at you until you do. At least give him a tabloid or a Highlights while he's waiting.

hairball

More than one kitty makes Bean apprehensive and gives him the heebie-jeebies. One wrong move can prove disastrous. You think they like you, but then you wake up with one throwing up on your pillow, 2 inches from your face.




And that's why this is the last of the cat posts.
Well, that and the fact this really is the last one. Unless I have some saved as "kitten" and not "cat"...

this one

Bean likes this kitty.

rub a dub cat

Bean likes giving kitties noogies. Maybe that's why they try to return the favor. You might want to get the neosporin out again.

reow!

"I don't think your cat likes me. Do you have any neosporin?"















*(now that we are in the "c"s alphabetically, there will be a couple cat posts- sorry dog people, the "d"s are next so you won't have to wait long)

lick

Bean was raised by domestic cats.

cannonball!

Bean is ready for a break to pull him out of the winter blues. He'll go anywhere as long as he can practice his swan dive and cannonball, even if it's the Drury Inn's indoor pool. Bean loves that he can smell the chlorine from the lobby. Ain't it the life!

freedom

How funny that this Moses Bean is next and it's Martin Luther King Jr. day. The King likened himself to Moses; both lead their people to a promised land that they knew, they would never enter themselves. Here is one of my favorite songs and it's about MLK. And of course, on youtube, you can find it set to images which, awful dissolves aside, is still a beautiful tribute.

sweet tooth

Bean does not let anyone near his candy jar. But he'll give you some if you just say the magic word, and a compliment or two about his model figure and resplendent personality.

marshee

marshmallow, marshmallow
all puffy, warm and white
you make my mouth sticky whenever i take a bite.

i like to smush you between graham crackers and chocolate
oh, no! too much fire!

darn it, i've botched it

snap

Bean owns a point and shoot. He loves taking pictures.
Here are some of his favorites...

boo boo

Bean's gots a bump on his head.

bravo

Ah, the dance of the broccoli head. Only a few are blessed with a glimpse of it's performance on the night of the first half moon in the first month of a leap year. What an honor it is to have this rare treat. Such grace, such poise, such prosaic elegance.

chill!

Bean ate his frozen yogurt too fast and you know what that means... Arnold has to punish Bean for being so greedy and gluttonous. Here's how it goes down.

monday

Bean is good at finding ways to make work fun. He has a character that he does called Mr. Boxhead. It's not this one. This one is Mr. Big Eyes.
Mr. Boxhead is waaaaaaay different.

sunday

Bean's putting on his Sunday clothes, there's lots of world out there. His Sunday shine is a certain sign that he feels as bright as he looks.

If you can't tell, the book Bean was reading inspired him to watch "Hello, Dolly!" He just loves Babs, and agrees with Linda- she is like buttah.

shush!

not much to say here- shhhh, Bean's reading!

blankey

Bean is ready for bed. "How can you tell?" you say?
Well, the snuggling with the blankey is a good indication. And his warm milk mustache. See it? You don't see it? Oh, well it's there. You can smell it. Can't you smell it?...
Fine, nevermind. And to top it off he's got Tchaikovsky's "None But The Lonely Heart" playing in the background but I guess you can't hear that either, now can you.

put it back

Bean found a new friend! He found it in a tree but he is trying to put it back. However, it seems to be content to stay in Bean's hands. Bean has that effect on people and animals; he provides comfort and joy. I think it helps that he has a lazy-boy.

heart!

It is very easy to touch Bean's heart.
When you do he will put his hands over his heart and swoon a bit and make that "awwwwwwwwww" sigh. He learned all this from his good friend, Bethany. She likes most things but NOT injustice. She will NOT sigh for injustice. So if you accidentally bring up injustice while around her, quickly show her this.

Scha-wing batta batta batta scha-wing!

Bean was unfortunately unavailable for comment but we did get this statement from Bean's attorney:
"Bean has never, no will he ever, use steroids or any type of performance-enhancing drugs. Bean has always enjoyed watching "A League of Their Own" with only buttered popcorn and on occasion, a box of Sno Caps. Thank you."

silver fox

Bean's been practicing his banjo real hard. He's not that good but he just loves doing it, it makes him happy even if he's out of tune, flat or sharp, off-key or just plain wrong. He credits the Silver Fox with instilling the love of banjo music deep within his loins. . .
Here's Bean's favorite clip of the Silver Fox in action.

yeah, that's right

Bean loves giving attitude.

Work it, Bean!

grrrrrfffff!

Sometimes Bean just gets so angry he shakes his fist in the air. Here are some things that might put Bean over the edge: when he cooks his chicken too long, when the nursing home he visits that has free ice cream is out of every flavor except neon pink and blue "Cotton Candy", when he forgets to put on deodorant in the morning, heavy doors, people who don't recycle, making tea and then forgetting about it but remembering it again after it's been sitting out and is now cold, and when people address him as or make a reference to Mr. Bean (he is like no such thing!)

fragrance

Bean is eating one of his favorite vegetables. It's not his ultimate favorite vegetable because it makes going to the bathroom an aromatic experience that is not anything like those aroma therapy candles or massages you hear about. It's all caused by genes, and that one gene that causes that... well, Bean's got it! But he doesn't have the gene that lets him curl his tongue like a hot dog (and he's tried dozens of times, sometimes with clothespins). But getting back to vegetables; if he's judging without post-eating symptoms in mind, then this one is for sure his favorite.

and we're off

And here we find Bean so excited to be returning to the blog. Why, he is just beside himself! Giddy as a baby pony on Easter morn. Peaches!

Numero Uno!

The first Bean post and what an act it is! I decided to just put Bean pictures up in alphabetical order of the file name and this was the first (beanact01). I think it's perfect. Here he's in a Greek play. He has on a mask so that's not really his mouth as you will see later. In the olden days in Greek plays the actors wore masks with huge exaggerated mouths that not only made emotion apparent to those the cheap seats but also worked as a megaphone as well. Bean is yelling about revenge or about how the mayonnaise in the fridge is old and yucky or something like that.