Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 05, 2021

Are you saying that I have to wait 17 years for another beer?

Gotta drink fast to get your buzz on.

Definitely a case of having to pack a lot of living into a very short time.

Sorry I’m late, had to take the red eye.

Time to buzz off….

Ours don’t come again for another few years.

I mean, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.

Cue: Leonard Cohen

The only thing sadder than an empty bottle of beer is a full one that isn’t opened.

Cicada 3301

That’s it. I’m calling in the swat team.

You got your buzz on, so bug off.

There are about 25 different broods of cicadas that come out in different years in different parts of the Eastern United States. Some every 17 years, some every 13 years.

It is amazing that an insect that is the size of your thumb can make a noise as loud as a leaf blower and there are millions of them.

Drink your beer and buzz off. [Like the name of the place]

For a cicada he´s not very chirpy!

I suppose everything is pretty much a new experience when you only live a few days. Looks like all the ’cada ladies paired off already. Better luck next …oh yeah

Experienced the emergence of Brood X four times now, not counting 1953 when I was young and lived in the city. May never see another.

And I swear it happened just like this:

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss

The Gates of Love they budged an inch

I can’t say much has happened since

But closing time, closing time, closing time

LOL!

“Hey barkeep, put that on my tab from last time, yes? …What do you mean: interest?”

“Yes, but the mediocre scotch that you were drinking this time will be seventeen years older the next time.”

Ha ha! He didn’t get to have séx and now he will die. Wait, that’s not funny.

T9ll th9 cicadas to Shuttup!

♪ open all the doors, and let you out into the world ♪

Notice the bartender is green… Now it is time for the annual cicadas, which are the boring green ones. Unfortunately, here in southeastern VA, that’s all we get! None of the colorful scarlet ones.

Where I live the 17 year cicadas will be visiting in 2024. What’s interesting that year, there will also 13 year cicadas downstate.

https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/docs/CicadaBroodStaticMap.pdf

Brood X is actually Brood 10.

Looks like he put away a few boilermakers there.

I’m so cica-dees insects!

Poor guy. Spent so long at the Bar, he didn’t get in on the frenzied Mating ritual.

This is the first cicada year in my lifetime (longer than I’d like to admit) that I haven’t seen a single cicada.