Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 01, 2022

He made an ape out of himself.

I’ve heard that it’s dam‍n near impossible to find a place to buy OR rent (that you can afford) in many cities.

She needs to tell him that you’re not supposed to bath in the public fountain.

But they paid you a bunch of bananas for all those acres of land.

“Huh? Number #21 Crosstown Vine is missing! Tarzan commute ruined.”

They’ve been Cheetah’d

Going to have to go outside the city to find a bungalow in the Edgar Rice Boroughs

The Wiley bears live on the next block, similar house design.

That looks like the Chinese development model

What’s the vine attached to?

Wait til they hear from the HOA.

@Asharah

Indeed! According to Prof. Friederic Heidensieker at Watsamatta U: “That’s a very deep Aristotelian philosophical question, that teeters on the modern existential cliff, ready nearly to blunder into oblivion.”

From Wikipedia: “Suspension of disbelief, sometimes called willing suspension of disbelief, is the intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining something unreal or impossible in reality, such as a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoyment. Aristotle first explored the idea of the concept in its relation to the principles of theater; the audience ignores the unreality of fiction in order to experience catharsis.”

The prospectus wasn’t entirely honest?? IT NEVER IS!!

I’ve been there, done that. The developer that built my house, whose name starts with the letter “P” and contains other letters such as “u”, “l”, “t” and “e”, said that the drywall would be fastened to the wall using nails and that the drywall would be fastened to the ceiling using screws. The only thing that got “screwed” was the buyer of the house because not a single drywall screw was used in the house. The garage ceiling nearly fell because all of the nails became loose due to the temperature changes in the unheated area. The builder’s “prospectus didn’t seem to be entirely honest” and it cost me $1,800.

A downtown tree house? What a deal. Imagine what you’d have to pay for a studio apartment with views on all four sides?

I’ve seen a couple like this. Could it be the next set up like the desert island bit?

Johnny Weissmueller movies notwithstanding…

Jane Porter Greystoke was a blonde. Read the flaming books!

fusilier, waxing pedantic

James 2:24

It’s like urban development. Put in a 10,000 unit apartment complex on a farm that used to have two people and two dozen cows and then complain when there is a traffic jam.

House for sale. Close to highways, treed lot, good view

In central VA builders are taking up even single acre lots with condos that have all the appearance of a medieval prison. They are allowing 1 parking space to every unit. Their rationale is that 2 bedroom units won’t need a second vehicle. They also opine that, as there mostly will be singles and a few couples, it is unlikely there will be children, thus no need for open spaces or play areas. Guess the interiors are so drab, this has become their version of birth control.

What. “Great views. Finish to taste. Plenty of nearby parking. Eco friendly. Open floor plan.” They might have mentioned the walk-up (shinny-up) part.

Go ahead Tarzan. Yodel for elephants. Let the rampage begin. No gentrification allowed. …snort

Love the litter all around the trash can.

They paved Paradise and put up a coffee shop….and boutiques.

The worst part of it is that they have to keep feeding those parking meters

Baseball prospectus.

TARZAN’S NEW Y ORK ADVENTURE—-1942

Tarzan turns on radio.hears female opera singer shrieking away.

Snaps off radio. “Woman sick.Need witch doctor”

I don’t know. It could be alright. Just swoop down and snatch their Starbucks and In-n-Out.

Time for Lord Greystoke to take over.

I thought cheet’em was the monkey.

Tarzan is also Lord Greystoke a modern man.

Then they changed the route of the crosstown vine.

Isn’t a certain orange politician claim to be a real estate developer?

Sadly, all too much like true life. The Supreme Court even abrogated the Constitution for the sake of “community interest” that was really just a boon to commercial development enterprises.

Ever since I moved to my current house, I’ve been walking in the morning though an adjourning neighborhood.

Up until a couple of years ago, it was separated from another development by a forest and a stream. Now that area is an interstate highway. One house has a light for the highway outside the back window.

There are about a dozen houses with the interstate highway in their backyard. The rest are close enough to hear the traffic 24/7.

At its closest, the highway is a mile from my house and at that point is in a depression. During quiet times even we can hear the traffic. On a really quiet night I can also hear the rumbling of the train and that’s 5 miles away.

I don’t know what the highway engineers were thinking but the highway goes OVER the streets where the intersections are. This not only makes the the noise travel further, but it means you have to accelerate uphill and decelerate downhill. Also I think it is more expensive to elevate the big highway rather than elevate the intersecting road.