Kliban by B. Kliban for November 27, 2023

A scene from ‘The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag’.

Now entering the middle of Nowhere.

Twilight Zone.

It’s not what Griswold expected when he got to go on a company junket.

Is that Oakland?

Move along, nothing to see here…

Been there, got the postcard.

Thanks for that. The nothing I mean.

Your Zen training is at an end. Your Zen practice will now begin.

A salvage yard owner has to live somewhere. The late owner of the trash collection company and landfill had the biggest mansion in the state.

Not quite the end of the journey, but you can see it from where you are.

“We’re on the road to Nowhere.

Come on inside…"

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA

Best science fiction prison I ever saw was in THX 1138. It was just white emptiness. No doors, no walls, no guards. Just emptiness.