Kliban by B. Kliban for February 25, 2022

“…and back again.”

I was in a bathroom stall at a tavern. Left side had graffiti. “Stall ping-pong. See other side.”

I turned to the other side. Graffiti read. “Stall ping-pong. See other side.”

Here, There and Everywhere – The Beatles. GREAT SONG!!!

“So, where you been, Stan?”

“Oh, y’know, here and there. Same old.”

This could take a while.

You can’t get there from here.

Looks like cricket, but you’d need another runner.

How can you be in two places at once, when you’re not anywhere at all?

Been there…done that!

Oy

Synch with Cul de Sac today. [Dill asks Alice why she is standing “here”-she replies that neither way looks like the future]

The signs all point to the path of his peregrination being a cyclic one.

“They seek him here, they seek him there;

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!

Is he in heaven or is he in hell?

That damned elusive Pimpernel!”

There’s a mock signpost in London that says “Here 40,070 km >”

Eyewitness to history.

Are we “there” yet?

Rut-Roh!

That’s neither here nor there.

This is so relevant to our little town of Mosier. A sidewalk was put in that is about the relative length of Kliban’s, and at one end a sign reading “Sidewalk Closed” I think the town had a budget they had to spend.

…and thus was the beginning of the game cricket.