All Things Exploring: 2019.09.26

Published on: September 26th, 2019 | Written by: Bad Guy Joe

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Scuba IS LIFE
If you’ve got a spare $12 million, this huge house in Kansas, complete with SCUBA TUNNELS can be all yours. Must be nice to have money eh?

If that’s too fancy for you, there’s a townhouse in NYC going for $8M, apparently it has a ‘tunnel’ between the main house and a converted carriage house out back.

Coming soon! Radioactive Exploration in PA!
Three Mile Island, the infamous site of one of the United States worst nuclear accidents, is shutting down. Over time, staffing will be reduced to just security. Ya’all know what to do.

File Under UGH?
The terminal warehouse building on Manhattan’s far west side (just south of Hudson Yards) will be seeing a big renovation that will convert more of the space to offices. The renderings show a few new floors plopped on top of the existing historic brick structure. Maybe they’ll feel inspired and install a rail car inside the existing ‘tunnel’ space? I’d be kinda OK with that. For more about this building, check out my write up from a few years back.

Battle of the Graffiti Bastards
Vandals in Louisville are slugging it out with graffiti messages for and against the republican nazi status quo. The latest incident involves an anti-capitalist, anti-cop roller tag over interstate 64. The ‘blue lives matter’ crowd immediately lost their minds at the mere thought of resistance in the heart of Kentucky.

Newsletter Launch
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Bando Babble
Oh sorry my bad. I thought that place was the home for wayward bombs.

Brexit your way over to this Camelot theme park. It’s such a metaphor the entire country right now.

If you’re looking for a WW2 bunker to escape the brexit zombie economy apocalypse. Scotland has a place for you. You can even develop your own film down there, assuming the scots don’t leave the union before then. Maybe you should head to the Wrexham drains instead. Or maybe stumble across your local weed dealers ‘bando grow house?

Government Looting
Seattle is trying to take over a long disused Cannery building, in an effort to force the owners to either reuse the building or take it down. God dang gubbermint!

One Less Bando!
It’s a Gobshite Goodbye for the Guano Hotel. This long abandoned hotel in the UK has finally bit the dust, but not before a colony of BATS was relocated. BATS!!!! They should have just left the huge building alone and let alllll the wildlife take over.

A three building office park that has sat derelict for a few years out in Utah is also about to meet its maker. This beehive of exploration, drug use and vagrant action has long disturbed NIMBYs, whose out of control kids were probably the ones who set it on fire.

Fire took down two Nevada spots in one night: what looks like a meth lab bando in Reno, and the “Do Art” homeless squat in Las Vegas. Sounds like a squatter set that one on fire, a common theme in such fires.

A building in Fresno met the same fate just a few days later, and just the other day, two apartment buildings in Vicksburg lit up.

While we’re burning it all…
An old seminary in Dayton, Ohio also ‘mysteriously’ caught fire. It wasn’t damaged too hard, though it is slated for demolition regardless.

Meanwhile, Cleveland residents are clamoring for the demolition of more abandoned homes after the badly decomposed bodies of four people were found inside one such vacant structure.

We could create a program for able bodied homeless to take those houses, fix them up and live there, creating an awesome community in the process, but hey, capitalism.

Thank You Next
Next week I’ll be back on my bullshit, writing up some history posts for this here very website. There’s a lot cooking finally.

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