Zamo's Public Art
Once upon a time, an iguana tried to improve her neighborhood, and...
...City Hall refused to approve it.
I just got my papers back and they're denying my permit application to erect a 99-foot bronze statue of myself on the front lawn. Something about obstructing views and not being within the current zoning. But there's a 120-foot condo tower just down the street and that was OK.
Oh yeah, and they were saying that the tail section impinges on some neighbors' lands. (Well, duh - I had to do it to keep the proportions nice and lifelike.)
I say I'd be enriching the neighborhood - think of the tourists who will flock to see it! think of how we can fleece them! - and that this rejection is really about the fact that I'm a lizard. The speciesist bastards - if I was a human developer they'd be all for it. Human developers get anything they want and then some.
Phooey on the neighbors anyway - don't they realize they must suffer for great art?
Anyway, here's what it would have looked like:
