“This was a world of vast parking lots connected to one another by roads that, due to congestion, often looked like vast parking lots. Every motel, restaurant, pet shop, and cinema was part of a national chain, giving the whole area a surreal atmosphere of being everywhere in general and nowhere in particular.” –Stephen McCauley, writing in his hunorous novel The Man of the House.

The cartoon gif above appears on Behind You, the facinating tumblr of illustrationist Brian Coldrick.