DURHAM RISING: NOT ENOUGH YEAST IN THE EAST

I had a good time Saturday night at Durham Rising - it was great to see so many people out in downtown Durham - particularly (boogity boogity) after darkness fell.

Couldn't help but notice that the Derm Dough rose unevenly - rather poofy west of Mangum St., east, not so much. Which leads me to today's feature: Dumb-Infrastructure Day!



This is the view from in front of the Eligibility Building on East Main last week, looking straight west along the center of the sidewalk corridor. The big pole in the middle of the sidewalk is a new traffic light support pole. (The old one is visible behind the mailbox.) Behind the pole is a woman and her kids crossing the crazy 5-lanes, dual-light intersection.


Here she is, with her kids, circumnavigating the pole and the sand pit.

So, I thought about going ahead with my usual east vs. west divide diatribe, but in honor of our dearly departed BullSh@t, I thought I would do a tribute full-on graphical snark.



We'll miss you, BM.

Comments

Submitted by Joe (not verified) on Sun, 6/24/2007 - 10:46pm

"Here there be monsters!" Oh god that's funny. Thanks. :)

Submitted by peetoteeto (not verified) on Mon, 6/25/2007 - 3:20am

omg, that's good. before I read the tribute I looked at the image and thought "how very manpursy!" little did I know.

nicely done! I loled.

(it's good to have a laugh after the Frank Lloyd GoneWrong nightmare you subjected to us yesterday.)

Submitted by Michael (not verified) on Mon, 6/25/2007 - 4:51pm

Why do I get the impression that as a resident of Schelpville, I'm supposed to have furry feet and live in a burrow?

Submitted by A. Librarian (not verified) on Mon, 6/25/2007 - 5:10pm

Should I be worried that the Library is in the "Here there be monsters" area? I know we have a bad reputation, but monsters?!? I'll have to use my super-librarian powers to keep everyone safe!
;-)

Submitted by Phil (not verified) on Mon, 6/25/2007 - 5:39pm

Hee! Good job, Sven.

Michael -- you don't?! :-)

a. librarian -- we have faith in you. Librarians rock.

Submitted by Burncho (not verified) on Mon, 6/25/2007 - 8:44pm

I've only seen monster droppings in my neighborhood. Five years here and I only see their leavings, these ominous white signs staked into the ground with lots of words signed by 'NIS'.

Submitted by Binge Cafe (not verified) on Thu, 6/28/2007 - 1:00am

I can only say, after laughing, that it must be too hot here in the East for the yeast...or maybe there is no bread at the end of the world. I'm going to request that the chariot procession ride down my street for our own special unleavened East event.

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