[Durham INC] chicken/digital billboard correlation

[Kelly Jarrett]

At the risk of being hoisted on my own petard, could we stop using these 
listservs for long-winded, defensive postings and try to stay on-topic?

Kelly

RW Pickle wrote:
> The purpose of this list is to stimulate conversation, not judge a
> conversation as being ridiculous or insinuate that there is a lot of junk
> in my front yard. Neither of which statements are true. If it were the
> case, it's pretty easy to get junk out of a yard. It's much harder to get
> anything intelligent out of some people...
>
> Maybe Ken can't appreciate the award winning art of Andrew Priess
> (www.arpdesignstudio.com) and Mike Roig (www.mikeroig.com) which he
> probably is referring to as junk (because they are mostly twisted metal).
> Trust me, they are not junk; they're sculptures. We have a lot of art in
> the hood over here that might appear to be junk to the clueless. I guess
> one has to appreciate art before one can understand it. Two sculptures, in
> a neighbor's back yard, remind me of a plane crash every time I see them.
> I helped him haul them there in my big truck. The statuary in the Park; I
> put it there. We like art over here!
>
> Sure, Planning and Zoning came out to investigate a report I was running a
> junk yard (maybe you called them). I had 9 cars here at one time. When I
> pulled the car covers off three of the Porsche's and ask the two
> investigators which one they wanted to drive in the parade, suddenly they
> didn't have an issue with me and apologized for the inconvenience.
>
> Want to see my junk? You can go to google and to their street views to see
> for yourself (save some gas and time as well). You won't see any junk in
> the street views; there isn't any. Besides, my neighbors wouldn't put up
> with "junk" if it was even here. Be sure to look across the street into
> the Park and see the once-thought-to-be-extinct giant sequoias that line
> Beverly Drive. They were started from seed back in the 40's. A botanist
> from Duke discovered the trees in a valley in China and brought the seeds
> back to Durham. We're lucky to have them lining our street.
>
> I did ask my neighbor if he would mind if I had some chickens since his
> swimming pool would be on the same side of the house as my chickens. But
> we both thought that the two wouldn't go together very well during the hot
> summer months. So I guess I'll just leave the chickens out at farm. Time
> will show (as it did in  Chicago; they allowed them for a while until the
> complaints became to be too many) that chickens just aren't meant to be
> part of a modern city landscape.
>
> It's not so ridiculous that if the cities, held up as examples for the
> chickens to be allowed in Durham, have these digital billboards, then they
> must be easy to live with. And if these other progressive cities have them
> (as they do chickens), then why wouldn't Durham want them? Apparently we
> want to be like everyone else. And if it's good for them, it should be
> good for us. Right? Otherwise why would we use them as examples for one,
> but not the other. Or is it that we use only the examples that are
> convenient for whatever cause is being put forward?
>
> Tell us how these two facts do not correlate with each other, that's
> conversation...
>
> RWP
> 27 Beverly
>
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