RTP-area local music and culture

[John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>]

ron thigpen wrote:

> Chris Calloway wrote:
>> --- mike AT mysterycircuits.com wrote:
>> 
>>> parked in the little lot at the exit ramp (temporary junkyard?) on 
>>> 15-501 and I-40?
>> 
>> [...] Is this the lot of abandoned *stolen* cars? What's the deal.
>> Somebody's got to know more about what's going on here than I do.
> 
> mind you, this is pure conjecture, but it may be that the tow truck guys 
> who clear the abandoned/disabled cars off the freeway aren't the same 
> tow truck guys who finish the job by hauling them to the local impound. 
>   in which case this could actually be a planned staging area.
> 
> full of theories,
> 
> --rt
> 

You, know.  That makes a lot of sense.  I have seen similar accumulations of 
uniformly crappy cars in areas on the Raleigh Beltline and at the 40/540 
intersection.

Speaking of crappy cars/outsider art/Chapel Hill nutcases:  Does anyone 
remember seeing an old fairlane or some such vehicle driven by an elderly man 
that always seemed to have a buch of bananas on the roof?

I used to see him around town in the early 90's and I pointed out to him that 
he had bananas on his roof.  He groused back that yes he knew it and that he 
had a perfectt right to ride around with bananas on his roof.

I did not press the issue.