I was all set to write about the plans for a transit-tax referendum in the Triangle (stay tuned, I'll get to that later today) when, upon researching the News & Observer's stories on transit I found, instead, the story about Raleigh's Kudzu Jesus.
What can I say? It's August. We live in Kudzu Country, the South. Here's a link to the article, and you can check out the photo, by reporter Josh Shaffer, above.
It's a spot where the kudzu has climbed across a wire. Says reporter Shaffer, "From the rear, he looks like Christ the Redeemer, the 100-foot statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro from a pointed mountaintop." It's just off Raleigh's Boylan Avenue bridge.
Random act of nature? A message from on high? Your call.
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Too bad the people who work tirelessly to find legitmate uses for hemp haven't devoted the same amount of energy to finding a use for kudzu.
I like the illegitimate uses of hemp myself.
Kudzu Jesus........please.
Sounds like the people in Raleigh are smokin' too much kudzu.
Wow, breaking news of the day.
Mary, you may want to pray to it for job security if this is all you can find to write about.
It looks more like the grim reaper to me...
Where have you been? People have known of legitimate uses for Kudzu for years...
http://books.google.com/books?id=KMSpPFcli08C&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=kudzu+as+delicacy&source=bl&ots=RgoQZb-M5W&sig=8qmkWliVPTC1fQdNEqnzkt9mhpo&hl=en&ei=hkyMStyEId-ptgeJ-IDlBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false
I can't comment on Mary's job security, but the description for her blog says she covers "growth, neighborhoods, urban design and related topics". Since this is a "urban growth", I'd say it seems to fall in her territory.
Isn't this sort of like seeing the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich?
Would trimming "Fat Jesus" to make it look more like "Thin Jesus" be called De-Vine Intervention?
It looks like a creepy flasher, fixing to scare folks on the next train to come through.
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