Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So how come geezers who live with Superboy need assault rifles? Wandering minds want to know. Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies On Feb 20, 2006, at 8:41 PM, kyle cassidy wrote: > > Last week I was staggering home from the local watering hole, > content in that I'd started a bar fight between a group of hippies > and some mennonites and gotten myself out unscathed and in > posession of a bottle of scotch that I hadn't paid for, when i > stumbled on a crack in the sidewalk and found myself up-ended on > the curb. A large, white 1972 hard top Cadillac Coupe de Ville (the > two door model) with a big silver hood scoop on the front broke > most of my fall and eased me to the Earth where I was considering > staying for a while while I regained some sense of balance. As I > lay there, a window opened on the second floor of the house in > front of me and a little old lady -- maybe 75 or 80 with a bun of > silver grey hair and a black and fuscha house coat stuck her head > out the window, brandishing a large silver handgun and shouting at > me to get off of her car before she aerated me like a lawn. Rightly > motivated I stumbled to my feet while she fired a warning shot into > the trees. I had sobered up quite a bit and took the remaining > blocks to consider that it would be a Right Neat project to do a > series of portraits of American gun owners, with their guns, in > their houses. Something that my old mentor [name redacted] might > even approve of. I dusted off the old 6x6, packed a lunch and some > bullets, and went off in search of America. My goal is to do one a > week until someone gives me a show at the Whitney. > > In any event, here's the first in a series: > > http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-4b.jpg > > http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-7.jpg > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information