Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]E) would be really clever , Kyle. Leni ist dett und schootink her Nazi greats und frendz vit Schmeissers und Lugers in Valhalla fur jahre already. :-) Douglas Nick Roberts wrote: > Where's Susan Sontag when you need her? > > Nick > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> > To: lug@leica-users.org > Sent: Wednesday, 24 January, 2007 11:19:05 PM > Subject: [Leica] leni riefenstahl, jill greenberg, sally mann and kyle > cassidy walk into a bar .... > > > Leni wants something, but she'll only speak german, so the bartender keeps > ignoring her, but she's getting beligerant. > > "A round of Loud Mouth Soup!" I bellow over the excessive music, which I > suddenly notice is "ABBA", at volumes not recommended by the makers of the > sound system, I'm sure. On top of the disco syncopations is a rythmic > flatulance of an over driven speaker, possibly with a hole in it. > > "Do something about this goddamn music!" I shout to Sally, she starts > fishing around in her gigantic purse and heads over to the jukebox. > Meanwhile, the bartender produces four frosted glasses and pours gin in > them indescrimantly from a bucket. A lot of it splashes on the bar. > > "I'm all out of olives," he yells, throwing a shiny penny in each of the > drinks before pushing them towards us, "and vermouth. That'll be --" he > thinks a minute, his eyes rolling back in his head before popping back > like cherrys on a slot machine, "eighty dollars." > > "Eighty what?!" I exclaim, "that better be Canadian." > > "You want to hang with the poneys, you gotta live with the horses," he > says, staring into my eyes. > > The music suddenly stops and the bar is dead silent in the split second > that I yell > > "What the hell does that mean?" at the top of my voice. All heads turn > towards me. I look around embarrassed. The other patrons eye me like I've > shown up at a funeral in a clown suit. Sally looks over from the juke box > and presses a button. Some hideous country and western song begins yodling > through the sound system and everybody turns back to their drinks. > > "Eighty dollars," says the bartender again. > > Suddenly, completely without warning Jill reaches across the bar and slaps > him hard in the side of the head, the bartender reels back with a look of > complete astonishment on his face as Jill snaps his photo with an old > Crown Graphic she was hiding behind her back. The bulb makes a POP! noise > audible over the music and we're all momentarily blinded. The bartender > shakes his head and Jill ejects the bulb onto the floor and loads another > one. > > "Thanks gramps," she says. > > "To hell with this dump," Leni says, twirling around on the bar stool and > tossing an empty martini glass over her shoulder, "Let's go to Courtney > Love's party, there's bound to be more action there." > > > > How should I react? > > a) Say, "No, let's sit around here and photograph one another, I have a > noctilux!" > b) Say, "Yeah, that sounds good. I already blew all my cash on four > drinks." > c) Slap Jill Greenberg > d) Ask Sally what she wants to do > e) Answer in fake German, to see if I can make Leni go mad thinking she's > forgotten how to speak her native language > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out > more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. > http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >