[Leica] review of kyle's show from local philadelphia temperence group

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

ATTA BOY!

Just the result we wished for ya!

Ric


On Feb 17, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> This review of my show was posted late last night to a Philadelphia  
> Listserv regarding my show (thanks to the luggers who showed up):
>
>
>
> Subject: Forces of Temperence Face Mild Set Back at Cassidy Art  
> Opening
> From: Ross Bender
>
> Anti-booze forces lost ground tonight when the Kyle Cassidy "art  
> gallery opening" turned into the expected drunken brawl, as  
> supposedly staid citizens lowered themselves to the level of the  
> beasts of the field in an orgy of inebriation, leaving dozens  
> stupefied under the tables in the grip of Demon Rum. Grown men and  
> women got themselves plotzed, hammered, fuddled and tanked, and by  
> the end of the evening specimens of both sexes were dancing lewd  
> and topless on the bar, making Sodom and Gomorrah look positively  
> civilized by comparison. A new low in unseemliness was reached as  
> loose women cupped their naked breasts in unison around hapless  
> mens ears, in a kinky sexual maneuver known as "The Earmuff", an  
> abomination beyond even the imaginings of the compilers of the  
> notorious Kama Sutra.
>
> Temperance Union leaders stated that while they had perhaps lost a  
> skirmish, the battle continues, and warned that the forces of  
> sobriety would be out in force on Wednesday night Feb. 28th when  
> the new Dock Street "Brew-Pub" opens its doors to an early influx  
> of degenerates. Ross "Der Hammer" Bender, who suffered a broken  
> nose at the hands of anti-anti-booze militants outside the  
> Abbraccio tonight, said from his hospital bed that he considered  
> himself a martyr in the cause.
>
> "Ich bin ein Mennonite," he said, lapsing momentarily into the  
> quaint Pennsylvania Dutch dialect of his ancestors, "und ve gentle  
> Mennonites dont like to use der Roughshtuff unless there is chust a  
> mighty good reason, but chust remember that ve are trained from  
> childhood in the use of  farm implements, such as plowshares and  
> pruning hooks. Und a plowshare might do some awful serious damage  
> to vun of dese broohaha-pubs dat I haff heard about. Dis iss not a  
> threat. Chust sayin. Remember Carrie Nation!"
>
> -- 
> Ross Bender
> http://rossbender.org
>
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