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Subject: Re: [Leica] FW: congress to stamp out goth culture -- thank god
From: "Barney Quinn" <Barney.Quinn@noaa.gov>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:31:42 -0400
References: <ECC6F7B330A26C40B652962C47DEA258183CEA@ASC02.asc.upenn.edu>

Kyle,

$273 big ones? I'm surprised this hasn't made the 6 PM news. Pork
perhaps?

Barney

Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> 
> well leicaserfs, this is it. my ship has come in. finally, my chance to
> become fameous. i'm not sure that i will be able to remember all you little
> people in the days to come as i am rocketed to the circle of the greats,
> ansel adams, minor white, hcb, et. al, so if you want to get my autograph,
> you probably only have a matter of hours to get your request in.
> 
> my impending mega-stardom will come thanks to Congressman Sam Graves, a
> Missouri Republican who has earmarked $273,000 to stamp out "goth culture"
> in his home district of Blue Springs. In a press release Graves said: "It is
> my hope that this funding will give the officers in the Youth Outreach Unit
> the tools they need to identify Goth culture leaders that are preying on our
> kids,"
> 
> as goths around the world are ground under the thumb of the federal
> government and turn in their black lipstick and bauhaus t-shirts in exchange
> for polo and dockers my goth photo project will become as valuable as
> doccumenting the last days of the Shakers or any of margaret bourke white's
> paltry dustbowl photography.
> 
> for your last look at this embattled and dying culture, i give you some
> leicashotz:
> 
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/goth/
> 
> yours with infinite hubris,
> 
> k "soon to be so fameous i will dispose of each leica after i have run a
> single roll through it to be replaced by a brand new one" c
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