Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 07:45 PM, Photo Phreak wrote: > I could be wrong, but I think his stuff disappeared from > most US bookstores after Reagan/Meese and the other anal > retentives came to power. i've seen hamilton and sturges in bookstores very recently, though not here in bamalama. a few years ago, our politically-ambitious fundamentalist attorney general charged barnes & noble with distribution of child pornography for carrying hamilton, sturges, and, get this, sally mann. they ultimately reached some sort of settlement whereby b&n could still sell the books but would agree to keep them behind the counter, a la playboy/penthouse/etc. one of my former professors makes a point of asking to see them each and every time he goes into b&n. our idiot AG, of course, knew his case wouldn't stand a chance under constitutional scrutiny--hell, i bet even thomas and scalia would side with the 1st amendment on that one if the supremes had even agreed to hear such an obviously agregious case--but he wanted to garner support from my good and intelligent fellow bamians. i just tonight looked through a copy of sally mann's 'at twelve' at a chain bookstore. i guess she's been liberated. speaking of anal retentives--or, probably more accurately--anuses, howbout that john ashcroft? i feel so safe knowing he's looking over my shoulder. from roger ebert: "Note: The restored Director's Cut of "Amadeus" opens Friday at the Landmark Century, and is in revival around the country. The one brief scene of Constanze's breasts, in medium-long shot, has inspired the flywheels at the MPAA to re-rate the movie R from its original PG. Thus high school students are discouraged from seeing this movie. Our rating system is held hostage by sick crypto-moralists. Surely PG-13 would have been adequate to advise parents of this scene, while acknowledging that anyone over 13 in America who is alarmed by the simple sight of a woman's breasts is in need of counseling (I include our attorney general)." - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "America sells everything with sex and then recoils when presented with the realities of natural process." --Jock Sturges "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg All my family problems disappeared overnight. We're all takin' Zoloft, and everything is fine. My sister's teen angst just flew out the window. Momma's so happy, she laughs all the time. --Patterson Hood - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html