Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Oct 19 14:35:09 2006
References: <85E82150C9268149B89695D00778A6CA1C83F6@EXCHANGE.asc.local>

Send me a copy and I'll promote it in Europe. Vast market for this  
subject: we hardly can imagine having the need for a gun imbedded in  
one's culture. So for us, this is pretty exotic.



Op 19-okt-06, om 23:18 heeft Kyle Cassidy het volgende geschreven:

> [snip]
> Steve Sed:
>
>> that Kyle, is a wonderful response... cogent, compelling, and
> controlled...as well as being... I believe, truly honest.
>> I respect you for this...as well as for keeping on with your project,
> even though I have strong reservations about its meaning,
>> significance, and the motives of the people (especially those of the
> subjects) involved...
>>
>> I ask only for a free and autographed copy of the book... to thank me
> for my help in promoting and selling it....
>
> Now, the easiest way to have scored a free autographed copy would have
> been to let me crash on your sofa on my way through phoenix :-) but as
> it is, you can redeem one by picketing the local Barns 'n Noble  
> when it
> comes out and stirring up some controversy. Maybe a sign like "Kyle
> Cassidy, rabble! Talentless Hack!" or "Down with Kyle Cassidy!" or
> "Borders Books + Kyle Cassidy = EVIL!" -- something damning but
> unspecific to get everybody talking. if I can get some nationwide
> picketing going on, I just might be able to turn this into a best
> seller. I want Terry Gross to ask me: "You're being picketed across  
> the
> country, but nobody can tell if it's by pro gun people or anti gun
> people -- but usually by people with poor grammer. It seems that this
> book is so controversial that everybody wants it banned. How do you  
> feel
> about that?"
>
> It was pretty honest, except for the part about Parker Posey, I  
> fibbed a
> little there -- she actually dumped me.
>
> Kc
>
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis)
In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis)