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Subject: [Leica] leni riefenstahl, jill greenberg, sally mann and kyle cassidy walk into a bar ....
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed Jan 24 15:33:51 2007
References: <20070124232232.51529.qmail@web25512.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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
>
>
>
>
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