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Subject: [Leica] French Caf é Women
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:43:53 +0800
References: <C648E22B.4F4CD%mark@rabinergroup.com>

What amazes me here is that despite Starbucks charging international  
prices - RM10 for a coffee - they're doing extremely well despite the  
average daily wage before tax being only about RM 100. The mind boggles.

On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I have a shot of Leica in Wetzlar shot through the golden yellow  
> arches next
> door. I almost even didn't do it on purpose..
> The first set of golden arches I used  to go to as  a kid after  
> playing
> touch football. I grew up in Northfield it was 20 minutes SW from  
> us in Des
> Plaines, Illinois, USA.
> We never got the burgers just the fries.
> My fries and I all took fries very seriously.
>
> I also was a patron of the very first Starbucks.
> And Walgreen's. (the oldest one maybe not the first)
>
> All of which I'm sure will be at the top of the Eiffel tower by the  
> time I
> get there.
> I'll get the fries with a latte. Maybe a green river from Walgreen's.
> Capitalism I'm mainly for it. But it gets ugly.
> But wish all my childhood hangouts on the North Shore of Chicago  
> had not all
> been turned into Starbucks. As well as anything anywhere else.
>
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 01:10:40 +0100
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] French Caf? Women
>>
>> "Kevin Argue" <kargue at sympatico.ca>
>>>>>>>>>
>> Just got caught up on looking at photos. Nice photo
>> with the Rolleilex except
>> for one thing, McDonald's in the background. What a way to ruin a
>> french slice of daily
>> knife.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/ 
>> cafewomen_bord06.jpg.html
>> <<<<<<<
>>
>> Thanks Kevin, I'd like to say that was an ironic comment on the
>> pervasiveness of US cultural imperialism in the form of the  
>> McDonalds arches
>> undermining European architecture - and in particular the dix  
>> huitieme
>> siecle architecture of Bordeaux, while, at the same time, sabotaging
>> European culinary identities and subsuming them under a monolith  
>> of burger
>> blandness, but that would be wrong. I happened to have the camera  
>> on the
>> table, saw the elegant women, and took the moment of discussion in  
>> the
>> moment!
>
>
>
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THEIN Onn Ming
*photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com
www.flickr.com/mingthein







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