Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/20

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Subject: [Leica] new series: americans and their firearms
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon Feb 20 18:11:11 2006
References: <007c01c63687$efe365a0$6401a8c0@milla>

So how come geezers who live with Superboy need assault rifles?

Wandering minds want to know.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies

On Feb 20, 2006, at 8:41 PM, kyle cassidy wrote:

>
> Last week I was staggering home from the local watering hole,  
> content in that I'd started a bar fight between a group of hippies  
> and some mennonites and gotten myself out unscathed and in  
> posession of a bottle of scotch that I hadn't paid for, when i  
> stumbled on a crack in the sidewalk and found myself up-ended on  
> the curb. A large, white 1972 hard top Cadillac Coupe de Ville (the  
> two door model) with a big silver hood scoop on the front broke  
> most of my fall and eased me to the Earth where I was considering  
> staying for a while while I regained some sense of balance. As I  
> lay there, a window opened on the second floor of the house in  
> front of me and a little old lady -- maybe 75 or 80 with a bun of  
> silver grey hair and a black and fuscha house coat stuck her head  
> out the window, brandishing a large silver handgun and shouting at  
> me to get off of her car before she aerated me like a lawn. Rightly  
> motivated I stumbled to my feet while she fired a warning shot into  
> the trees. I had sobered up quite a bit and took the remaining  
> blocks to consider that it would be a Right Neat project to do a  
> series of portraits of American gun owners, with their guns, in  
> their houses. Something that my old mentor [name redacted] might  
> even approve of. I dusted off the old 6x6, packed a lunch and some  
> bullets, and went off in search of America. My goal is to do one a  
> week until someone gives me a show at the Whitney.
>
> In any event, here's the first in a series:
>
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-4b.jpg
>
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-7.jpg
>
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Replies: Reply from clzeni at mindspring.com (Craig Zeni) ([Leica] new series: americans and their firearms)
Reply from rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com (Rob McClure) ([Leica] new series: americans and their firearms)
In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (kyle cassidy) ([Leica] new series: americans and their firearms)