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Subject: [Leica] review of kyle's show from local philadelphia temperence group
From: h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)
Date: Sat Feb 17 15:48:29 2007

OK, I bit on the ross bender website. Somebody has way
too much time on their hands, but I really liked the
goddess's asterisks.

--- Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:

> This review of my show was posted late last night to
> a Philadelphia Listserv regarding my show (thanks to
> the luggers who showed up):
> 
> 
> 
> Subject: Forces of Temperence Face Mild Set Back at
> Cassidy Art Opening
> From: Ross Bender
> 
> Anti-booze forces lost ground tonight when the Kyle
> Cassidy "art gallery opening" turned into the
> expected drunken brawl, as supposedly staid citizens
> lowered themselves to the level of the beasts of the
> field in an orgy of inebriation, leaving dozens
> stupefied under the tables in the grip of Demon Rum.
> Grown men and women got themselves plotzed,
> hammered, fuddled and tanked, and by the end of the
> evening specimens of both sexes were dancing lewd
> and topless on the bar, making Sodom and Gomorrah
> look positively civilized by comparison. A new low
> in unseemliness was reached as loose women cupped
> their naked breasts in unison around hapless mens
> ears, in a kinky sexual maneuver known as "The
> Earmuff", an abomination beyond even the imaginings
> of the compilers of the notorious Kama Sutra. 
> 
> Temperance Union leaders stated that while they had
> perhaps lost a skirmish, the battle continues, and
> warned that the forces of sobriety would be out in
> force on Wednesday night Feb. 28th when the new Dock
> Street "Brew-Pub" opens its doors to an early influx
> of degenerates. Ross "Der Hammer" Bender, who
> suffered a broken nose at the hands of
> anti-anti-booze militants outside the Abbraccio
> tonight, said from his hospital bed that he
> considered himself a martyr in the cause. 
> 
> "Ich bin ein Mennonite," he said, lapsing
> momentarily into the quaint Pennsylvania Dutch
> dialect of his ancestors, "und ve gentle Mennonites
> dont like to use der Roughshtuff unless there is
> chust a mighty good reason, but chust remember that
> ve are trained from childhood in the use of  farm
> implements, such as plowshares and pruning hooks.
> Und a plowshare might do some awful serious damage
> to vun of dese broohaha-pubs dat I haff heard about.
> Dis iss not a threat. Chust sayin. Remember Carrie
> Nation!" 
> 
> -- 
> Ross Bender
> http://rossbender.org
> 
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