Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cross-dressing is okay down here, but I don't want other people to take pictures of me. I do have a beard and a shaved head. Regards, Jeffery _________________ Jeffery Smith Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA www.400tx.com On Jun 29, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > It helps considerably to be a female ;-) > > Tina > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Metairie has been on a "family friendly" crusade for the past few years. >> That's fine if that's what they want to be, the anti-New Orleans (they >> earned that reputation when their levees DIDN'T fail, but their parish >> president decided to flood his cities during Katrina by turning off all of >> the pumping stations). >> >> Photograph a building, and you're a terrorist. Photograph a female walking >> in a mall, and you're a video voyeur. I got stopped by the police in >> Plaquemines Parish in 2002 while trying to photograph a great blue heron. >> Got accosted again in Hahnville while trying to photograph an old >> cemetery. >> >> Is their a "best disguise" that one can wear to be allowed to photograph >> something in public? For me, a Hawaiian shirt, Bermuda shorts, and black >> wingtips with white socks seems like the winning combination. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jeffery >> _________________ >> Jeffery Smith >> Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA >> www.400tx.com >> >> >> >> On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Phil Swango wrote: >> >>> Lew Schwartz wrote: >>> This is just NOLA sexual paranoia/hypocrisy stuff, taking advantage of >>> some poor schmuck who has other problems to score points with their >>> bigoted constituency. The problem is that, if they get away with it, >>> they will start chipping away at everyone else's freedom. They need to >>> outlaw eyes, memory and Mardi Gras to be consistent. >>> ================================================== >>> >>> It is pretty ironic, given the city's well-deserved reputation for open >>> debauchery and its penchant for exploiting it to promote tourism. I >> happen >>> to love the place and was just there a year or so ago on family business, >>> partaking in the merrymaking myself. I didn't visit any Metairie malls >>> though -- that's where the *real* hardcore stuff goes down. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Phil Swango >>> 307 Aliso Dr SE >>> Albuquerque, NM 87108 >>> 505-262-4085 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information