Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, gluttony is "family friendly". By the way, the spiritual leader of that group is the same guy caught choking his chicken next to a playground filled with young children. He's is not allowed to enter the French Quarter (now THAT is irony). When Chris Williams, Sonny Carter, and I used to walk the French Quarter on Mardi Gras, I was far more entertained by the screaming matches between the crowd and these guys than by the debauchery of Mardi Gras on Bourbon St. Regards, Jeffery _________________ Jeffery Smith Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA www.400tx.com On Jun 29, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: > Had a look at your photos. Particularly like this one. Reading his > placard, I struck by the fact it doesn't mention gluttony :-) > http://www.400tx.com/People/people9.html > > Douglas > _________ > Douglas Barry > Bray, Co. Wicklow > Republic of Ireland > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 11:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward. > > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information