On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > This is such a funny ongoing story, Bruce. Great come back by the bookstore > owner. Keep us posted on the "Walker Pin-ups that enraged Canadian Women!". > Cheers, Christine
Agreed, keep us posted Bruce Dave > > > > On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A few weeks after an old lady attacked my bookstore owner friend with >> the crumpled-up ball of my work comes word of a fresh complaint. >> >> A number of my more recent images, printed on canvas and framed, are >> hung in a store window down on Lakeshore Road in Toronto (not far from >> Frank). When Candi and Jim, the store owners, put them up I warned >> them about the Bookstore Versus Little Old Lady episode and pointed >> out that two of the images in their windows were large renditions of >> my pin-ups. They laughed and said something to the effect that "Oh >> don't worry: this is the Lakeshore. Anything goes here." >> >> So apparently last Friday a dual-ponytailed young woman, 19 or 20, >> came into the store and waited patiently to get Candi's attention. She >> insisted that those pin-up images were inappropriate and should be >> removed from the window. Candi said "rubbish" and the girl said, "but >> they are in their underwear -- women and children could see them!" >> >> Candi, displaying her stubborn and mischievous streak, retorted that >> there's an enormous illuminated billboard down near the Gardiner >> Expressway (a 6-lane elevated highway that runs right through downtown >> Toronto) showing a man wearing only his Stanfield undershorts and that >> if she could get them to remove that, Candi would remove my pin-ups. >> :-) >> >> The girl left. But maybe she'll return with a mob? Stay tuned ... >> >> >> [This is one of the offending images: http://flic.kr/p/c6B7mj >> And the other: http://flic.kr/p/bqUuwm ] >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
