[lbo-talk] Photos of the desert

[Chuck Grimes]

Of course I thought of The Third Man when I first read Wells' dismissal of 
Antonioni. If there was ever a long take worth the film, it was the closing 
scene. I've seen it over and over since I was kid.

Are we the last of LBO? Has it been that long? Well when I started I was a 
bright eyed boy of 52 or 3 with a kid still in school. Bill Gates didn't 
believe in the internet and you had to kludge together dial up and email 
because Windows didn't work. Remember Netscape? Now I am an old man with 
grandkids---cheerfully living off the US Treasury Department.

Ah the good old days when Judith Butler got bad writing awards and 
postmodern nitpicking over the subaltern sent imperialism into peels of 
laughter and derision.

CG