Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] Re: Digest Number 1161 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:37:24 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:59:38 -0500, Blay Tarnoff wrote: >=A0Gary Snyder wrote: >=A0> >=A0>=A0Blay wrote: >=A0>=A0> >=A0>=A0>=A0[T]here is no evidence whatsoever that second hand >=A0>=A0>=A0smoke harms anybody. =A0Zero. >=A0> >=A0>=A0Nonsense. =A0There is, at least, the evidence of wheezing >=A0>=A0and eye irritation/tearing of various people in the >=A0>=A0presence of second hand smoke. Like what perfume sometimes does to me . My prima facia= evidence for my particular taste for cigars is the continued existence= of a lot of really old cigar smoking men . >=A0>=A0He may not have to you or me, but rest assured that >=A0>=A0he most certainly came off as a racist - as did the >=A0>=A0LP by extension - to large numbers of readers. > >=A0Not black ones, I would wager, and not honest ones who can= read. Agree . I know most of my melanated friends would think you're pretty up tight to worry about it . AND they'd get Joe's point= . Of course they tend to be a pretty hip crew . Here's an image= of my friend Thom Corn with his cotton plant in front of his construction at this year's Tompkins Square Art Show : http://cosy.com/art/ThomCorn/Tompkins04-0.jpg --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 WriteUp : .CoSy.MidWinterParty 17 =A0:= http://cosy.com/y04/MidWinter17.htm