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Thursday, November 17, 2011

"Ain't nobody can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back?"




"Ain't nobody can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back?"
- Dutch Schultz about Leg's Diamond




Embedding disabled on the immediately above video - of a young posse of light-on-their feet (in fact, by 40 seconds in, they are fairly bouncing) gang-bangers as they shoot up (2 fatalities) the Silver Nugget Casino in Las Vegas.



Compare the electric sang-froid of the dancing brothers compared to the flatfooted, middle-aged, workman-like ferocity of the Angels vs Mongols' dust-up (triple homicide) at Harrah's Laughlin Nevada casino.



Like the dumb-ass painter I am, and like the patent bore at every party I've ever been to - I tend to assume that what's interesting to me is interesting to you.....thus this post.



If not then - as the NYC Police are wont to put it - "Move along, nothin' to see here."