Sinisteria-- Another beautiful day. All the office people are being so friendly to this janitoress lately, and so neat and tidy in their cubicles. It must be the magic of Spring! Also, the transsexual that I work with (male to female) told me the tale of the lusty threesome she just had. Not too titillating, but at least it gave me a wild story to tell my husband when I got home. Nicholas Passant wrote: "Jenny began a sentence with the voice of tragedy: ' Well, yes, in a Utopia where�'. That way lies ruin; that way lies surrender," and "I find the idea of free exchange rather exciting, actually. The Library is a tremendously powerful and radical idea, you know. Copyright be damned, I want to experience everything I possibly can NOW, and then � and only then � may you try and judge me." Hmmmm....you know, I also find the idea of free exchange exciting, and I have made free use of Napster. I use it like a radio--so I can experience a lot of different music, and then buy what I like. I don't come home with shitty CDs anymore. Maybe that's what the record companies are really afraid of. But anyway, I don't really consider this use of Napster copyright infringement. I like to think of it the way you view art at a museum, but you can't take it home with you unless you buy a print. I don't think the decision about the Glasgow Uni MP3s had anything to do with copyright. I think it was about artistic control. Which a songwriter is entitled to because songwriting *is* hard work. They've put themselves into their songs, which in my opinion makes them more irrevocably "theirs" than a copyright does. And... Nicholas' comments about Utopia were interesting and food for thought. My favorite names....Lydia, James, Alex, Eve....definitely not Tammy. I've always detested that name. It makes me think of a soggy pancake for some reason. Steve C. writes: "I've decided to study abroad in Rome for a semester as soon as my college will allow it." I wonder....if I'd fit in your suitcase? I've always wanted to go to Rome too. Rome is the Trevi Fountain scene from La Dolce Vita for me. I'd go to Pompeii, too. The sense of history would be overwhelming to me *anywhere* in Europe. Love and Macram�, Jenny Janitoria __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+