JL: Hello you gorgeous bunch of lovelies. This is Miss J Lucy and Miss Mandee May reporting back from the first ever Colorado Sinister meet-up. I've been here a fortnight and what have we been up to? Oh, you know, the usual meet up stuff... drinking and talking about YOU. The highlight for me was spotting a big, pink and blue machine flashing through a big window into the cold, Boulder night, a machine that plays Mr Wonderful, Holiday and that really, really easy Backstreet Boys one, a machine that said DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION on it! We had been on the sauce, we each had a pocketful of dollars, we were complete DDR virgins and we thought Ken Chu (note obligatory mention) would appreciate our efforts. We were soo encircled by a crowd of people who certainly seemed to appreciate our efforts. Or maybe they just appreciated our jiggling breasts. What do you think, Mandee? ************************* Well, certainly Lucy, I was attracted to the DDR machine by the Ken Chu lookalike gettin' down on that flashing lit-up dance platform (of course, the aforementioned Lookalike did not have NEARLY enough style to be a true Chu.. and also, let's give Lucy and I credit for mentioning Mr. Chu TWICE now in the same post). After seeing the Chu get down, we both agreed to find the nearest bar, down a few Red Bull & Vodkas, and stagger back to the arcade to use all this Taurine-influenced energy. The results were not alltogether disappointing. Even after a few sweaty dollar bills were digested into the token machine, our feet sore from getting our groove on, and a whole room of 14 year-olds "totally amazed" by our moves, well, we were not satisfied, my friends. As for my breasts--goddamn, I could have killed somebody. Let's just say they added some style points. I am pretty saddened by the fact that Ms. Lucy has to leave on Thursday--although I cannot blame her for wanting to leave the bosom of the Westin hotel beds, I have had a thoroughly good time showing her around Ye Ol' Homefront of Colorado. Not only did we get down to DDR for an evening, but we even went punk bowling. Back to you, Lucy-- ************************* JL: PUNK BOWLING! Did you know that Denver punks like to bowl? I didn't, but Sebastian told us it was true. We cased the joint - not a punk in sight, but the shop sold bowling balls with skulls in them! Then, we spotted a girl with black, spiky hair and more eyeliner than the average chick. Welcome to the bowling alley, Punk Number One. Before you could say "pierce my nose with a rusty safety pin", the place was teeming with punks. I always thought bowling shoes were a mod thing, but one chap had painted NOFX on his, which isn't a mod thing to do at all! The good thing about bowling is you get to bend over and show off your 'jelly'. However, punks are apparently not ready for jelly, as only one of us got chatted up and the chatter upper was... what did you call him, Mandee? ************************* Why, Lucy, I believed I called him a wanker.. he was a bit slow, though, because it took him about five minutes to register and then he muttered out a weak "Bitch" to me while walking away with his tail tucked under his legs. However, I believe my scored suffered from the pitcher of watery Coors Lite we received as a bonus--I slipped from a 109 to a 73 then to a 49. I was humbled. It was nice that we had such a crowd, though, because I could take time out inbetween frames to talk more about..well, YOU! I thought things couldn't get much better than a little bit of Punk Bowling, but after last Saturday's exhausting sweat session on the DDR machine, well, I will say that I was pleasantly surprised. If only we could have found that Pantone bag that we saw in the shop window--- ************************* JL: In Boulder, we found two Magnetic Fields related things. The fist was a bright pink bag that said PANTONE 2xx (I am not a Pantone expert, I don't remember the actual number) and Mandee and I thought it would be just wonderful to find a blue bag that said PANTONE 292. It would, wouldn't it? But the pink bag was in a display and we couldn't work out which shop in Boulder had the Pantone bags and we searched and searched in the pouring rain with no luck at all and ended up getting all wet and in need of beer. So we had beer. The second Magnetic Fields related thing, which was acquired with haste, was a book called the Bad Beginning by one Lemony Snicket. They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but I believe that Snicket books *should* be judged by their covers, because their covers are ace. I can tell, just from looking at the cover, and especially by reading what's written on the back, that Snicket pishes all over Rowling and her wizard, even though I have not actually read either book (yet). Well, I think that's about all I have to tell you, except that I must give huge props to Mandee for being such a star and looking after me for the past couple of weeks which, as you know, haven't been easy, so it's been good to have a friend. Juicy Lucy x ************************* Based upon my first sinister miniature two-week long picnic with Ms. Lucy, I have to say that sinister picnics are fantastic. I've had a brilliant time with Lucy and I hope that maybe soon enough I can crawl over to London so we can play DDR again, maybe even YOU can join in, eh? Balderdash confusion, Miss Mandee May P.S. 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