So, Christmas has come and gone. The good thing about it: seeing the family again. The bad thing about it: talking with the family again. I decided the best way to cope was to not sober up for the whole week. Other popular activities indluded watching Banzai videos as much as possible, and eating far too much chocolate (is there such a thing?). One of the advantages of having a mother working part-time in Thorntons... I like Dahling's idea that how you spent New Years Eve was how you want to die. In my case, outdoors somewhere, ridiculously drunk. That figures. At about midnight, I tried looking back at the last year, but I fell over. The best thing I saw in 2001 also, like Struan, involved football. And the numbers five and one. I made two New Year's Resolutions. The first was to do 50 sit-ups every day to get rid of the effects of the Christmas alcohol, which has a tendency to turn your six-pack into a keg. This resolution lasted, erm, about 0 minutes, since I haven't done a single sit-up yet. The second resolution was to travel to Guatemala, Belize and Honduras in May / June. Which should be a bit easier to stick to. Further festive joy came with the announcement that Steps have split up. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr Waterman. Apparently, two of the five band members wanted to break the band up; and so obviously, by Mr Waterman's counting methods, that meant that they won the vote. "Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut!" (see below). Anyone? Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+