hullo. Ive had the strangest day. I clocked in at work at 6.56, 4 minutes early, then spent the rest of the day having petty arguments with a colleague and being far too busy. Nick Dastoor materialised briefly, adding to my confusion. Come 2pm I was ready to go live in a camper van in South Shields. Walking home, there was nothing except a few stray feather boa feathers to suggest what awaited me. I climbed the stairs, and entered my room. A transsexual whirlwind has struck whilst I was working. Fake eyelashes, lipglossy emphemera and stockings littered the floor. Slowly, I began to recall that my flatmate had asked me if I minded her friends changing in my room. No, thats fine I had replied, not realising that it was their sex they were changing. I know that it was the work of drag queens, because theyd left their bus pass by the window. The photo was of a rather dull looking young man. Drag queens are fundamentally different from gay boys; gay boys tidy up before they leave, so i had to tidy a little. Anyhow, by this point I was rather hungry, so I descended into the kitchen. Once more opening the door was a surprise. Upon our dishwasher that cunningly doubles as a table and storage, was some kind of buffet. Dips, quiche, party eggs and tomato flowers greeted me. I was made up, for sure. Many empty wine bottles were on the sideboard. Thats my day so far. Bloody bizarre. Everyone else has gone to Mardi Gras, and Id love to be there. i don't know if i can bear to hear all that lovely pop music and not be able to go see it. i can't close the windows in this bloody weather though. on an actually serious note though, there was a feature on the telly last night on how Copeland made the Soho bomb, and i personally think that, on the eve of Pride and Mardi Gras, this is perhaps bad timing. Anyway. Im looking forward to the queens coming back here later. Ive not met a drag queen yet. Im a bit jealous of their make-up collections, truth told. Im sure there should be a better reason to write. This is the second time in as many days that Ive done this. Wow, theres a BUFFET in my kitchen and DRAG QUEENS in my bedroom. Could I really ask for more? Love lixi ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+