it is indeed encouraging that an icon of popular culture such as silent bob should like another such icon, john hughes. in fact it's the best thing about silent bob, and there are many great things. i watched pretty in pink all on my own the other night and it was bliss. even though the rich kid/poor kid divisions have been superseded (in my experience anyway) by the far more elusive battleground of 'cool', it still rings true. and yes, i am aware that that statement says things about me that i would rather it didn't. also, madeleine said: "... this vision of loveliness that is Molly Ringwald. What a truly marvellous woman she is (well, was)." what do you mean, 'was'? i'll have you know that molly is still looking gorgeous, albeit in rather more sober attire these days, and the fact that she's now making sub-genre movies for tv cannot sully her. ruvi wrote, divinely as usual, of loonies. i think it's true that many of the most out there people aren't obvious. and the ones that seem to be should be subjected to rigorous bullshit detector tests (see discussion of 25p man etc, passim.) but a man holding some pills in one hand and a bundle of tissue in the other stood in front of me on wednesday and just kept saying 'please help me, please help me, please help me', which has a tendency to sneak past most bullshit detectors, mine anyway. i gave him my sandwich and felt terrible all day. in my capacity as literature programmer/researcher type person i'm just about to write to alan moore. i'm ridiculously excited by this. alan moore! responsible for one of the greatest novels of the century, though i don't think watchmen was ever discussed on the late review... which is criminal really. no content at all. much like my diary. oh yeah, one of my four albert hall tickets might be going spare if anyone gets desperate. offers accepted :) luv archel ps: i don't particularly like kings of convenience, i've decided. they do not stick in the head or heart. even sugababes do the former. b&s do both obviously. *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+