Morning. At 7.46am, even Nigeria Vs Sweden is having difficulty keeping awake, so a quick post might be just the ticket. While Matthew Henderson is indeed a cosmopolitan, kooky-girl-attracting hunk, I was slightly disturbed by his repeated assertion that everyone (other than the hard kids, like Laurel, or Amy, say) on the sinister list is shy and/or twee, and the acceptance, even vindication therein. Shyness isn't per se a *bad* thing, but it can make life very difficult for those afflicted, as well as for those around them. So I feel a little uncomortable when people seem to be suggesting celebrating our shyness, or defining ourselves through it. There are SO MANY marvellous qualities demonstrated by even the self-confessededly timid people on sinister and in #sinister that it seems a shame to focus on an aspect that's so limiting. Of course, as some of you may know, shyness is something I don't demonstrate a lot of in Sinisterland. Real life, however, is pretty different, so I'm not being quite as hypocritical as it may at first seem :-) Tweeness is a different matter. I see it as a state of contrivance, and there is seldom anything good about affecting a pose. Just my tuppence'th. Anyway, lecture over, and for those of you who think I'm a self-important prick, you'll be cheered by the fact that I had a scooter accident yesterday, and blimey, do I feel sore today! Hurray for helmets, though, and for jeans and winter coats - if yesterday had been much warmer, I'd have been in a lot more discomfort :-) Oil patch, rain, swerving to avoid speeding vehicle, skid, crash, ouch. In a brief couple of seconds I've made my bike almost unsellable :/ A bit of a negative post, this one, so sorry about that. Hopefully there'll be another post along soon from, say, the delicious amykins, to prick up your passions... Ho hum, Mark xxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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 +-+ +-+ "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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+