...but I R!O!C!K! the house. No, really, I do. Ask anyone. Anyone who was around these parts back in the days of yore when I occasionally posted, that is. I've been here off and on since before I was universally challenged, which is a good five years now. Crikey. Still, entering the ranks of (temporary) corporate whoredom (oo-er Ms) has the advantage of free email, as does having a desk at which no-one can overlook what I'm doing on my computer. So, emerging from the nursery once more like a sartorially-challenged butterfly, here I am. People who were loafing around Camden last Saturday will have seen me, myself and my big black jumper inhabiting the pub for a few hours. It's funny how recently I've been regressing to my adolescent practice of dressing nearly entirely in black, but with rather less of a crippling sense of self-consciousness. Still acutely self-conscious, just not crippled by it anymore - only mildly sprained, as Minnie Driver said in Grosse Point Blank. Anyway, good pubnic, y'all. I still want to know who was using yer man Ken's buttocks as a pillow later that night, though. Curse Shepherd's Bush and all its housewarming parties! Will Salt (or Salty Will - heh - an epithet surely applicable to an ancient bluesman of the highest stamp) = very blond, no? It occurred to me while supping a tasty pint of apple derivative on Saturday that (from my own observations) Sinister is predominantly brunette, unless there are hordes of platinum starlets out therre who haven't been showing themselves. After all, the best looking girls might _well_ be staying at home ;P However, this means that I call on Miss Juicy Lucy Alder to once again renounce her more-or-less natural hair colour and hit the bleach in order to redress this balance somewhat. I would, but my hair is alarming enough without making it light up at night. To segue non-secretarially: Anyone (with better-than-average taste) who heard tompaulin in session on John Peel the other night will have been thrilled by their wry loveliness. Is there *by any chance* anyone in the house who can tell us if there is any associated product available for us to waste our pocket money on? I have my suspicions... It's odd, but no matter what combination of twisty reggae, twee techno, and wailings of skinny boys lamenting their lovelessness that Mr Peel plays of an evening, I never fail to be soothed, unlike the effect of the medulla-crushing arse (now _there's_ an arresting visual, if you like) that is currently spewing out of the office radio. John Peel should be marketed as a comforting blanket. No, wait, he already is... Vandalised bus shelters are, conversely, not reminiscent of comforting blankets at all. They can be startlingly beautiful, though, what with scattered cubes of safety glass scattered around ('Hackney diamonds', I read somewhere) or crazed mandala patterns radiating from the focal points of not-quite-hard-enough blows and looking like imitations of gorgeous spiderwebs laid down by secret crafty hands. But it might just be me that likes them. I've spent considerably more than 15 minutes composing this, as I was dragged off to a BIG GROWNUP MEETING halfway through. Criminy! Deathless prose it ain't, but I'll inflict it on you anyway. Love and shenanigins, Liz D :x *i think that i shall never see a person lovely as a tree* +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+