Hello, This is obviously my first post, and it's been a long and harrowing day, so this may be a bit disjointed. I'm fairly new to the world of B&S, but they've become somewhat familiar companions during my daily train rides in and out of downtown Chicago. Certain songs are now associated with particular landmarks, like Simple Things with the graffiti at the edge of an industrially destroyed field that says "picture us somewhere else". I always look for that, but when I try and explain it to anyone, they just look at me as though I'd asked them which brand of diapers they find most absorbent. But onward. I'm another bookshop girl, relegated to the children's section, and most of my workdays are a blur of escalators and credit cards. It would be somewhat bleak except for beautiful scenery and loveable, snide coworkers. It seems like all of you enjoy anecdotes, and it's been fun reading all around. Here's one of mine for your reading (dis) pleasure. Chicago, like any city, is full of characters, some incredibly fun, some tragic, some that are frightening beyond description. Once, on a night that i was working quite late, I left work and headed for Walgreens, when I ran across a man dressed as Jesus, complete with a cross slung over one shoulder that looked as though it were nailed together with love. I followed him inside, and decided to see what his drugstore needs were. I caught up with him in the snack aisle, selecting a package of hostess cupcakes, and the whole thing was somehow a poem in and of itself: the cross, the cupcakes, and the deliberately deadpan faces of the cashiers and customers. I guess he felt he was fulfilling his purpose in roaming the streets in his garb, and any hint of absurdity had the importance of a paper scrap scuttling by his feet. Well, I am being assaulted with pitiful looks by my hungry significant other, so I suppose I should go away again. B. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+