Markelby Minxed: "As for the hot pants, it's just scurrilous gossip on a slow-news day. They're perfectly innocent shorts, bought for $2 at a goodwill store in Denver, and they don't reveal anything they shouldn't. I'm not that kind of boy!" And on that sorrowful note, I shall now begin my Sinister Post of Lamentations. Lament 1:1 Bright Eyes opening for Belle & Sebastian? I met a sinisterine at a Bright Eyes show a few years ago. Afterwards, he made a pass at me in a cemetery. I'd be interested to see what would happen with a whole swarm of sinisterines after Bright Eyes played. Not interested enough to actually pay to see Bright Eyes play, mind you. However, those going to the Cali shows & picnics - considered yourself warned. Lament 1:2 I had heard from Sinister NY picnic mommy Eric that there wasn't a diluge of response to the announced Prospect Park picnic and was I going to shame you all into coming. I mean the Gayest of Jays will be there! Do you really want to miss your chance to meet a real life North Carolinian?! (Be warned, they bite.) However, since Aruni's picnic announcement just came in I'm thoroughly confused on what is happening. Will the two proposed picnics merge into one HUGE prospectful picniciking force or will there be a battle of the picnics - complete with food flinging and ant cheerleaders? If there's a fight, then I'm siding with Eric and Jay's picnic. They might be gay and might not know how to fight but at least all battle plans will be executed with style. Actually, I take that back. I hear GayJay wields a pretty mean foil. Personally, I just want an opportunity to yell, "Parry his flank!" in public. Heaven knows that my life already suffers seriously from absence of blade as it is. I just realized how smutty one can get with fencing terms so I looked up in a fencing glossary on-line all the terms which begine with L. Here's a choice few: La Belle, Low Line, Low Invitation, and Lunge. Fencing terms sum me up completely! Who would have thought it?! Lament 1:3 The other thing I'm looking forward to during the Llew Takes Manhattan 2003 spree next week is the fact that the DOROTHY PARKER festival will be taking place that weekend. Wheeeee! I think if anyone else is planning to be around that you should come if interested. (You can sign up at: http://www.dorothyparkernyc.com/). I know I will be there - eating lunch at the round table at the Algonquin, doing a walking tour of all of Parker's old haunts through Manhattan (naturally, there's a bar stop after each actual home or old employment site), watching excerpts from the play "Here Lies Dorothy Parker, etc. The only sad part is that I shan't be staying at least one night at the Algonquin (which is on my To Do Before I Die list) because it's too expensive even with the fact that they're giving a discount to those attending the festival. Friend: What do you have to do to get the Dorothy Parker discount? Commit suicide? Me: I believe you have to sleep with all the males on the staff. Good thing she wasn't bi-sexual or you'd really be tired by the time you went to bed that night. I tried to get someone to split the costs of the room with me but I think my warning that I'd probably end up hitting on them scared them away. Tsk, tsk. Her name was Llew but they all called her Llewse, Ll PS - Is there anyone in the New York area who would let a nice soft sinister crash on their couch/floor/dry porch for any night on the beginning of next week (Monday - Thursday)? Obviously since I used the word "nice" I'm not referring to but I can vouch for them and am scrambling to find inexpensive places for people I know who will be up there. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+