Hello Sinister, I am writing y'all today for the comfort of strangers. I've hardly met any of you, have only posted a few times in a few years, and then it was usually for some kind of music nerdism. Today I'm writing to mourn: I've lost a friend to horrific violence this week and I can't make sense of it. I just read some of the posts here from the last few months and found it cheering. If I knew you, I'd say "glad to know ye." As it is, I'll say thanks for the spiriting words. If I'm ever in the UK I will like to show off my bowling abilities, which are occasionally impressive. I will note that I used to bowl with a very rich friend in high school - he was given a mint silver 1967 BMW sports coupe when he turned 16 - and once he made me pay for him with the following excuse: "Can you pay for me, dude? All I have is 100s." Affectionately Ethan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+