Lissenup, goofball. Clocked up another iteration on the flip-board of life yesterday... Im now the same age as Jimmy Cricket when he first died (Colwyn Bay: Victoria Pier, June 1974; audience consisted of discombobulated leftists expecting to see a slide-show on Aneurin Bevan). How delightful to see the phrase "fuckin nail" revived on almost exactly the second anniversary of its first appearance in these pages. We have one-time poster Ellis Bell to thank for that gem, not Brad the Lad. Thank the Lord God Our Vengeful Master In Heaven that *that* sort of jabbing invective doesnt appear anymore. There have been mumblings about the Decline Of Belle and Sebastian. Is there any greater contrast in nature than that between the intense pleasure of slinging a handful of fresh TicTacs into ones mouth (the aromatics, the clash of enamel and carnauba wax) and the mundane experience of grinding the minty bullets into sugary powder shortly afterwards? I think not. If we scale up these little barrels of fructive goodness to, say, the approximate size and complexity of a Scottish pop band, we see the gap between Lithe and Frowsy expands to, ooh, about four years. Ysee, as the Finns once sang (together, as a nation), Its Only Natural. Just a model of course, and one lacking a complete dataset (I cant get cinnamon ones anywhere). Underdastoored of late, arent we? Hes busy blogging, apparently. As the name suggests, this is an activity precisely between blagging and logging containing elements of both (the knavish scheming of the con-artist, the hardy outdoor endeavour of the lumberjack) while ultimately resembling neither. I just hope hes wrapped up warm. Or at least packing some heat. Ta-ta, Mik'. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+