Hello, Looks like it's me again, I always seem to turn up round here in the end. /me flops on your sofa for a bit. Thank you those who have done their little bits to revive the list after it had its near-fatal heart seizure, and been brave enough to post thoughtful things in the midst of the raging inferno. No thanks to the few who haven't bothered, and just followed the dictates of their flying egotistical fingers (good name for a band? no), and not really added to our collective consciousness. This list seems to be dividing nicely into sheep and goats. I can't remember whether we're supposed to prefer sheep or goats, someone biblical will remind me, but lets say the sheep CARE because I once knew a sheep called Boris in Normandy who ate apples out of your hand at the table. So I'm pleased to see there are very few goats, if you're following me, and their numbers might drop a little more in a bit. I said I would do something if anyone tried to start up that ridiculous non-debate again, and my god, there's nothing original in it. No disrespect for goats. Just please remember, if you send a mail to the list trying to start up the debate all over again of who's posting what, criticising others posts, picking people off with your big penis-shaped gun, you'll be getting a mail from me. And the rest of you, please know that although Mummy gets a little angry, she loves you, especially those who take more than 5 minutes over what they send to us all. And those who've mailed me I'm *still* wading through so don't take my lack of reply as anything other than being like a squirrel with too many nuts. I fully expect a mail from Peter Miller (sheep of this parish) about big penis-shaped guns now, hopefully. Did I dream or did someone called Spencer Lloyd send a mail a month or so ago about doing the business in a park and his "colleague" humming the theme from "Cats - The Musical" as he did? More of that please Spencer, it was a delightful treatise on sex, love, music and power in the 21st Century. Or was it another list I was on? How embarrassing. Has anyone else bought the Magnetic Fields triple, put it on, thought "ho-hum" and put it in the cupboard, only to find it leap out and whack you on the back of the head a bit later? There's something fabulous about a single piece of work (because I think it is) which is so long that by the time you've got to the end, you can't remember the beginning again, and when you get to it you think, "oh yeah THAT" and like it all over again. I think it's clever and nice and cosy and scary and I don't care if bits sound a bit like the Divine Comedy, Tim. Oh and thanks for those who've told me that the latest messages page on the archive site seems to have some messages from January in it. They're actually from November, and I was the first to give Jeff, who runs the site, the bad news that it had happened - he's looking at it. Jeff's doing a wonderful service though, for free, and makes a lot of people happy, so he gets a big round of applause from me. A bit like Spencer. In lighter news, I'm going to start up a new photo gallery for Sinister, and see if anyone dares send me anything. If anyone sends any, it's going to be called "Squishy Bits", or "Gimme Some Skin" or something, and what you have to do is send me a close-up of a part of your body, in focus or not, and I'll put them up on the page. If any particular theme starts to dominate, I might call it "Breasts and Penises". If I get enough bits to make up a person, I might turn list management over to it. Oh and Katrina's just sent me another B&S diary. To follow. Unless you can anonymize your mail yourself (you can and it's most acceptable), it's likely I will know whose bit is whose, but you can always start a new hotmail account and send it me from there if you're shy. I promise that I won't ever divulge who owns what, and your bits will be labelled like in a morgue. This ain't no list crush. But please don't send me stupid cuttings out of Freeman catalogues (say) because if I find people cheating I'll go in a sulk and close it down - genuine you-bits please, I won't be accepting "funnies". I'm hoping Peter sends me a picture of his big penis-shaped gun though. Brings a different perspective on "put a bit of you in your posts to the list". I like sheep. Honey xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+