This is turning into an every Sunday sort of thing- Hello everyone, For Americans, today is the like the Christmas of Television. Super Bowl. Mmm-mm. I'm kind of rooting for the Oakland Raiders to slowly and painfully dismantle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, since the Bucs unmercifully thought fit to cause much wailing and gnashing in my hometown of Philadelphia by beating the living hell out of the Eagles. And really, Raiders vs. Bucs- it's a game between two pirates, and which name sounds tougher? Yup, that's right, the Raiders. Buccaneers is name more appropriate for, say, one of the tertiary characters in Pirates of Penzance, viz. "Hey, it's Lou the Buccaneer!", who bears an uncanny resemblance, maybe, to a bearded Danny Aiello (am I the only one who worries about this man's career?). But enough about football. Although I always thought it would be fun to have a Sinister List Sports Betting Pool. Living in the South, and yet being born in the North has many distinct disadvantages. The one that gets to me the most is that, whenever people know I spent most of my life in the North, they always assume that cold weather doesn't bother me. As in, it's 30 degrees F outside, and I say "Oh god it's cold." and they say to me in a rolling Southern drawl "well you should be used to it." I can only imagine what Southerners are taught in school about the North- I know the Civil War is sometimes referred to as "The War of Northern Aggression", but I mean, c'mon. It's like people think that being Northern-born means you spent the majority of your free-time adolescence outside in snowshoes, romping through the pure white powder, and pillaging neighboring iglooes. As if I had antifreeze in my blood. Is anyone else addicted to: a) America's Prince, the John F. Kennedy Jr. Story [in which we find wooden acting, very horribly conceptualized documentary style, and Portia de Rossi! not to mention a Moby song] or b)Giuliana from E! news. [this channel has become the most life-negating thing in my, well, life. This woman's mouth is fascinating beyond reason. It's...sharp somehow.] I feel weird admitting these things, and yet relieved at the same time. E! seriously has taken over a good 60% of my non-motor function brain space. well, I hope you're all doing well and amusing yourselves and others, Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+