A Sunday morning, a hangover. Both undeserved. My Christmas shopping took in a lot of bookish things this year. Waterstones 3 for 2 offer looked generous, and made me smug until I realised all three books were actually just for me. Thanks anyway, mind. I also now (briefly) own three copies of "The Basic Eight", and I'm in a good mind to keep them, lined up on my shelf in prime viewing position so that when I eventually get Laura Llew into my boudoir I shall render her stupefied. Not that this is a good thing - I wonder if we shall see an Xmas post from la Llew? One of the reasons for this hangover is the inability of the non-sinister British male to approach a public bar and order a shandy. My god, what has the world come to? Do these people not remember the days when a can of Shandy Bass was the most s'phisticated, grown up thing you could drink? A step onwards and upwards from the beer-flavoured floppy sweet. Mmm, floppy sweets. So anyway, some brylcreemed boy who I could tell had me marked down as some kind of poofter refused point blank to buy me a half-lemonade drinkie. So I had to have proper lager, etc. etc. Luckily I was able to sleep till 11.30, so at least part of my day hasn't been spoiled. Belle and Sebastian, on the radio. Nice. Especially Photo Jenny! Aww! Stuart and Traceyanne at HDIF? Even nicer. Though possibly the first and last time the Buffalo Bars will hear the Human League being segued into Madonna in Ian Watson's lifetime ;) Everyone sent your Sinister pressies? Hmm? Thanks to my kind benefactor, btw, though I have successfully resisted opening it until the big day. I hope none of you have been peeking... Laters y'all. There's a bacon butty with my name on it (in lard) out there somewhere... Mark xxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+