How's things sinister? Hope you're all well, but then how can you not be feeling happy it is Spring time (people on the Southern hemisphere have autumn now and that's not to be sniffled at either)? Yes spring is finally actually here, I can tell because the big fuck-off spiders are crawling out of their big fuck-off hideouts to my house to give me a big fuck-off scare; and today at lunchtime I took a walk around the pretty lake next to our place of work, and the ducks have started their mating rituals already. All the young drakes were there, competing for attention of the young feminine, flapping their wings, and racing each other along the waves and serenading their maidens on the top of their lungs. At the end the lady duck went for the largest drake. Shallow, maybe, but then I suppose that's why ducks are confined to the shallow ponds. The two rejected male swam away, there wasn't another single female duck around. Too tired to cry foul, the fowls retire to sulk over the cruelty of the world - one day they'd learn that there's no point. No use, to be sulking. Anyway, Dimitra, whose name now seems synonymous with picnics (for all the good reasons), proposed for a picnic on the Wednesday before the Brixton gig. Unfortunately, unless she decides to hold this next to my office in Milton Keynes (hey, we have a lake here at least - with shagging in it, no less, plus other filth), I'd have to send my apologies as I have to work that day. However, on this coming Sunday, there is a one-day concert/DJing extraveganza organised by Track and Field called "Pow! to the people" (yes..) at The Monarch in Camden/Chalk Farm, featuring the illustrious Camera Obscura, no less, plus other bands. That band itself features Stuart Murdoch's very own lady duckling Tracy-Anne, no less, plus other members, and possibly someone from our very own Sinister Parish, so there are even B&S connections for those of you who are obsessed. And everyone in London are recommended to go. I don't know what the format of the event (yes, the Track and Field event) is to be like, the website says the doors open at 2pm, so maybe there's even time for a picnic beforehand, for those of you who are inclined in that way. It is v.close to primrose hill. Ducks and Red Bulls Ken P.S.: I wonder, now that all three B&S treasure hunt trophies have been found, if the answers to the various treasure hunt clues will be revealed to us any time soon. P.S.2.: Why was Hannah Brown in a bath full of jizzz the last time she posted? I am intrigued, is it just another mystery that I'll never solve? X-box: I can't think of a moral for the duck story apart from the lucky duck gets a fuck. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+