i no longer trust technology. not only does it allow the likes of robin and big stu to portray me as a transexual femme (or homme) fatale, but it has also stopped me receving email from one account since june. and i only realised on thursday. so if anyone has tried to mail me at archel@iname.com or has sent anything to buzzwords and got no response, that's why. it's working again now though. though not feeling creative enough myself to take part, i reckon that the case of the runaway thread is the best thing to happen to sinister since... well, since astrid. who is a star. there's something indescribably endearing about a 15-year-old swede posting expressions such as 'sod it'. tigermilking was fab last week, though at the same time reminiscent of apocalypse now due to the sweltering temperature, crazed mutterings and dark shapes moving ominously across the sweaty trotwood. my friend nicola seems undamaged (so far) by her first sinister experience, and we received 5-star hospitality at greenwich's most exclusive building site - thanks guys :) in other news, i'm off to croatia in a couple of weeks to get some sunshine (although after working in a language school for 6 months i'm not sure i can cope with any more strange foreign ways) but before i go i should have time to do some long-overdue work on buzzwords, so if anyone has any new poems, stories or reviews, get them in to me now on buzzwords@bigfoot.com. and now let us have a moment's silence for robin stout and owen lowery. their sins were scarlet but their posts were read. luv archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+