How's the concert circuit? All you lucky dogs that are making me drool on my keyboard... it's not fair! OK, I think I'll live. Just wanted to get that out of my system. Working in a library, one discovers just how much crap the average smalltown house wife really reads... it's amazing! Shelf after shelf of romances and cooking-themed mysteries (I am am completely serious... sample title "Ham and Eggs: a theatrical murder mystery" and there are worse). Job for the day: find all the crap that people do NOT read, and take it off the shelves. I keep getting dirty looks from old women who probably think that I am an escaped mental patient, just trying to ruin their library enjoyment (is there such a thing?) for the day, as I am doing exactly the opposite of what I am supposed to. I love libraries and books - just when I don't have to work there, and have to deal with other people's messes (can no one put anything back??? stacks of romances {read by 70 year olds!!!! Why? oh, please Lord don't put those pictures into my head} strewn across the walkways!) Stupid women. Amazing fact... people in small towns read ONLY the crap! I have now pulled off the shelves because of lack of use: Wuthering Heights, most of the collected works of Charles Dickens (Great Expectations was last out of this hellhole in 1978), and the essays of Emile Zola, among others. And these books are going in the sale bin, or the garbage, to make room for more cooking mysteries! If you want to read anything in this town, you have to either buy it (which I do not have the money for :P) or Inter-Library Loan it from some place across the state (and sometimes from across the country). Sad. *And the girl with her nose in a book begins weeping, quietly so as not to disturb the old women choosing their erotic pleasures* Whooo. That was a good rant. Sorry. Oops, I have one more that is getting to me. I actually bought "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence", as the entire world has told me how good it is ("Ann... if you love the Dharma Bums, you'll die for Zen") IT SUCKS!! BAD! I quit after the first 100 pages! Why does anyone read this? Any of you out there that like it? Can you explain the attraction, Please??? I really would like to know! And here's my requisite B&S content: what the hell does the lyrics "she can't afford to please a girl / she's always wearing clogs" meand?? What is up with clogs??? Love the song... am clueless about that line. Three cheers for anyone who actually read to the bottom of this painful thing. Ann PS: it is a indication of an awfully sad mind to be ecstatically happy when one of your lines is included in "EE Fumblings Weekly Roundup"?? EE, I love you! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+