No doubt to the eternal joy of all the unfortunate individuals who have been receipt of the other missives I have penned, this one is going to be uncommonly short. I just thought, in the spirit of reminiscences regarding Teletext, I would mention a hitherto neglected page: Sam Brady's television reviews. I checked recently and was overjoyed to see that it stil existed, having been going since the days when I was an overweight child sitting on a mis-shapen sofa that overlooked and untended back garden in Hemel Hempstead. It still contains a picture of him with a moustache that makes his upper lip look as if it is home to a well-tended hedgerow. He always looks beligerant, and writes pseudo-witty comments on the goings on in Coronation Street, London's Burning and Eastenders. Sort of like an academic of television culture crossed with Gary Bushell. Even more shocking is that the blocky image of him on the Teletext page is in fact an exact likeness of the individual, who REALLY exists. Yes, human beings are working somewhere in the bowels of Television Centre, scribbling away for Teletext. It isn't merely the product of some enormous ticker tape computer with whirring cogs and sinister intentions. On an entirely different subject, and the real reason I am writing this, I was wondering if anybody went to Edinburgh University, because I was thinking of applying. Is it good? Is the city nice? Does it have a good English department? That's it, really. I have a propensity towards lengthy goodbyes in which I try and inject a bit of difference and peculiar interest, but, to save your fair eyes from any further trouble and to free just a little bit of time for you to do other things, I shall restrain myself. Spend it well. Read a poem, sing, go to the cinema (an Ingmar Bergman penned film just came out!) or do any number of other life-affirming things. Ruvi. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+