Dear Sinister, My, my. It's been a while since you've heard from me. Really the only reason I'm writing now is because of the post from a couple of days ago from someone *else* name Eric! How fucking cool is that? Okay, so it's not really that fucking cool. Still... HI NEW ERIC! Let's get together and bake cookies sometime. I was pleased to see Laura Llew announce the 2003 Sinister Christmas Present Exchange (trademark pending). I participated for the first time last year, and I encourage you all to this year. I was also pleased to see that Laura has initiated a shit list for those of you who don't send gifts. She's pretty nice about the whole thing though, since if I were in charge, the punishment would involve torture. Although then the Geneva Convention would probably come into effect, and that's always a hassle. The last time I posted, I was unemployed and looking for a job. I'm happy to report that I have been ostensibly employed for nearly a month as a substitute teacher. I've only worked two days thus far, and the scheduling is wildly erratic, but the pay is good. I subbed for a high school class a couple of weeks ago, and as I was reading the second book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, I eavesdropped on a group of annoying teenagers talking. First girl: Have you heard of Blondie? Second girl: No. FG: Well, have you heard of Debbie Harry? SG: Yeah... FG: Well, she's Blondie. They named the band after her. SG: Oh... FG: How about the Velvet Underground? At that point someone threw a superball at the wall, and I had to get up and yell. Aren't teenagers great? I'm going to go off and sob quietly now. Love, Eric P.S. Oh yeah, Belle & Sebastian released a new album a while ago. It's good. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+