Ello babies Blimey is it that time of year again? The cheltenham festival is upon us once a year, and unlike all those unsavoury music/book/theatre festivals this one gives you a chance to win POTS OF MONEY as it is a festival of HORSE RACING. Also it gives you a chance to lose pots of money, but there you go... In previous years I have (following andrew tracey's lead http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199903/msg00281.html) picked horses with appropriate sinister-related names and recommended them to the list, generally to NO USE at all. Then yesterday I picked FOUR WINNERS and a second in the first five races, so I have decided not to recommend any horses this year as this was clearly putting some sort of voodoo on me betting (NB I was doing a placepot so as my pick in the sixth race was a real actual three-legged donkey picking the first four winners effectively came to nought). And if it's cheltenham, then it must be almost time to book GLASTO tickets. We have had sini-meetups at the last two festivals (well last year was a meeting of the tribes really as it featured sinis, bowlies, ilx0rs, and various random others), and look there's even a little sub-list to join and everything: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/siniglasto/ And if it's almost time to book glasto tickets then it must be almost almost picnic season, yay!! Also, blimey, kieran used paragraphs ;) Where are my glasgow tickets? Everyone else seems to have theirs and I booked mine on the first day and everything... Like robin I am also intending to get over to embra at some point in my trip up north, but still working out details. Last night I went to see THE CHALETS who are GREBT and RAWK and everything. Did I dream someone asking if they have an album out and if not, was it here, or in another place? THE CHALETS, of course, feature an ex-sinisterine (Ms Paula Cullen BOOZE EXPLOSION), but this isn't the sole reason for their smashingness, and I think I agree with DV about them becoming rockier, but this not being a bad thing. Also also blimey! Old skool lurkers ahoy, eg, KADO, PEET, MAY, MIKKELSEN, NOH etc etc See you soon kids xoxo CarsmileSteve PS surely it's also time for some more sinister bowling action? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+