Hello Sinister folks, Apologies in advance... I went to see Hefner at the Virgin Megastore just yesterday. They rocked, and Erica kissed me on the cheek, so I'm still blushing; and I met up with big Dave, who, once again, told me off for not posting enough, so here goes... I met someone who likes B&S! And not off the list - she is a colleague from my new work (I have this grate holiday job explaining science to little kids in this little science museum type place, which is quite twee in itself really). She's really nice but I'm not sure if I will see her again until christmas or something since she's only working at holidays because she's at university during term time :/ Mmm, this post is crap compared to my last one. No poetry this time. I was thinking about writing one about Lauren Laverne, who is my latest TV crush (I do still love you, Hannah S Club, but you're just going to have to deal with my new love), but I seem to have writer's block or something. Hmm, she has a curiously similar name to the subject of my last poem. Do you think that maybe Laura Llew will not send us a photo of her because she is hiding her secret that she is, in fact, Lauren Laverne? Prolly not - that's like my theory that Mick Cooke is Geri Haliwell. Mmm, well it's not really characteristic of me to go on and on like this in reality.. so I will stop now and just finish with a story that a friend forwarded to me (before anyone goes crazy, I personally don't view it as anti-american, just anti-capitalist or something like that - I don't think there's an anti-american trend on the list. I believe this story was written by an American too.) Feel free to press delete now: An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied, only a little while. The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The American then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time? The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life, senor." The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NY where you will run your expanding enterprise." The Mexican fisherman asked, "But senor, how long will this all take?" To which the American replied, "15-20 years." The Mexican fisherman asked, "But what then, senor?" The American laughed and said that's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions. "Millions, senor? Then what?" replied the Mexican fisherman. The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos." -- I think I've gone on for quite a while now, I'd better stop Seeya James +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+