home (home!)
The second time, how was it pronounced? An urgent whisper, a hoarse croak, silently intoned? If it had been a friend's name, would your arm have fallen limp at your side before the coda? Or would you have waved even more frantically, a plastered grin, cowlick, raindrops (or tears) caught in your lashes? It is always raining inside me. '97-'98 was the winter of El Nino. It rains in winter here. The basement of Green Library flooded. The grad students volunteered to rescue the books. Penny organized them. I didn't help. All the lit books are down there, too. Denton Welch's books remained intact. But trudging to the library (to study!), shoes and socks soaked through beneath the desk for hours. How did we do it? Checking the paper for weather reports in Columbus, London, San Francisco. San Francisco is always colder than you would expect. In London two weeks of intense heat mid-July then back from Paris in mid-August and it was over. Over! Nothing like the way it plays out here. And in Columbus day and night without relief, the stifling heat, the humidity, the green tea shampoo I used that summer. But this summer I stayed indoors mostly, so I wouldn't know.
old Foxgloves song 'Chicken In A Bucket'
Foxes and Chickens do not mix. Foxglove1 needs to work on his southern drawl.
the San Francisco picnic, in all its exotic improbability
There was a meet up at Dalva in June of '99. I think five people attended. San Francisco is not exotic. It is homely. But I'll be looking for girls with flowers in their hair. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+