No, not "Stuart and me", "Stuart and ME": an article by Paul Whitelaw in the Scotsman, what wrote that book. Possibly it's an extract or condensed Reader's Digest version. http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1811622005 Obviously I have an interest to declare as I've had the same thing for 12 years, and our pal Ciara MacLaverty, the cover star of Feeling Sinister has for longer. If you don't have ME, you're just not hip. Calling it CFS just isn't where it's at, but if you're not in the UK, that's what you might know the condition as. It's not a fantastic description of ME - I'm currently in the biggest relapse of my life, and wouldn't manage sitting at a piano for half an hour just now as per the article. In fact, we have a harmonium in the front room, Ivor Cutler fans. But it's broken, which is probably a blessing, at least for cats and neighbours. My favourite Ivor Cutler song is probably "Sharks", which you need to hear. Anyway, the other point of this mail is to test the list, because it's having jitters. I spent yesterday trying to figure out why, with the admirable help of Sir Kenneth of Chu, who I have yet to thank. I think I know why now, and it's due to the stupidity of my hosting company for missprint.org, who've suddenly taken it upon themselves to count anyone mailing to more than about 10 people at a time as a spammer, with idiot new software what they wrote (I seem to be quoting Morecambe and Wise today, which isn't a core symptom of ME - sorry). Funnily enough, if you pay them a heck of a lot more money, they stop counting you as a spammer. I've put in a kind of part fix to fiendishly avoid the stupid block, so I guess if you get this mail it might have worked. Miss Print's will probably just explode though, like Willy Wonka's lift. So it looks like I will have to move missprint somewhere more friendly, which brings in a whole lot of other difficulties. Progress will be slow. In the meantime, please bear in mind that there may be times when the occasional message will get through to the digest, but not to the main list, and won't be listed in the archive until I patch it up later. I'm really sorry about this, and will fix it. If you're on the main list and notice your own message didn't get through, please feel free to resend, but wait 24 hours or more, like Spacey Stacey did. Digesters may have to put up with the odd repeated message until I can summon up the energy to move the list. But I'd rather be using it to write "We Rule The School", if I could. Please don't be put off posting! List membership number is a very very mysterious thing, worthy of investigation by Institutes of Parapsychology: it has remained constantly at near 1500 for about 5 years, much to my astonishment, and that's with me weaning out the old addresses constantly. So pipe up. Honey x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+