sin·is·ter \'sin-es-ter, archaic se-'nis-\ adj [ME sinistre, fr. L sinistr-, sinister on the left side, unlucky, inauspicious] (15c) 1 archaic: UNFAVORABLE, UNLUCKY 2 archaic: FRAUDULENT 3: singularly evil or productive of evil § Thesaurus: sinister adj seriously threatening disaster sinister plot syn baleful, malefic, maleficent, malign; compare OMINOUS rel fateful, ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, con harmless, innocent, innocuous hello, you evil ones! for some reason i thought i'd share webster's take on us.... anyway, today is odd and ominous (sinister??) weather here in northwestern pennsylvania... i am camped out at a computer to write poems, and it was thundering and drizzling and all ready for a storm, which i love! but just now the sun poked through -- sun is highly uninspiring.... however, listening to Rachel's is very inspiring... on the subject of stuart's smashing antics, i think when i posted that i was dismayed at his actions, i was thinking of the guitar -- an innocent guitar cut short in its prime! i remember being at an ani difranco concert, and some well-meaning obsessive fan threw some sort of gift on stage, and it knocked over ani's other guitar which was in one of those stands, and ani proceeded to seethe to the audience, "this is folk music, okay? we don't smash guitars -- we Play them!" my reaction to the dublin gig was sort of a watered down version of that.... take care, xoxo, marie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+