i now know rather more about DDR than i want to... thanks mainly to the, erm, expressive photos david moore sent me. martin wrote: "Unfortunately, I believe that there are photos in existence of me doing this so called "DDRing" which much like Geri Halliwell's ballet dancing in her new video involves the photography trickery of superimposing my head on an admittedly very talented droopy arsed dancer. Much like the Geri video, I recommend you avoid these photos." sorry martin, too late. a hahahahahahahahahaha aha ha ha ah ha. (by the way, i've decided that we should raise the booze funds for the london picnic by putting david and sally on 'who wants to be a millionaire: couples'.) i for one am glad the picnic will be on primrose hill, because a) after the last greenwich picnic i was waiting for a train for a hour at maze hill station at 6am on sunday morning and it wasn't an experience i fancy repeating, and b) primrose hill is a fertility site. i don't have mark's football, but have just remembered that i did acquire someone's frisbee last year, which i'll obviously bring along and pass down the sinister chain of sports equipment larceny. enough parochialism... my friend clare, who introduced me to b&s may moons ago, has just passed on the judgement of another friend of hers, coming late to the twee party: "they may actually have meaning but sound like every other group of tossers trying to be fey and interesting". i would like to think he's wrong. in a related story, i don't want to offend stuart david, but the peacock @ borders idea was the most ill-conceived, badly executed, generally embarrassing promotional event i've ever not spent money on. even if we did get free beer. oh, looks like i do want to offend him after all. sorry. now, it's been a harrowing weekend, so i'm going to stem the flow of superfluous witticism with the band-aid of necessity and ring my mummy (the non-sinister one.) luv archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+