"oh, just fine, if you happen to like being me which, personally i don't." great big hello to everyone out there. this is my first post, please be gentle. i did my nursery time and also a little extra, self-imposed nursery time because generally i agree with whoever else it was that said something about life being a spectator sport. i really enjoy watching people, and you're all 'specially pretty ones at that. i'm a poetry student in the windy city -- home of poetry magazine, the lincoln park conservatory, and more polish people than any other city in the world, with the minor exception of warsaw (which is unfair since warsaw has the head start of actualy being IN poland). i read and write poems, but prefer reading. this is an invitation, incidentally, for you all to try out your latest verse on me. (i'm honest, but i'm also very nice.) i'm not polish myself, though i spent three months in poland this last summer, right before i braved a ridiculous-long bus ride to london so that i could ride a train out to scarborough to see the belle and sebastian show at the futurist theatre. if anyone on this list was there, i was the american boy by himself up in the balcony who was trying not to speak after some girl from california embarassed herself and the people next to him began making nasty commments about americans, for fear of having his accent recognized. teehee. that was the only time i've ever seen b&s, and i was thousands of miles away from anyone i know -- i've never been so alone or so happy in all my life. i think charles simic is the greatest. i like kraft macaroni and cheese and the clearance rack at the gap. i dress so that i am invisible in crowds of people. i have only fainted once in my life. i used to live in new orleans -- and this brings me to something substantial: is anyone in the list going to be in new orleans for mardi gras? i have friends who are going and would love to see my old home again. however i don't know if they are the sort of friends i want to be in the middle of mardi gras with all by my lonesome; i am certainly a troublemaker, but i am not THAT kind of troublemaker. i shan't ramble on any farther. good nite for everyone. baker,baker __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+