I wonder if it's a compromise of security that most of my internet passwords are various amalgams of phrases I think I've heard in "A Century of Elvis..." Though I think they would be nearly impossible to for a hacker to deduce, as I have heard almost complete nonsense across the board in that song (until, of course, I found the lyrics, as one is wont to do when they look for things like lyrics to a song). A LURKER POSTING ... Which is a lot like A Summer Wasting, only without the Summer and the Wasting parts, but more with the lurker and the posting instead. Hello, regular posters. I tend to not be one of you. But I am noticing two things (I say as if I think others have no noticed, but to think that would be to prove myself an idiot): #1. There are a lot of new posters on here. And #2. Where is everyone on the eastern U.S. coast who is NOT in New York? Not to exclude the New England crowd, but we already know where you are and you get to have picknicks. Those extra K's look absolutely ridiculous. I WANT PICNICS INSTEAD OF EXTRA Ks Not to break the train of thought from the last paragraph (but aren't these so much more fun to read when they're broken apart, like when Mom used to cut your hot dog so you could eat it with your fingers?)... but here's the thing about me and this post -- It is a cry for help. Not the 12-step kind or even the 3-step kind or even the screw-it-and-pick-up-another-bottle-of-Southern-Comfort kind of help, but the "If you are a Sinisteree on the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard of the U.S., put your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" kind of help. But without the waving of the hands and more of the typing-a-post-to-Sinister. LOOK, ANOTHER POINTLESS SUBHEADER Basically, I'm in the DC/Baltimore Metro area and with this whole get-together craze sweeping the list in places like Elsewhere-But-Here, I feel left out of the fun. And since I am not one to invite myself to far-away places not because of antisocial tendencies but more because I have no money, then I'm going to have to create the fun here. Anyone else interested? Feel free to respond with gathering locale suggestions or just a response to my call for a head count; if you want to email me directly, go right ahead, but please include "Sinister" in the subject line or I'll delete you immediately (nothing personal, of course, but those pesky porn emails are really beginning to chafe...). Well that was a poor choice of words... IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF A CENTURY OF LURKERS ... And back I go to the lurking. I've been doing it for nearly three years here... feels like home. :) Thanks for letting me ramble a bit. Also... more thanks. ~ Kim _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+