Hello? Mmm, yes it's me again. Today I went into town and appeared to have developed *the mysterious stare of the hex*, as everyone I looked at seemed to fall over, or hit their boyfriend, or have a spastic fit. Oh dear. Just when things are going okay, I'm bestowed with a gift from the devil. Just my luck. Whilst looking for Christmas presents and buying NONE I decided that this season of goodwill I would give myself to the world of literature - you know, books - and so I bought a copy of Father Brown Investigates. I averted my eyes from the bookseller as I did this, just in case. He'd never suspect my affliction if I just keep my head down and hand him a book about a Catholic priest, I thought. Last night I was entertained by Lionel Blair with his devouring smile and Linda Lusardi with her doubly devouring thighs at the city pantomime. The place was full of fat mums, purple-rinsed grandmas and spoilt kids, all joined together in the festive spirit of laughing at a man in drag and seven tiny little men. They were very small - I suppose that's why they provided binoculars. Tiny, little, men. Seven of them. Dick Whittington it was, I think. Lionel Blair reminds me a bit of Lenny The Lion with his luxurious, ever so manly mane. If only Lenny could tap dance, maybe he'd still have a career. I was discussing the Willenium yesterday with my mate and he said that if someone knocked on his door on New Years Eve dressed in a beard and sandals, like Jesus, he'd go bonkers. I think I would too. So I've decided, that for the Willenium, instead of going to some crazy party, I'm going to dress up in a beard, sandals and a comfortable pair of pants, tie my feet to a couple of barrels and float down the Thames, as if I was "walking on water", singing songs from "Jesus Christ Superstar". I wonder what would happen. On the B+S website they mention that they've recorded "over twenty" songs for the new album but don't know which ones to put on it yet. Sounds to me like they need a helping hand with deciding. I vote for a Pokemon-style face-off between the band members to sort things out. Imagine Pikachu Murdoch with special triangular face power versus Jigglytuff Campbell with plastic mac power. robinxxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+