Hellloooo Sinister, I finished reading Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" the other day, at 7 in the morning. It was amazing. I was absolutely reminded of something that Michael Chabon said about Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and Love in the Time of Cholera, "that book almost made it so that I would never have to write again. It was so close to perfect." Or something like that. Oh, but I kid. I had the super-urge to write after seeing Idles' post which featured a mysteriously null-setted section on Cankles, which, yeah, I can totally fill you in on, since you're all probably dying to know: Cankles, according to my younger brother, are a rarely seen phenomenon in certain females. The word cankle comes from combining 'calf' and 'ankle', and the actual physical thing is a similar deal- when a girl's calf muscle looks like it goes straight down into her shoe, then she has cankles. I think it's kind of a pejorative term, as it goes that the more slender-type (or muscular at least) ladies usually have a nice sort of reverse circumflex curve that shows where the calf ends and the ankle begins. Anyway, besides that, I have been lately watching the Homestar Runner cartoons, which are hilarious, and on the same reference-per-frame level as maybe Mystery Science Theater 3000, or even the Simpsons (well, not quite, but they are funny). I'm not sure if many of you have heard of it, but it's gaining a wider following here in the states at least, and, uh, they're just great. (www.homestarrunner.com) I had more (and more interesting) things to say, but I'm at work right now, and I get the creepy feeling sometimes that the office is insulated in some kind of synapse-deadening material. Anyway, hope you're all well, Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+