feeling chirpy, i opened up my pink plastic electronic fortune teller cookie. i asked 'will today be a good day?' and it spelled out 'HOPELESS'. twice. and then i couldn't shut it, so it kept doing more 'answers' - 'CAN'T TELL', 'ASK ME LATER'... i didn't mind. * hello beautiful cherubs just some little words from me because i have that splendid ooh must write to sini feeling, which is a rare bird indeed - the reading i love, but the compulsion to write comes surprisingly like ooh i dunno, fog... *anyway*, rambles aside... i got in early this morning, and so have been able to relish my digest, but the *best* part is that i've got the cd player on my i-mac working, and yesterday i fiiiinallly got my own proper arab strap on cd so now i have everything on the same format (twitchy i know) - and so i snuck it on as soon as i got in and felt just dandy (i'm scared to put my stuff on the office stereo as it's quite loud and am worried everyone willtake the piss :( ) - aaargh! other people have arrived, and put the proper stereo on - my arab strap is now drowned out by horrid kid a!! bumm-er. the ever charming idleberry said: I can't get into chat rooms anymore, including sinister chat, jeepster chat and corduroy smoke chat. Grr. growls and frowns indeed, nor can i , it is rooobish. but then the equally lovely kenneth p chu said 'It would be grate that one day the Queen would say "No, Tony we are not going to rename the Houses of Parlament the Kool House of fun because it's silly" and i laughed out loud. although i was then dogged by thoughts of eviiiiil pat sharp's 'fun house' (use your body and your brain if you wanna play the game). the painting competition is just terribly exciting - and specially cause it's electronic, 'cause that means that unlike Tony Hart's 'The Gallery', we don't have to part with out pics forever. i always wanted to send stuff in, but they would say at the end of the programme 'sorry, we can't return any pictures', and i was devastated at the thought of my best pasta picture being lost foerever. hey, does anyone know where i can get some nice wallpaper for my computer screen? only i don't want sunset beaches or animals in hats etc, just something pleasing and not too distraqcting. (ooh i like that typing). On a final, rather sad note, Edward Gorey has died. He made the Quangle Wangle Quee book, and the Utter Zoo Alphabet, with such lovelies as 'The Wambalus has floppy ears With which to wipe away its tears' and "The Veazy makes a creaking noise It has no dignity or poise.' i really really heartily do recommend a look at http://users.aol.com/emarko/gorey.html and The Gashleycrumb Tinies... i really nearly *promise* you'll love it. t'ra for now a tug on your duffle coat sleeve and lots of love xxsoph * _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+