"Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering" -- Wallace Stevens Jay jaunted off with a, "The color of the leaves is quite nice though. Ms Llew must be very lucky living in the mountians where she can see the display" and he was correct indeed. Each morning I've been absolutely falling in love as I zip around the curvy mountain road I take to work where the trees are all afire and abloom in color. The other day I felt as if I was in a car commercial as I came around a curve to see leaves being whirled around a small car with all the occupants hands out the window trying to catch a stray or two in their hands. If I were to start listening to "Autumn Sweater" on repeat again I'd be in trouble indeed. Until mid-november I have quite a large farm house nestled in the mountains of north carolina all to my lonesome. If anyone is around the Asheville area, drop me a line and maybe I can start a hostile hostel. I wouldn't mind someone to sit out on the front porch and drink hot chocolate with. I want to talk about HALLOWEEN COSTUMES for this holiday has been almost completely skipped over in list discussion this year! Tragedy! Plus, it's a tradition that I post about what I'm going as. Let's see back in 2000 I was reincarnated as Brier Random (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/people/Brier.html). Then in 2001, I spoke in nothing but jaunty couplets ("all the lads I've met in cupid's deadlock have been - shall we say? - born our of wedlock") as Isadora Quagmire (http://www.lemonysnicket.com/tc_isadora.html) and this year it has been a tight contest between going as Amelie dressed up as Zorro (http://www.joannou.net/petullant//amelie33-thumb.jpg) or going as Jayward (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/people/Jay.html) Plus, I have the added trauma of trying to help Flannery decide whether to go as a cat or a powerpuff girl. My favorite new idea of the season: Dress up in blue with clouds pinned on you. When people ask if you're the sky say, "No! I'm cloudy with a chance of showers" as you whip out your hidden water bottles and squirt them. Recently, people have been discussing different cycles on the list of busy and quiet times - ebbs and flows. Remember earlier this month when Maddie was wishing me a happy birthday and talking about buying me presents? - a peak indeed. Or Prissy Chrissy's post about Stuart as a pirate (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200107/msg00012.html) - a zenith. Or Miss Maddie Minx's marvelous meanderings about trying to reconcile actually not still being 16 even though you feel like it (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200203/msg00089.html) or Jay Eckard's eager echoes of southern writers and the south in general (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200206/msg00112.html) or Mandee May's conversation with Kokopelli which went like: Mandee: Kokopelli, what are you all about? Kokopelli: The ladies. Mandee: But I thought you were a mystical figure who ran amok with his pan flute? Kokopelli: Exactly. You don't really think that's a pan flute, do you? Me: Would you be in my band? Kokopelli: Okay. Yes, all climaxes of the list indeed. Sometimes I think about how so many of my favorite people I know because of this list and I don't know whether to thank Honey, or the band, or the fact I went to a strictly religious school where I felt alienated from others who liked the same music or literature I did so I went to a mailing list in order to find someone to relate to in those areas but I do know I'm grateful for the list indeed. I apologize for my sentimentality and promise that next time I shall return to insulting all of you bastards once more. yours, Laura _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband.  Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+