Yes, it's been a long time, but it's time to go. As I'm moving I'll be email-less and listless for a while so I've decided to unsubscribe. I love this list, the people on it are all so lovely and entertaining, even though some of you don't post half as much as you should. You know who you are. Actually, it's not so emotional. I'll probably reappear in a few months, I don't know. I just thought it'd be rude to leave without saying goodbye. David mentioned his favourite sunset a while ago, and so did PeetSketch Steve. They were both city sunsets and they reminded me of an incredible view I saw in, of all places, Birmingham a fortnight ago. When you leave New Street station the first thing you see are six or seven tall black cranes that descend from the sky and root themselves behind a blue plywood screen. This is the site of the old Bull Ring, quite an extraordinary place in itself, which has been demolished - ripped apart by those cranes - to make way for the city's brave cosmic Future. Only a concrete crater remains. There used to be a route through the Bull ring to the market but now a makeshift bridge crosses from one side of the crater to the other, between the cranes, and the folk of Birmingham sit on it, in their wheelchairs and tracksuits, looking through the wire mesh at the metal and plastic bursting out of the ground. It'll be gone soon, filled in and replaced by a "new opportunity", so catch it while you can. In Birmingham I'm always accosted by Scientologists who try to brainwash me. They ask me to come to a room for a questionnaire. Has anyone ever done this? I'd like to say yes sometime but I'm worried I might become BRAINWASHED, and ONE OF THEM. In the library I was reading a book and a woman sat beside me with a carrier bag. Out of it she pulled a pack of Wagon Wheels and began chomping on them. Whenever I glared she smiled at me and sat back, her stomach bulging and her fat legs either side of the table legs. I couldn't read my book anymore so I left. It was horrible. Typically content-less. Bye, then. Hope I see you again. Robin xx _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+