Robin's syntax for sarcasm is best: more economical than mine (2 symbols as opposed to 3) but unambiguous. I will adopt the further convention that sentence-initial tilde has scope over the entire sentence. Yesterday I went to watch my sister try on bridal gowns. It was lots of fun! Now I know the origin of 'bustle' as a verb - the movement in a certain part of a gown as the bride makes haste ... I get to do it cos I'm gonna be the bridesmaid, do the bustle that is. I get to wear a real dress. It's gonna be a sheath - gunmetal grey satiny material with an interesting foldover thing at the neckline, granted - not a very good description. There was a depressing part, too - when my sister talked about how much weight she wanted to lose in front of the girl who was helping us who was so nice who was so obviously heavier than she. The girl was beautiful though, auburn hair and greenish grey eyes and a really sweet demeanor and her eye makeup was expertly applied - I've never seen anything like it - could be out of Seventeen - or even from the back of the applicators - a perfect angle from the corner of the eye - grey eyeshadow. I watched Henry Fool today on video. Hal Hartley has improved tremendously as a director. At university, I watched one of his films (the one about the professor who has a brief affair with a student; Flirt which is more recent is also better than this; find it intriguing that he has a japanese girlfriend, partner, whatever - intriguing mostly cos he has to order two caterers according to the credits) and it was all wrong - a mistake - and though there were redeeming parts, i.e. the homeless woman - some parts were just hard to take, i.e. when they break out in a song and dance routine (someone complained about the Simpsons on the same lines). But Henry Fool is great! The film critics on the list - do they take Hal Hartley seriously? Read the beginning of Soft Touch at the bookstore but was distracted by the accent and couldn't finish. Didn't really want to. I make the mistake of equating Stuart with every male character (sometimes even female) that he sings about. And who can match his sensibility? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+