Okay, Sinister children of the Great Lakes area, as you may (or should by now) know, the First Sinister Great Lakes Picnic is going to happen on September 1st, that's 6 days and counting. Anyways, some good news and some bad news. Good news is I know at least eight or nine of us are going to be there without a doubt, maybe more if they can make it. More good news is that Ribena and Red Bull will be served. Slight bad news, I don't know how many were planning on doing an overnight thing, but I had mentioned that we might make a camp out after the picnic proper to chat and drink and such, camping out is good, especially when drinking, especially as we don't have the good fortune to have public transportation in this country that can carry our liquered up selves home. Sadly, being the Labour Day weekend, most of the campgrounds are either full up or near full up. The only choice for people who'd want to stay and have a drink up would be to get a hotel room and crash on floors (which could be rather cheap if there are several of us, and I'm not at all opposed to sleeping on floors), but I'm not sure what the group thought is. Anyways, let's just keep the mad all-night drink up as a possibility and concentrate on the picnic. I figure we should all meet in South Bend, Indianna at around 1pm - 2pm, some of us are driving a rather long way, so this should give us time to make sure everyone arrives (remember, Labour Day weekend traffic sucks). Directions below provided by a fellow listee: It is called Leeper Park and it is just on the south side of the Saint Joseph river off of Business 31. Take US 31 south and turn right on either Riverside Drive or Park Lane, the first and second rights respectively. At the point where Park Lane deadends into N. Lafayette there is a tennis center and that would be a dandy place to meet up. People could even bring rackets if they fancied a game. Detailed neighborhood map: http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?link=btwn/twn-map_results&zoom_level=10&uid=u7563bubab.9c2lb:2lhrrngz1x&aphoto=0&SNVData=3mad3-h.fy%28w205y8_%29rzldu8%3bah7-%3d%5b2xu6_nlur%5dNDSQJN%2b%13AD%24%2bEB%10VV%2bPMWQ%24%2bK%11%24%2bF%15%28_%3d%3a%10F%3dw20h02_%29rzlqft_1.lq%286,qej%7cynbgmej,fwgf-d.mj72s-%5bub2u%3d2x9w%5dCJDWM%14%2bVBJ%40%2bFXGMP%2bVSRI%40%2bJW%40%2b%11E&pcat=&zlgif.x=1 Map of SB and the I-80/US 31 exchanges could be found by zooming out on this map Please check Yahoo maps or map quest if you have any further questions on how to get there, or contact me and I will relay your questions. Just to make it clear; we will be meeting up at the tennis center in Leeper Park. Look for me, I'll be driving a blue Achieva and wearing an orange Isobel & Fox B&S shirt. 5'7", short spikey hair and an idiot's grin with black rimmed glasses. See a piccy of me (as well as a few from B&S gigs) at: http://photos.yahoo.com/jgilmer2001 I won't be that hard to recognize. Anyone who wants to bring snacks, food, drink, whatever is welcomed and encourage. Musical instruments are also strongly encouraged (and if I could play it worth a damn I'd bring my 12-string) and anything/anyone else you'd like to bring is more than welcome. Any questions, comments, thoughts, spare change, et al, are more than welcome and appreciated. Drop me a line if you can make it or if you have questions. Hope to see you all there (at least all the Great Lakes people) Jim "Being clever's a fine thing, but sometimes a boy just has to get out and meet girls" - Grant Morrison _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+