hey cardie-folk, Been laid low with the virus again. Cant tell if it's the old one, or a new one, or just a bunch of them having a party in my lungs. The guy's in the next room are watching wrestling, and Wheat just doesnt seem to be drowning them out. Maybe I should upgrade to songs;ohia... Saw this website today (I'm ill, mike's at work, what else is there to do..?) called Random Acts Of Kindness. I dont know if all the beechams is making me cynical, but it struck me as a pile of tree-hugging, crystal-wearing, feng-shui nonsense. They had these little cards that you were supposed to give to everyone you did a nice thing for telling them to do something for someone else. That struck me as... I dont know, crude or something. That's a conditional act of kindness, not spontaneous or because it was needed, just making up the numbers. It misses the whole damned point! (jules starts to hyperventilate) If someone did a nice thing for you, and then gave you a card saying do something for someone else, then thats a whole obligation to fill, unless you resent the assumption and dont bother, but then you feel like you have to be kind to someone, and grab the first chance you see, and then the whole damn thing is wasted! The site said stuff like if you're in a bakery, buy a pastrie for the person behind you, and give them a card with it. Surely it'd be a more useful act to buy a tea and a sandwich for the guy stood across the street selling the big issue, or asking for change, or buy some food and put it in those charity bins at the supermarket... Am I making any sense here, or just displaying indie snobbery?! I dont know, either way, I still think that Joanna giving change to that guy on the bus is worth a damn sight more than buying a cake for someone who can afford cake if he's in a bakery already. So I need a new name for my haphazard form of world-improvement. I cant think of anything tho. any idea's, or has Jules lost the plot (again) so anyway, If anyone wants their world brightened, check out the new Bob the Builder website www.bobthebuilder.org , and play pilchard mayhem- it's the cutest thing since sainsbury's started making Mt Men cookies! My rant over, I am going to have a cup of tea, and tell mikey i love him. jules _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+