Hello one and all I've been feeling a bit depressed recently. Or, more correctly, a bit of me has recently been depressed - my cheekbone. There I was, one Saturday night, quietly minding my own business, walking into town for an evening of fun and frolics, when a group of lads took umbrage to something about me (most probably my opposable thumbs) and one of them got me with a right hook. Totally apropos of nothing. Not even a genuine air of hostility or an aura of approaching confrontation. I managed to get away before any more damage was done but the question is this.... Once a c*nt, always a c*nt???? The bloke who hit me couldn't have been more than 18 or 19. Now, when I was a teenager, I was a bit of an arsehole. Nothing violent or thuggish, just generally a bit of a twat (listening to Metallica, laughing at the Mary Whitehouse Experience, that sort of thing). I am now a model citizen - helping old ladies across the road, tut-tutting at kids swearing, that sort of thing. Will my local cheekbone-smasher similarly develop into someone who I could maybe have a quiet pint with someday, or is his path to total moral bankruptcy set in stone? Have any members of the collected Sinister massive left behind a tempestuous youth of badness (genuine badness - violence, criminal acts) and drifted into the lagoon of civil responsibility? If not, is there a case to be made along the lines of "It's obvious who the troublemakers are from an early age, so why don't we just slit their throats when they're 16?". Or is that a bit harsh? In my defence, someone did leave a copy of the Daily Mail on the train this morning and I read it. I feel so unclean. Other news - B+S probably on TopofthePopPickersMate this Friday. Bugger. The one Friday I actually have a social life and will be out of the house (gokarting, if you must know). Also, S Club 7's song is fab. And Steps are releasing a slow song!!!! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. The NME thing - Don't get too worked up about Steven Wells. If I worked on the NME I'd slag off everyone just to annoy people. Especially Primal Scream. But especially those wankers on the Sinister list. FHM 100 fittest women thing - Where on earth is the woman who puts the watch into Watchdog - Charlotte Hudson? (As opposed to Anne Robinson, who contributes the rest of the show's title). Isn't she just totally lovely? For those.....who haven't yet taken heed of all those financial people telling you to build up a nestegg for your retirement and are short of long term investment - get your money on Spain for Euro 2000. I'm rambling again, aren't I? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+