Hello It's been a weird week. Most of it off work.. after all the excitement seeing my famous scottish writer I had a near nervous collapse in the Georgian basement room I share with my boss and several empty workstations the following day (a hangover) and had to be laid to rest back home in me jim jams. However, birthday approaching I decided to make the best of the gloom and get drunk everyday, as soon as I got the wits to get dressed and stagger down to 'the village'. Yeah, like Brier's Bukowsi quote. DON'T READ BUKOWSKI! bad influence So, mostly I did that, ranted and raved incoherently as per usual for hours on end in #sinister with lots of charming, intriguing and really very smutty indeed people. Othertimes, I'd even manage to be almost nice (by shutting up for a bit... in fact, my hands were beginning to shake and my back was being glanced at by several members of the paranoia family. Things returned to normality this morning with lisa morrison's charming post... after a night whose sole item of sleep comprised making up doowop harmonies with a bunch of little gherkin like people, some auditory hallucinations provided by mine own ears, and someone with a mask on and a pistol with a pickled newt in the barrel (don't ask.. erm). So, a really great and enjoyably sober day back at work. I laughed as the handbreak came away in my hands and I stepped into the cold vapours of the wee office car park to lug some horribly heavy spare pre-cast concrete blocks to choc up the tyres. My sweet boss's wife said I should have let the car roll down on in and smash the old wooden gateways so then we could've all claimed on insurance. All's well that ends well Fish fingers and chips! Yeay. Gordon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+