Big Stu thinks that there's hope for him if girls have crushes on Eminem. Is this the same Big Stu I used to know? Have his jungle adventures transformed him from an amiably bumbling fool into a foul-mouthed multiple-personalitied monster? Or is the allure of the 'difficult man' lost on him? I'm not complaining about this. It would be hypocritical of me to complain about women liking bad seeds, as I make a point of only fancying foul-tempered women. Anyway, Eminem's got lovely eyes. I think Carsmile Steve's amianannoyingtweefuckerornot.com has a lot of mileage in it. Perhaps Stuart Mmm would do better there than the paltry 3.8 out of10 he received on amihotornot.com (http://www.amiHOTorNOT.com/r/?eid=KRSQO&key=UEHFF ) . Maybe people thought they were voting for Isobel. As for home education, I'm all for it. But only as a means of filling the gaps in the high school curriculum, where hermeneutics, ancient Greek and advanced calculus are regularly squeezed out in favour of (admittedly important) socialisation and/or peer-group torment. As an American billionaire remarked to me at a recent party, there isn't much in the world that wouldn't be improved by a little more knowledge of calculus. Another guest put the case for 'poetry, music and some laughs', but everyone agreed that it was a weak one. "You see I'm just Marshall Mathers / I'm just a regular guy I don't know why there's all this fuss about me" (Eminem, 'Marshall Mathers') "You think I'm faultless to a 't' / My manner set impeccably / But underneath I am the same as you" (B&S, 'There's Too Much Love') "The dream of all the bowlie kids that hang around here / And I'm no different from the rest" (B&S, 'The Model') Stuart and Marshall seem to be going through similar crises these days. Famous people - moan, moan, moan. N. x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+