Hello there. I didn't realise there was a new B&S single out this week either. Bah. Clearly I haven't been paying attention very well; I only noticed when, catching up with my email, I read this week's Popbitch, and saw it's expected to go into the top 20 here in Britain. My favourite thing about TLP has to be the deluxe binding. I don't want to put it alongside all my other CDs; it looks like it belongs on a bookshelf alongside The Gashlycrumb Tinies or something similar. I was intrigued, though, as to why the Scottish Railway Preservation Society and the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway (which are one and the same for most purposes) are mentioned in the acknowledgements. I used to work there, but even so it took me ages to work out that one of the booklet photos is the interior of an old British Rail carriage; and the others do look rather like they could be Birkhill railway station. Must Try Harder in future. I was rather shocked to see that Astrid has moved to Beverley. I used to look forward to her regular posts describing her exciting Swedish life, so it's hard to imagine that she's now only a few miles from here. Astrid, if you're reading: I'm in Grimsby, just over the river. If you had asked me to name an English place that foreign people are likely to want to move to, I have to admit that Beverley wouldn't have been an obvious choice. Only yesterday, I was thinking about Sinister picnics. The reason being, I went off to meet people from another internet place for the very first time yesterday. And, I've been to meetups for things many times before - before I was on Sinister, even, I went to annual meetups of a Usenet group I posted to - but I'm still always nervous when it comes to meeting new people. "Don't worry," said one of these people yesterday, "we don't bite." "Unless," said someone else, "you ask nicely! Ahahahahahaa!" Their Evil Villain training course was coming on nicely, I believe. These other people call their meetups munches, rather than picnics, even though they amount to more or less the same thing. It's traditional, apparently. Anyway, that's enough rambling from me - one post to Sinister every six months is *quite* enough. I'm off to take decongestants and maybe go buy that single. CD *and* vinyl - I might not be a big enough fan to know when the record is coming out, but I'm a big enough geek to buy two formats of the same thing. xx FP -- http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+