Despite my attempts to unsubscribe with this email addy, it seems sinister is having none of it. So let that be a message of fate, divine intervention, or whatever. I've not posted for a while, and I felt inclined. I, like so many have already mentioned (featherboa and Mark Casarotto spring readily to mind, like Zebadee in the Magic Roundabout) have been devoting my ego to the massagings of a blog. Initially, I thought blogs were a waste of space and time. I remember reading in some HTML for Dummies book, that really, content was always important. It mentioned something about diaries, and how only really, your mum would want to read about how crap you felt cos you had a cold, etc. That was offputting. Then I decided I wanted to be one of those who could gratiously go on about themselves for days on end, and have people read it. As someone who can go on about herself for days on end, it seemed the perfect medium in which to conduct my self-centred written ego-wanking, and enjoy the idea of it being watched by tens of people. So it came to be. I have a blog. I write on it. And now, what use does sinister serve me? It states firmly, in the Rules That Must Be Obeyed, something about not writing dear diary style entries. Of course, I ignored that, and did it anyway. Now I have a diary/ blog in which I can do these things purposefully. So by the time it gets to sinister, I'm all me-me-me'd out. It doesn't mean I don't read sinister. Oh, I do, I do. I read it during my lunch break. And with two email addys receiving it (I tried to get this one stopped - it didn't happen. I can't be arsed unsubscribing again, and I dunno which one I don't want getting your posts)I hve ample chance to read. I also play a sad game of matching up stats random phrases from #sinister. http://honey.crockery.org/auntwendy/stats.html Me and another sinisterian do this via email. Each quote, for those of you who don't know, is random. We make up little conversations, matching random quotes that could work together. Below are examples. hobnob "i just want to ogle nicole kidman's weird fake nose" kirsten "her nose looks like it's caved in" ree "and in interviews she's dumb as rocks" GayJay "I want to be a fundamentalist Televangelist sometimes." Pythia "believe me, it's too cold." millkmaid "i wish i could suddenly kiss boys" worktails "feel free to start tying me to the furniture too... ;-)" retro^sec "are you planning any gigs soon?" municipal "aye, Sunderland (wherever that is)" RealOuch "i have to fork out �700 on the 31st" phatlip "for stainless steel, it's pretty fucking pricey" Its a sad game, but what else am I meant to do in my lunch, after I've read my horoscope and the letters page in the Metro, and scowered the bbc website for anything interesting, eaten my sandwiches, sipped my diet coke*, eaten my apple and checked the b+s site for new diary entries and read some of the latest sinster posts? I've got an age-long half hour to kill, after all. I didn't hear the B+S song on the John Peel thing last night. Forgive me mummy, for I have sinned. I was out drinking instead. There was a photo in the Sunday Times last week, of protesters at Loch Long. It seemed to coincide with a certain diary of a certain pop-star in a certain band that a certain mailing list is sort of about. Ok. Enough. I'm just getting back into the swing of posting now, and I need to take it easy til I'm up o speed on postability. Love idles * occasionally its full-fat coke, when I've got PMT, need a sugar boost, or am having a shitty day at work. ps. blog is http://www.retrosec.blogspot.com end of advert and list abuse. ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.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 +-+ +-+ "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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+