If I was doing this properly I should be in bed just now, but I decided to post on a Monday morning solely because I can. You know, it's one of the great joys of unemployment (along with insomnia, soul-destroying boredom and general loss of self-respect) to be able to relax on a Sunday evening and not have that sickening 'shit, work/school/college/prison tomorrow' feeling. I mean, 'Songs of Praise' has never been so good... It's also quite fun to go into town of an afternoon, just to snigger at the office workers quickly munching down their sandwiches before heading back for four hours of drudgery. Because, of course, I do all sorts of exciting things instead, like, uh, wandering aimlessly. And they have money and I don't and I really feel like getting drunk without feeling guilty. For all you sexy Edinburgh Festival goers, future B+S illustrator and sometime novelist and artist Alasdair Gray will be appearing (in a puff of smoke, one would hope) at the book festival in Charlotte Square on Friday (25th) at 2.30pm to talk about his Book of Prefaces. You really should go, cause he's great fun. I went to see Edwin Morgan reading poetry there last week, just to pretend that I'm cultured and intelligent and stuff. And a reminder that the luverly Neil Ashford will be playing his haunting acoustic tunes at the Tron on Thursday at 7.30pm, which you really should go to too. Rod Stewart was always a twat in my book. I'm far too young to remember, but wasn't he a sorta Oasis of the early seventies? What a terrible thought. And all that 'cor blimey, me old mate, I'm Scotland's biggest fan'. 'Every beat of my heart', my arse! Mind you, he'd probably get a game these days... Some people (Americans, one would imagine) have been talking about elections. Being something of an ignorant sort, all I know about US politics is that the Republicans are evil and are represented by an elephant and the Demycrats are useless and have a thing about donkeys, although this is something my mum told me and I'm not sure whether to believe her. Do people vote solely on the basis of their preferred animal? Cause if they did you'd think they'd go for more dynamic or even cute animals. I think Tony Blair should adopt of fluffly little kitten for the Labour party over here - it'd be bound to pull the votes. Anyways, another fun filled day beckons, with all those troubling dillemmas, like 'go out or stay in?'. Gosh, it's not half exciting! luv and kisses ian n ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+