Hi All, I don't post much and I've been so behind in reading the list ever since I went on vacation, so if you recently found yourself inexplicably writhing around in pain, that was me deleting you unread and I sincerely apologize. Now would be an opportune time to exact your revenge. I wanted to give my impressions of our little LA meetup and to thank everyone for such a lovely time. I saw Sara Bus Stoppers waiting and didn't know who she was, but I had a hunch she might be one of us. It was so funny when this old man walked right over to where she was sitting gave her a creepy smile and spread his left-over rice on the ground right beside her for the pigeons. Within seconds Sara was swarmed by the flying rats. Did she get up and move? Did she curse the old man out? No. She breaks into the most heartwarming rendition of "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins, I've ever heard in my life. BenApps and Rachel showed up a little later. Not only did they organize the shindig, but brought along all sorts of goodies for us to eat, drink and play with. Ben brought his cool homemade Star Wars chess set and tried to get me to play him. I figure homemade chess set=skills, and I could tell he had me pegged for a well-oiled rube, which I'm not, and I politely declined. I don't recall exactly why it was you guys kicked him out of your country, but he's more than welcome in the US, in fact he's just the man we were looking for to tip the scales in our favor. He and Rachel make the sweetest couple and even though she wasn't feeling very well, she still managed a good number of wise-cracks at Ben's expense and he loved it. Ernie arrived a little after everyone else, totally trying to capture that "new boy" mystique, which I think he did quite nicely. His knowledge of indy and twee music is very impressive, and I found myself nodding "yes" more than once to questions I didn't know the answer to, to avoid exposure as the fraud I am. I hijacked the gathering to go to that Galaxy socccer game, so I wouldn't have to go alone and everyone was so cool about it. I owe everyone for being such good sports and at the next gathering I'll keep my mouth shut and go along with whatever the group wants to do....so long as it involves Go-Karts:) We stopped off at my apartment (BTW, total class act that none of you guys have referred to it as a shithole) I showed off my cats and Rachel kept saying that one of them looked like Heather Graham. I don't see it at all (the pink nose maybe?) but I've gotten so much mileage out of that remark and still laugh everytime I think about it. Sara alluded to "broken toilets" in her post and I felt I should explain. She didn't actually break my toilet. On Friday the little plastic lever inside the tank had cracked and would no longer pull the plunger up enough to allow water in. To flush the toilet you had to reach inside the tank and lift the lever (which I showed her how to do). When she went to do this, the plastic lever snapped off, breaking my toilet and rendering it unusable....huh once it's all laid out like that it does kind of seem like....I don't want to get into the blame game. After trashing my place, we all headed out to the LA Galaxy soccer game. Ernie was very quiet about going to the game, so I didn't think he was all that into it but once we'd sat down he was all, Galaxy this, past statistics that. We started calling him Erncyclopedia after that (we didn't, but we should have if only to make my account more accurate). I had a great time. The game was a blast, but really making nice new friends was the best part of the day. I wish we all lived together in the same complex. Like Melrose Place, only less backstabby. Sara said:

p.s...i think i got flipped off while i was driving home from the game....adrian, i think i saw that!

Hee:) I was waving bye. Perhaps another driver? and please tell me that was a formula one car. Later, Glurp PS. A loooooong time ago I crushed someone named M.E. (Mary Beth) Curtin. I don't know if she's still on the list. I recall she posted a few months ago mentioning how little an impact she felt she'd made on the list and I meant to write her then to say "no no I love your posts", but never did. Believe me you're not missing anything by not having me as a pen pal just ask Jeanette Eastwood (thanks for the postcard sweetie:) I just thought I should come clean about the crush. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+