cripes. my kitchen is a terrible mess. therefore it is summer. dudes and dudettes, i was all set to tackle the t-shirt idea and fiona beat me to it, but it wasn't a race anyway and all t-shirt-related talk is good talk. i like the idea of having "sinister" on the front and "it's where we live" on the back (good on ya, jason, except for the bunnies business maybe. unless they are line drawings, which are neat, but also might look scary. and scary bunnies are bloody awful. oh god, i just had a flashback of the flaming lips concert, people in bunny suits... scary. ag. okay, it's okay. irrational phobia of people dressed up in big sweaty animal suits subsiding...) still more on t-shirts: i was going to go all kado style and write "sinister", etc. in magic marker, but i'm thinking it would be good to do it t-shirt transfer style, like put a graphic on the site so we can download it and print it off. alas, i'm no graphic artist. ideas and more ideas though. also, it would be cool too b/c even though the graphic would be low-resolution that in itself would reflect our Internet Presence. yar. and we could put it on any colour/style t-shirt then and not have to worry about too big/too small/too expensive/etc. f-u-n! also cool would be to just diy it and we would all have t-shirts saying roughly the same thing but in different fonts and styles. similar to all having picnics on the same day in different cities. yes, i am one with sinister: if it isn't raining i am having a picnic here in vancouver and all are welcome. except if you are dressed in a bunny suit. it will be in queen elizabeth park on saturday around 2. there will be a ghettoblaster blasting belle and sebastian and magnetic fields and arling&cameron and other good summer sounds. there will be picnic-related activites. in all reality, it'll be me with some cheese and a bottle of wine, but have no fear, submit to the picnic, climb the hill, submiiiit... alasdair "permanently sweaty and fact-based" cook said: many entertaining & useful things, among them: "What people used to eat." which sent my mind reeling into, like, the war of 1812 for some reason... also interesting to hear from c heil that "she's losing it" played on dateline nbc during a show on eating disorders. wha? uh. er. i'd love to meet the intern who (obviously) put forth that idea - "i've got the perfect song! no, really guys, listen, it's about this girl who's dealing with all this stuff and it's like, overwhelming, and..." them: "does it have a reference to bulemia?" do-gooder: "er, well..." thank you, barbara walters. well, anyway. harry hunt saddened me a bit with his inability-to-appreciate-beauty talk. but that will change - lethargy isn't really all that fundamental anyway. i mean look at fundamental christians - most of them snap out of it once they hit 18. this is *quite* fact-based. ahem. i mean, amen. er. but yeah, the response to beauty does not always have to be awe or gasping or wowing or running off and writing a poem about it. i mean, a lot of people wouldn't even notice the cherry blossoms - the observation itself is kind of an acknowledgement of beauty, whatever beauty is. the observation is emotional movement. i guess it's sad b/c of the mention of pointlessness and feeling that one can't do anything despite having lots of ideas. it's a bloody rough struggle to do things with ideas much of the time. but in many ways, it's sadder/more frustrating to not express these ideas. i guess it's about taking some kind of action, figuring that out like you might a math problem or a puzzle. also, if you've got a good idea, you have to get up the guts and share it (i'm also saying this to myself too, of course, being a person who tends to run off and write down pieces of poems that never get finished and should. blarg. ar. etc.) and argh, please, until june 5/6, no more blow-by-blow (especially negative) reviews of "fold your hands child..." b/c it's hard to take. (also, kind of an indication of not reading the list as i remember this being discussed not long ago.) well, maybe jarrod was joking. i don't know. but there's a line btwn discussing something and critiquing or reviewing something and sinister is more of a discussing place. i reckon. here is my point: t-shirts! deconstruct as you will. back to the neurosis, the 9-5, the sleep deprivation, lurve Robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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