There's indirect B&S content towards the end, so hang in there! On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Simon Warner wrote:

Hello there! I'm one of those newbie nursery people who've broken loose... I'm nursing a Paula Cullen Booze Explosion "amps-turned-up-to-11" hangover today, so it'll be (relatively) painless...

Imagine a job where you have nothing to do all day except for listen to CDs and muck around with E-mails and the 'net, as I believe the kids are calling it these days... Imagined? Good - that's what I do. 9-5. 'Tsa tough life. What I'm actually supposed to being at work is far too boring to talk about on this big chatty-room thing, though. Just trying to let you know that if you write an E-mail and you think "God that's crap, everyone'll be so bored they won't read anything I'll do ever again", fret not, 'cos, hey, I care :)

Hey, that sounds like every day for me! :) I'm here at work 9-5 daily, reading and writing emails, and once in a while getting some work done. It was a LOT worse last year though when I worked at a different company. My supervisor gave me barely ANYTHING to do and I just sat around surfing the 'net and whatnot. I'd tell my friends this and they'd think I was the luckiest guy in the world, but NO it is utterly boring. It's a lot more fun if they give you interesting work. And you get guiltly once in a while for doing absolutely nothing all day and getting paid...

The last two weeks of silence have been great not only 'cos you didn't have to put up with me, but because just sitting here reading all the E-mails has led me to the Buena Vista Social Club - good recommendation, whoever that was. So, here's a book mention... Try "The Diving Bell & Butterfly" - if you don't have great patience for reading, it's not very long, due to the fact it was dictated using only the blinking of one eye. Which is pretty fantastic in itself, but the book's even better. It's not small enough for the tube, alas...

I haven't read that, but this gives me a chance to plug one of my faves... Has anyone read "The Happy Mutant Handbook"? It's a must for those culture-jamming/subvert-the-dominant-paradigm/do-it-yourself/fuck-the-system types. :) It's a great collection of mind-blowing articles from the zine bOING bOING (which I have never read, but will name-drop nonetheless). If anybody is bored at work, you are welcome to check out a comic strip I do for my uni. It's at the following address: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Chateau/9889/ And there is B&S content. If you click on the sketch of Judy (of the Dream of Horses variety) you will be sent to the B&S website. So you don't even NEED a bookmark for the B&S site, just bookmark mine! :) And look for the cleverly hidden B&S references in the strip. (No one has yet mentioned them to me at my uni.) And one final thing. Does anyone here listen to April March? I picked up her new CD last week and think it's great! It was a tad too tw** at first, but soon started to grow on me. ciao! Allen (ICQ: #35152981) -- "Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile Till your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle." -- Song to the Siren, Tim Buckley. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+