Hello, sinister. I'm not a fan of summer. It's too hot and sweaty. I prefer autumn, when I can snuggle up inside under my quilt, against the rain and the wet leaves. Can't we just get this season over with?# Of course, *soon* this city will be full of tourists. Fuller, I mean. It's *always* full of tourists, but in summer you always get all the arty, English ones. At the moment, it's just full of French school parties. They wear denim and crowd me off pavements. I keep looking round the city to see if I can see anyone else who looks like a Sinister person, though. Normally I don't manage, even though I *know* that several other listees live and work here. I did see a B&S fan in the supermarket today, though. The weather has been hot and foggy, which is just horrible. At least if it's summer, can't we have lots of nice fresh thunderstorms? Yes, I know. No content. I was thinking: we've just had that lovely UK tour! And it's all over. Well, for me it was over ages ago after the final Glasgow gig---well, it *seems* like ages---so it must be time to get back to long, rambling, content-free posts again, mustn't it? Incidentally, the Sinister website now has pictures of *everyone's* favourite listee, the furry and honey-coloured Belle. She really should have her own email address, so we can all send her our crush votes. We did have a thunderstorm the other week, I admit. I was woken, terrified, in the middle of the night by it. The cat was unmoved. He sleeps on my feet. I was getting my groceries, just coming through the fruit and veg section, when I saw a woman walking the other day. Uhuh. Something's niggling at me. What is it? She's got a badge on! A B&S website/underground badge, as sold at all the best UK tour venues. As did I, in fact. I tried to walk back and forth in front of her a few times, to see if there would be any flicker of a notice, if she spotted my matching one. I don't think so. She pushed her basket towards the checkout with her toe. Why can't we have hot, dry, blue-skys summer days? That's the sort I hope we have for our forthcoming PICNIC which everyone is invited to. If you can't make it to south-east Scotland for July 28th, you'll just feel left out. You know you will. Yes, everyone on the list is invited, even if you're just a lurker. Even if you were in the Sainsburys at Meadowbank this afternoon. See, I had to put another picnic plug in there. Sorry, everyone. I would pray for nice weather, but god thinks i'm an abomination or something. I looked it up. see some of you there, i hope love xx gneissy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+