I think we can safely say that the Great Lakes Picnic was a success. It was a great time and the best part was meeting some very cool people. Massive props go to Colin and his non-Sinister friends who made the drive all the way up from Kentucy to meet up with us. Also in attendence were the dynamic duo of Shawn and Emily, as well as the well-known Kirsten Kenyon, and of course the real brains behind the picnic and navigator extrodinaire Amy Bancroft, who desrves a special award for not tossing me out of the car for mangling Belle and Sebastian tunes on the ride back to Michigan. For those of you who didn't come you missed good food, ribena, Red bull & vokda, roasting marshmellows, a bonfire, the joys of running into barb wire in the dark, the sinister squaredance, and many other things that I'm far too tired to remember. Dancing was attempted but resulted in a near concussion for the two sinister peeps involved. Many thanks to Colin and company for inviting us all back to their campsite for drinking and bonfire fun, and for bringing vodka to go along with the Red Bull I brought. Hopefully everyone woke up this morning feeling refreshed and clearheaded, if so you're a bit farther ahead than I was. Anyways, a brilliant time was had by all, and many thanks to everyone involved, we'll have to do it again sometime. Next time I think I'll be a bit more careful of the barbed wire :) Jim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+