Q: Where have you been? A: Wandering the halls Michener Library, looking for a boy named Douglas who has a high-speed internet connection... but everytime I open the door to his office he isn't there. But his jacket is, propped upright into the shape of a person and stuffed with a few brightly-colored hankerchiefs. I usually end up rummaging through his desk drawer and find condoms and cigarettes and scribbled notes from absent students: "I came down with shingles."; "I had a familiar emergency"; "There's something wrong with my lexicon". Other similar excuses along those lines, sometimes even quickly-drawn illustrations of the problem--for instance, the girl with shingles drew a messily pegged torso dotted with inklets of red: what I took to be a pictorial representation of the shingles themselves. Q: When did the problem arise? A: When I noticed that every one of my CD cases was missing the actual CD. Q: Who do you miss most? A: The usual bunch. A lot of initials composed of K's, R's, S's and L's. Q: Are the rumors true? A: No. Absolutely not. Q: When are you going to get it together? A: Once I figure out where I left off. Then, after I figure the starting point, I will do a series of difficult math equations--FOILing out the algebra, doing synthetic division--hopefully it will all come out to an equation with a few plus signs that can finally make some reiterated sense. Q: What happened in the channel? A: Oh, nothing.. Q: Give us your top ten reasons: A: 1. Life ends in a big sigh. 2. The necessities of life include a few mice drunk from fetal alcohol experiments, two unopened boxes of some crunchy and tasty, yet very nutritious cereal, and my dog, who is dying. 3. Photojenny--what was Stevie thinking(Hushed: "I dooon't know)? 4. I bought Nintendo's THE GLOVE. I wear it to dance clubs and do the baggly bagg, which is a dance intended to be performed along to Blackstreet's "Yo Diggity". 5. I finally ran into Douglas 6. I was making a compilation tape 7. School is littering the countertops 8. The Pinefox 9. Gnostical Turpitude 10. For once in my life--oh god--just get it together. Q: For what reasons? A: I've just lost my bookmark is all. This is open for interpretation. On one hand, a story of mine is being published in a journal called 3rd bed. http://www.3rdbed.com It's hard for me to phantom this. Mandee. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+