its funny that everyone is leaving. i totally agre with everything that has been said regarding the state of sinister. i do love stream of conciousness, ramblings...god knows i have posted enough of them over the course of my time here....it just seems as though thats all that is EVER on the list now. it seems that in the past few months the only thing considered off topic on the list is belle and sebastian. it is not neccessarily the volume of posts, but it is the length of them. i have some really great friends that i have made on this list as a direct result of them posting about extremely personal things....but cant we talk about more than extremely personal things. what happened to the days of ol', talking about music,films, and when we got really crazy...we even mentioned B&S!!!! i dunno. i love you all to pieces but perhaps we need to reevaluate the list content a bit. perhaps we can have diary entries and something with more room for responose, debate, other people's ideas and perspective. i dunno. i havent read all of the posts on the list for months now...i have my favourites that i always keep tabs on....it just gets tooooo bloody long!. love to you all ~~stine

Dear Sinister,

I'll be frank, my dears... When P. Carter says "it's not you it's me" I have to agree with his reasoning, but you have changed my lovely sinister. Less general banter, open comment about spreadables and the like, and it does all merge into the same thing. If someone tells me about their life story, or their failing romance, well, what can I say? "I'm sorry for you" or "me too"? It just isn't open to comment, really. We all have problems. At the end of the day this is not a councillor's help/sympathy line, and to be honest I just don't have the time to wade through posts of people trying to outdo others with melancholy. Or even twee cuty-ness.

I suppose it is right to say "It's not you" etc for those out there who think that's what sinister's about, but I am not those.

I have met and "i-met" some lovely people, and to be fair you have all put up with my ramblings. A big hello and thankyou to those who fill their posts with the obscure, witty, smutty and generally light hearted comment and debate that I love the list so much for, or "loved". Gordon. DV. Archel, Miss Llew, Big Stu, Miss KK, Vel, Joe Pancake and many more besides. Honey, of course. And a big sorry to all those lovely people who wrote todays 24 odd posts, for I have not read them. I think the sheer number pushed me off the edge. No,that's not true, the seed was sown when Lil was beaten for missing out the quota of saccharine in a post.

To those who I owe stuff, it will be sent. To those who I have befriended or vice versa, "don't be a stranger now!". Nal, you should post. You have a lot of interesting things to say, and you know it.

The main difference between my post and Mr Carter's, though, is that people will be sorry to see him go. I know if I was staying I would.

Right, this must be my most serious post, ironic really.

There are many other things to say, but...eh, you get the jist. As whoever says, dance like nobody'd watching!

Love Corduroy Boy Tom

P.S. Corduroy Kitten, this is the last time you will se your name in a post from me. So... *A*S*T*R*I*D* *I*S* *A* *S*T*A*R*!*

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