hello there, comments on recent digests follow. not that i can read recent digests as my mail web software thing truncates messages about 1K in so i get the digest contents and the first three lines of the first missive before the --- truncated --- message. pah. but first: the big hairy cave has finished relocating to hammersmith. the room that was empty last week is now too full of things in cardboard boxes to move about in. oh um. just finished moving the boxes into the new room and was staring idly out of the kitchen window when a fox came and walked along the fence at the back of the house and curled up and sat there sunning itself for a good half an hour. in hammersmith. blimey. i also saw ANOTHER b&s fan on the district line tube through hammersmith on friday lunchtime, that's two in as many weeks. hammersmith surely is a hotbed for closet b&s fans. and no, i said nothing to him either. 'hello' if you're reading this. how's the paul auster? laurel and brandt were talking about not talking to people on trains. we don't do that here either. which always seems like a pity as trains usually have an interesting social mix. the one time i went to scotland i took a little time to go across the forth bridge in a train (which was probably a bad idea cos it's hard to see the forth bridge whilst actually ON the forth bridge but...) and i was quite shocked to hear strangers on the train talking to one another quite happily. buckfast has a lot to answer for. looper book signing: i wonder if i can get him to sign it 'this is pish'? he'll probably just tell me to fuck off. again. trousers:

Now, whatever happened to Watson and Begbie? Hmm that sounds like a good title for a detective series....

rod begbie is alive and well and occasionally posts to slashdot: news for nerds. pamelab:

and I said to myself, self, you should post to the list that brought you and the hubby together in the first place

aah, i remember that first meeting, in the pub on the sunday of the manchester weekend, meeting pam for lunch only to find that the pub we'd chosen was closed and eating instead in the french place across the street, me, pam and my friend from university. i ordered a grilled cheese sandwich expecting cheddar filled triangles and it arriving as melting brie in a toasted baguette. later i had to leave, trains and stuff, leaving those two to their own devices. little did any of us know...

after a boozy night out sometimes I need to drop the needle on the mat a couple of times before actually finding the edge of the record.

peel, during his 'sounds of the suburbs' series, went and visitied some people who make 7" singles from things like slices of wood, circular saw blades, sandpaper discs and biscuit (they looked quite nice, had proper labels and everything) and they said that they never have any trouble with needles, the needles being diamond tipped and all.

next week: we test-drive a porsche armed only with a fourth generation tape copy of tigermilk! I'll let you know how it sounds.

pah! i did that tape. and it was straight from the vinyl. some people. ungrateful... 8) oh, and if E.A. Hotstepper doesn't like toronto (or indeed montreal) then she could always go somewhere friendly like los angeles, i'm sure she'd have a wonderful time there, there are some great clubs around, especially on thursday nights... (knowing smile... 8) andy ===== andrew dean (koogydelbbog@yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+