I'm a very sad (as in pathetic) girl. I wrote a wee ditty, ripping off the great B&S, by replacing a few words of their Storytelling song. Anyway, I read it, and I decided better of it to post it myself. But heres the jist: replace the word "characters" with "citizens"/ "country"/ "cabinet" "plot" becomes policy, as does "stories" replace "storyteller" with "politician" replace "tale" with "term". **A giant tumbleweed, called Bert, who has three small tumbleweed children and a wife called Lizzy who ran off with a shrub a year ago, decides to roll across the middle of the sinister mailing list, as an akward silence descends upon the good folk of sinister while they stare blankly at the author of poor quality postings** ANYWAY. I'm pleased to note that I'm no longer feeling like a lemon (in the figurative sense) in the Pocketbook Angels webring, and have been joined by more fruity and zesty interwebbers looking to link the United Blogs of Sinister (hey!) with the webring. The ring was set up with sinister bloggers in mind, I guess it was a lazy way to have a list of sinister blogs to read without having to add them to my bookmark list. Who knows, it might expand one day to be less exclusive and more inclusive of other B&S fans. But for the time being, its been set up really rather quickly (the idea has been floating around for a while though, but the actions were done in haste) and I guess I just wanted to see what would happen. I'm sure there might be a few mumblings about it being exclusive and whatever else have you, and that therefore being a bad thing, and so on and so forth. But its early days (less than a week, I reckon) and its just nice to get it established. If you've not joined, and would like to do so, its called Pocketbook Angels, and can be found at http://www.geocities.com/retrosec Ken Chu's colander has already signed up (amongst others) so nows the time to cyber rub shoulders with Ken himself. Or at least, his essential utensil. Yes, thats my selling point, and I think its a darn good one, albeit vaguely smutty. I tell you, I'd be no good at setting up my own company. I'd probably set it up and then six months later try and work out what it was going to do, having spent all the enterprawner bank loan on goodies from a stationery catalogue and whirly chairs. Mmm.. stationery. About a year ago, I wrote a series of posts to sinister, about being heartbroken. I was amazed at the time by the responses to my post. Well, I got back together with the heartbreaker in question, who will no doubt speak to me when he reads this and say, with a slight quizzical tone, "'heartbreaker'???". We got back together on Christmas eve. Some people say they saw it coming, although my mum was shocked. I was too, actually, and it was I who asked "shall we get back together?". I was shocked that my mouth could say such a thing, although I am regularly shocked by the things that I say. When I mentioned the phrase "boyfriend" at work, there were a few sly smiles and raised eyebrows and "oh yes...?" questions, to which I explained it was a recycled boyfriend. I'm not good at handling gushy, and felt slightly embarrassed, in the "I'm 14 and telling my mum I have a boyfriend" way. I'm not 14, I'm 24, if you were in any doubt. Now, I must go. love idleberry x x x ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+