It's May 4th, 2000. It's 7:20. It's just about time to gather my torts, pack up my kipple, load up on forged ballot papers and catch the tube to Camden. You see, no-one's mentioned that it's the 2nd anniversary of the first sinister picnic. Being a twee character - I mean, excessively sentimental, kind of like a spare character from 'Annie', but more 'Broken Blossoms' if you catch my drift - I was moved to tears by this. - Those burly football boys of 98 have forgotten our hurtling mid-pitch encounters!, I blinked through tear-stained eyes. I have decided to take the lore into my own paws. I'm organizing an event called 'It's Two Years Since The First Sinister Picnic' on Primrose Hill. It starts in 35 minutes, at 8pm. I'm going to eat the whole baguette, and probably a kettle of bag chips, myself. Then I'm going to drag weary limbs slowly to the Laid (On) Buzzard pub and buy round after generous round for myself. I'm enhancing the plan by "selling out". I have sold the rights for ITYSTFSP to BBC1, who will be broadcasting their London Mayoral results from it. The programme will be called 'London Subsides'. Ken Livingstone is coming at nine to swap purple things with me. I have a few, and so does he. In response to the character assassination practised against him by the so-called media and that over the last few days, not to mention the last 20 years, we are planning the nearest equivalent we can find to this practice, namely digit murder. At ten, the Ken and I will be singing traditional East European karaoke on the pavement outside. All the CDs used at the event are available from Tower Records. Tomorrow we'll be emphasizing our "sell-out" further by holding a press conference on Radio 5 Live. We'll be talking about congestion charges, Chelsea tube extensions, making the police more accountable, and our plans to issue two editions of each annual mayoral report, so that Ken fans in London have to buy both. The 'It's [x] Years Since The First Sinister Picnic' event will become a yearly, then a twice-yearly, then (thru summer) a monthly event. Charges will be made; batons too. Cordons will be erected (they'll be bleu). See you there, pinefox@ken4l.com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+