I was riding on a bus on Saturday, through bucolic West Lothian. We passed a field of sheep, all laid on their sides with their legs outstreched, and my automatic reaction was that they had all been killed. I have been watching the news too much; although i've been trying not to because it's depressing. All those dead animals being forklifted about and burned. Today, i went to get groceries. I walked past the meat counter in Safeway, and saw all the packets of "fresh" meat -- mince, chops, etc -- were a horrible brown-grey colour. The lamb chops were a shiny green. i'm sure this isn't right. Later on Saturday I hit myself on the forehead with a spanner, but that's entirely incidental. I have a lovely scab, though. I was down the local bookshop the other day, and noticed a wonderful-looking book of cartoons by a chap called Peter Blegvad. Not quite the E. Gorey of the new century, but near enough for my taste. According to a recent copy of the Guardian, he's a musician as well (although they filed him under "crossover" rather than "P!O!P!"). His main cartoon character is a little baby rather like the one on the front of Fairy Liquid bottles. I go through phases of liking cartoonists, actually. I used to think Stephen Appleby was great, but now he grates a little. Incidentally (again), the Guardian was what inspired me to buy my first B&S record, with its review of IYFS. They said it sounded as if they had spent too long without leaving their bedsit; i wonder sometimes if Sturan was thinking of that when writing I Fought In A War. i was going to say how my bum is all bruised still from when i kept falling over on the ice a few weeks back, but then i realised that i'd infringe the Body Parts Rule. so i won't. Re: Ribena: my flatmate likes it. but she leaves empty cartons all over the place for me to clean up. grrr. Re: CarsmileSteve: i thought i was the only person who fantasised about getting on Who Wants To Be A Whatsit, only for question 15 to be "Who won the best newcomer brit award in 1999?" i bet chris tarrant would insist on me pretending i didn't know it instantly, just for the drama of the moment. (for the us readers: chris tarrant is the bloke that regis thingy stole his catchphrases from. is that your final answer? yes, just give me the bloody cash!) anyway, i'm going. g'night for today. x will -- "it would be nice if god is mauve" -- Ken Chu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+