Hello extended family, This message is lean on the B & S content--I really have nothing original to say about the band really. Last night my mom was having some serious chest pains and thought she might be having a heart attack. Her boyfriend called up and started acting like he knew about heart disease. He drives a truck for a living. It got me thinking about how I hate the way that even though he treats my mother well, he is often condescending to her because she is a woman. I think this is a bunch of crap and I told my mom's best friend so; and her best friend told me that they had a huge blow out about it. But my mom stays with him because she dreadfully fears being alone--after all my father abandoned her and she is right in her assumption that her current boyfriend is a better man than my dad. Because he is, sometimes. Am I an awful human being for wishing she were with someone beter? Ultimately it is her choice who she wants to be with, but I think she can do better than a condescending Christian who uses his beliefs to justify the domination of women and to put down homosexuals. I understand her fear of being alone--I've been alone for 3 years--but I sometimes think that being alone would be better than this. That Belle and Sebastian is one fantastic band, eh? Brandt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+