Hello to all, My name is Chris, and this here would be my first official post to this here list. I live in Portland, OR right now, so I suppose I can relate on a very minor level to all of you Londoners with your bad weather and all. But not really, as we've had a very pleasant summer thus far into the year--sorry to gloat, but it's true. At least you all have your picnics. It doesn't seem as though the invisible twee among us in P-town have the organizational skills to unite for a picnic. Or at least I'm putting my foot in my mouth and speaking out of turn; perhaps we have them all the time and I just don't know about it. At any rate, it's high time we have one, as I'm convinced there hasn't been one yet. Agreed about wasps, but a good game of kickball always makes up for any inconveniences imposed by insects. I recently made the voyage down south to wonderful San Francisco for the PopFantasy 2001 extravaganza, and let me tell you! I had more fun than two barrels full of monkeys! A lot of you have talked about the Aislers Set, so I am sure you're then also familiar with the How, #Poundsign# and the Fairways. Amazingly enough, they all played a set in those four tantalizing days. Along with Ciao Bella, Tullycraft, Aerospace, Girlfrendo, Boyracer, the Cannanes, the Lucksmiths, the Brittle Stars, Hideki Kaji, Yuji Oniki, the Tyde, Lunchbox, Moonrace, Bennett, Scrabbel and Comet Gain. But to those other Sinisterites out there who also made the Mecca for popfest, you already knew that. Speaking of which, are there any of you who happened to go this year? Have you also ever at any given point in time been a Cutie Clubber? I met a tremendous number of us C.C.'ers at that fun little festival. That was quite extraordinary. So enough backtracking, yes, if you've got the modem speed, you should check in on that Aislers Set broadcast; every time I've seen them, they blow me away. Ahhh, but the Fairways--no true B&S fan should be without "Is Everything All Right?" About stealing bowling shoes. I've often contemplated the same thing, as have numerous friends of mine. The biggest problem that I see in pulling off this feat (no pun intended) is this, often, the bowling alleys will mar the shoes with big ugly Sharpie marks along the side. Usually a number corresponding to the cubby hole they belong to. The trick isn't how to get away with it, that's easy. But how on earth to find a pair that don't have marker down the side. Plus, as mentioned, they're often rather smelly...and all of those feet. Ick. Spreadables: let me say, I like my english muffins about like so: toasted lightly, but enough to be hot, and then spread thinly with Vegemite, not your Marmite stuff. Next, I like to apply a rather liberal coat of peanut butter over that. Nowhere is there butter on my toast when there's Vegemite on it. Butter is alright with preserves, now that I like. But the best spread of all is Nutella. Creamy and sweet. But too much ruins the yumminess, because it's almost too sweet for so early in the morning, Chris _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+