Hello tigers, By the time I've read my weekend digests I forget all the things I wanted to say about them... Oh yes...the *thing* that spurred on all the letters about merchandising was a rumour that Jeepster would STOP doing the merchandise. It seems that this is a true rumour, but, I am guessing, all it means is that someone else who can devote themselves full-time to t-shirts and embossed nail-clippings will handle it all, leaving Jeepster more time to get sweaty about Snow Patrol. Um. Does anyone else find themselves imagining that at some time at least one of B&S may feel like setting up their own record label? Or perhaps it's already happened and I'm being slow. Watch this space regardless... The porno parrot sounds like a spanking good idea. I for one took "Delta of Venus" to Bowlie at the *specific* orders of Madam Isobel, and even displayed it in our chalet window, but no-one knocked on the door and asked if they could take it for a "read". I also once had the ignominy, when I was working for my mum, to be sent to a bookshop to pick up a sample of A.N. Roquelaure's oeuvre. Happily bouncing up to the assistant, I asked for some samples of this mysterious scribe, only to be led by the blushing girl to the "filth" section, whereby I purchased a book called "The Taming of Sleeping Beauty", in which a rather wimpish young lady gets repeatedly tied up and spanked and just occasionally penetrated, although her male chum gets a statue's phallus in his bottom (cf. Nick Dastoor) and all kinds of dodgy oral shenanigans. Ta Mum. I also think that a B&S computer game sounds like an even better idea. I'm too dull and unimaginative to think of how it could all pan out - perhaps The Wonderful Mind of PJMiller could help us out here - but the option of controlling Stuart (guitar-wielding warrior elf) or Richard (master of invisibility) is too appealing an opportunity to miss... And finally - nice to see a music journalist or two in the nursery - business or pleasure, gentlemen? If it's gossip you're after, why, I hope you don't think we talk about that kind of thing here! Tssk. Bye chickens, Your loving Mark xxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+