Hello Sinister!!!!!! Guess what WE did yesterday!?!? We had a Southern-ish California Sinister Picnic on the luverly shores of Santa Monica. Of course, it was nowhere as grand as the Edinburgh Picnic, but then again, what is? The best part was that 5 of us showed up!!! Those in attendance were Sara Bus Stoppers, Ernie Sanchez, Adrian "Glurp" Rudloff, me and that boy Bapps. We started out not knowing if we would even be able to attend because of my horrendous illness, but Ben swore that he would have dragged me out no matter what because "he knows what's best for me"... of course, as I have reported before, my navigation skills are not the best even when not altered by cold medication. So I got us a little bit lost and besides that a mile and a half on the 405 takes a long time! Sara and Adrian were already waiting there under the Santa Monica Pier Sign for quite a while, unaware that they were both Sinister! An old Polish woman, man with an umbrella hat and beach balls, an imposter ben & rachel couple and ten zillion pigeons later, we arrived. We all introduced ourselves and Sara notified us that Ernie was "on his way". We made our way to a shady patch of grass nearby, unfolded our sheet and made ourselves comfortable. Ben chose the accompanying music and we offered sangria and bread and cheese and strawberries and cream and chocolates. In no time at all, it became apparent that Sara is indeed the perfect match for Ken Chu (she has been telling us this for a while, but now we know first hand!) And Ken, her shit don't stink! Sara, you are just lovely, ignore my Rachel slurs! Ernie arrived and seemed to just crash land next to me. It was great seeing you again Ernie, you are so sweet! Adrian is very engaging, and at no time at all, we all had an engagement with him at the Rose Bowl! The five of us left our picnic spot to meet up at Adrian's nearby apartment so we could caravan to the L.A. Galaxy soccer match. It was great because Ben and I had decided that if no-one showed up or if we could possibly encourage the attendees to go to the match then we would go. So it was perfect. The boys were really into the game. They pretend to be all sensitive and twee, but really they're just jocks! I was trying to translate the game into girlyspeak for Sara but we ended up just laughing hysterically at greasy mullets and a little kid dipping licorice into nacho cheese. Sara's favorite by far was when the Galaxy scored their 2 goals and they blew out confetti from the top of the stadium. My favorite part was that my hair matches the team's color. Ben's favorite part was that we get free KFC (because they did a draw and if Carlos Ruiz scored a goal in the second half then we'd get free chicken!) I don't know what Ernie's favorite part was, maybe the free soccer balls we got. Adrian's favorite part was probably that he went out to a Sinister picnic and walked away with 4 people to go see his team play, and Galaxy won! This could be a trend! Ben is muttering something about SinisterfitbaUSA.... So we need 22 of you at the next Los Angeles meet up for a proper kickabout! Or we could just go watch the pro's again, it was so much fun! Love to you all, Rachel fruitloop __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+