Hello all-- I have to make this very quick, lucky for you, because I must run out the door to catch the T to the train which will carry me merrily to NYC for Picnic 2000 and, apparently, a certain birthday. I have a few little (very little) reasons for posting, and the first one contains actual B&S content: In the October, 2000 Spin "no, really, we're indie" Magazine can be found the results of a poll taken last month. Apparently, the glossy-advertising vehicle asked its readers "who should Slim Shady dis next?" Readers were given the following hilarious choices: Hanson (69%), Belle and Sebastian, and Your Mom. The last two candidates tied with 15.5% of the votes each. What a LAFF RIOT. Other item: I need to apologize to everyone, and especially to Honey, for allowing my auto vacation reply get into the works like a rusty spanner. I'm really sorry everyone had to hear that I was away. If it eases the jealousy any, I had a miserable, wet, sweaty time sloggin through fog and mist and rain and VERY BAD ODORS in the Green Mountains with 40 pounds of inedible cured meats on my back. Again, sorry. One last thing: again, sorry: I am about to (very briefly) revive the Boring Political Thread. I happened to hear Jesse Ventura on National Public Radio yesterday. (For those unfamiliar with him, he is Minnesota's Independent Party governor, and a former professional wrestler. While running for office, which EVERYONE said was a joke, he couldn't possible win in a million bazillion years, etc, he used the theme from "Shaft" in a campaign ad). On the Nader topic, Jesse defined a wasted vote, saying that it isn't a vote cast for a candidate who "can't win," but rather a vote that does not reflect one's conscience. If everyone always voted only for the candidate they thought was sure to win, there would never be any change. Okay, I must run. I am very excited for the picnic and meeting new people and even about the train ride with my magazines and novels and crosswords and discs and all. I am pretty sure that the last time I rode on a train was 1986 (!) when I had no money and had to travel all the way from NYC to New London, Connecticut, hiding from the conductor in the WC with Gabriella Teresa Ranelli. Note to Pauline Shivers: if you need a female version of the currently-written-out-of-plot macaroni, look no further. schatz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+