looks like i am too late for rachel fruitloop's inevitable report back. but anyway i find halloween stupid, mainly because for 364 days a year children are told NEVER, not in any circumstances, to take sweets from strangers. then on halloween the poor things are positively encouraged to go round to strangers' houses and actually DEMAND sweets off them. wrong. so b&s have uk dates coming up in december, apparently. although i'm never normally inclined to trust jo whiley, who doesn't even know that being barefoot does not a good interviewer make. now for my own stab at being fruitloopishly referential: rob wrote: I regard semi-colons as a grammatical offside rule; ask people to explain it and they start confidently, then hesitate before backtracking and starting again. Did I do that right by the way, Archel? hm. do you know, i would have used a full colon there personally. however, i'm not going to make an idiot of myself by trying to explain; nor am i going to use a semi-colon ever again in a sinister post, just in case i don't do it properly after all. incidentally, one of the writers in the festival i'm currently involved with had to pull out because of a 'perforated colon'. which is quite an appropriate sounding injury for a writer... robin has multi-coloured pens. i'm so jealous. i hope i get them in my new job, also colour-coded stickers for the revolutionary filing system i will undoubtedly implement. as for anthrax in lovehearts - this freaked me completely as my friend gave me some lovehearts the other day which he had apparently got through the post from virgin mobile. i was a bit dubious about it at the time, but having determined not to let paranoia get in the way of my sugar consumption, ate them anyway. so if this is my final post, you know why. pez mentioned the two versions of harry potter. why *is* the title different in the us? considering that the 'philosophers stone' of the title refers to the specific alchemical legend (which i doubt has a different name stateside) what is the POINT of changing it? if you treat audiences like they're stupid, you'll make them stupider.... elise's hilarious merit badges reminded me of matt groening's 'life in hell' stuff, and had a similar effect on the dryness of my pants :) but then my sinister Post of the Week, possibly Year, came in from big stu, and i was really in trouble. almost out of clean dry pants. i never thought the idea of me rendering a will infertile would make me laugh so much. genius. luv archel toast xxx (luckily mr hatchback's bread revelation will not interfere with my toast plans - when we are living together matt will be baking fresh bread for me every morning. i've decided.) *************************************** archel@iname.com For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+