I’m sitting here chewing on a Reese’s NutRageous! (I don’t know if it has an exclamation mark, but if it doesn’t, it should) bar I bought in Minneapolis yesterday. In London, it has an air of the exotic about it, like when my mum used to come back from LA laden with Hershey bars which tasted of sick. And they still do! Is this a weird American thing, enjoying the flavour of vomit? It certainly turns the concept of a Hershey’s Kiss from a sweet sounding chocolate snack into a scary and unpleasant reminder of that teenage party experience with the really, really drunk chick... I have a jar of proper peanut butter downstairs. Smooth, I think it is. I don’t think I’ll be eating it on toast, although I was fed my first ever peanutbutterandjelly sandwich a few weeks ago, and it was certainly palatable. So maybe if I feel like a change of nourishment I’ll give it a go. I actually bought it in a frenzy of thinking I’d actually start cooking properly earlier in the year. I don’t know what brought it on, as I’m in a cooking trough at present, with little more than stuffed pasta and the occasional sausage passing my lips (matron). The idea of a delicious satay of some description is beginning to make my mouth water, though, so if anyone has any decent recipes, please feel free to send them to me! I’d better get this on topic. If the topic is PEANUT BUTTER! No, seriously, folks. Take my mother in law. Ahem. It’s quite a trial trying to associate peanut butter with Belle and Sebastian, and you may wonder why I would bother doing such a thing. Well, I want to. Oh, and Archel said I had to. Pleasingly, there are “about” 381 results when “peanut butter” “Belle and Sebastian” are inputted into google. However, at www.googlefight.com, peanut butter WHUPS THE ASS of B&S, with almost 9 times as many references! Personally, B&S will always mean more to me than PB, but I’m obviously in the minority. I once used vegetable oil to lubricate the valves on my trumpet. That was 5 years ago, and I haven’t touched it since. What do you think’ll be inside the valves if I try to remove them? And will it have the viscosity (and crunchiness) of peanut butter? I am expecting it will. I might have to resurrect my trumpet. Only problem is, I used to play it when I lived in a detached house, and now that I’m in a block of flats it might not be so much appreciated. Oh, and I gave it up because I couldn’t reach the high notes. It was okay, though, cos I took up the euphonium instead. Well, I say okay, but at least people in my music GCSE class didn’t actually *laugh* at me during lessons when I was playing the trumpet. So I gave it up and took up the flute. Look! http://www.missprint.org/sinister/picnics/MarkFlute.html All the old picnic photos look so much fun. I wonder if we’ll ever see their like again? Of course, if all the Newcomers and lurkers were to come along to some sinister gatherings, it would be like a phoenix rising from the flames. Feel free to email me off list to ask if anything’s going on, cos we tend to meet up at least weekly (in London, this is). Ah go on. Sinister needs its new blood. There may even be some peanut butter in it for you… Hugglez, Mark xxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+