RE: Sinister: How I learnt to stop worrying and love Begbie
Rod wrote:
The Idler is my favourite magazine at the moment. A magazine dedicated to >people who'd rather sit around all day, watching telly, listening to music, and >partaking of recreational drugs, written by people who are intelligent, witty and >very, very funny.
... Rod is right. "The Idler" is full of the sort of writing we should all aspire to. Sarcastic, well-informed, politically incorrect in all the right places, and in none of the wrong ones.
There's Louis Theroux's unfinished jokes... Isn't Louis Theroux the bloke who did that "Weird Weekends" thing on BBC2 a while back? Seeing him playing acoustic guitar (sarcastically, if that's
Oh yes, sorry. The Idler strikes the right balance between witty cynicism at careerism and the work ethic, pleasure from simple things, and plain old subversive decadence. And it rules. Alright, I'm sold. So how do you get hold of it, then, if it's not too much
Tag wrote: possible) with a proselytising mission for The Family in some godforsaken American town was a peach, it really was. Not to mention the episode on the porn industry. Hi-larious. trouble, O Idle Evangelists? ByeBye, Liz. ************************************************* Tsuki-Yuki-Hana Twitch the blind and peep at the moon. The big round moon like a piece of soap. It washes the daylight out of your eyes and fills them with night-time. Ivor Cutler ************************************************ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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ELIZABETH DAPLYN