One Madeleine McNeil spake:

I am currently working on my Librarian Chic (TM) with the help of the fashion gurus in #sinister. SO far, I've established that I need: pleated skirt, specs, hair in a bun, pursed lips and a hankie tucked up my sleeve for constant sniffles.

Dear god child, you've forgotten the cardie! It's the most important bit of the ensemble. And if you haven't got your glasses on some kind of thin silver chain, you might as well just pack up your AACR2(revised) and work at a bookstore or some other such abomination. You've got to want it! Speaking of librarians, I'm one of those and I haven't had much to say lately, which is why those of you who didn't frequent #sinister about a year ago don't have a clue who I am. Well, I'm Will and I'm a librarian and I live in New York City. I have just gotten new glasses. They are brown. They are bigger than my old ones. The old ones were silver and wire framed and teeny and these ones are plastic and brown and narrow (vertically) but broad (horizontally). I like them, but the other kids at the library tease me. In the time since I last posted, I have: ummm. Nothing to report. In related news, I still like Belle and Sebastian. OOh speaking of bands, do you all love Call and Response? You ought to. Today, a really very pretty woman who frequents my library passed me on the street walking the cutest spaniel I have ever seen. Unfortuately, said woman is married, which should come as no surprise because 1. she's really very pretty 2. she's interesting (foreign and always reading good books) and 3. because I have something of a crush on her. Which isn't so say I don't have something of a crush on about 45% of the women I meet. I'm a promiscuous crusher. Speaking of crushes, shockingly little attention seems to be paid to the list crush thingy anymore. Back in my day, list crushes were something we participated in, dammit! And Archel and Starry and Fiona had 'em all! and we liked it! And we had to walk 10 miles uphill in the snow to vote! Umm actually it was a little website that allowed for egregious ballot-box stuffing. And you could get to it from your chair. And I'm really not a list old-timer, as the list old-timers can attest. But list crushes are fun! Have fun! Be crushy! Yeah! xo Will Porter, who used to be the new Will, but isn't anymore. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+