Hello all.. thank you mr steve kado for inspiring the subject line...for some unknown reason just about everyone i know has been listening to massive amounts of ODB lately, myself included...there is just something about turning the volume all the way up, while dirnking some mysterious strawberry blonde lager, and sitting out in the bitter cold on a balcony being bundled up in hats and mittens... and then once your nose has become to cold to continue inhaling, and you decide to venture in, you realize just how thankful you are for the railing thats been so perfectly placed by your side, considering that the odds are with out it you would have helplessly tumbled down to your death as a result of total intoxication...i'm sure someone out there spends their weekends in a similar fashion... well , i thought i would throw you my own sad sob story of dying rodents and such...well i must have been about 8 years old when i went to the store with my dad and picked out Theodore, bringing him home all snug in a little brown bag...Teddy, as i fondly called him, was the greatest hamster , he ran himself around in circles on that silver wheel unlike any other...he was tops, running nonstop like no hamster had run before..and thats when it happened, Thanksgiving day, there was about 8 inches of snow on the ground...i go to feed my beloved, and there he was, my Teddy dead, and the killer in the cage with him..the silver wheel had done him in...poor little theodore was hanging from one leg upside down from his miniature hamster excercise equiptment...so i had no choice but to go out and burry him beneath the freshly fallen snowflakes...ah it was a mess oh, even though i never post, this may be my third time , i do know better then to post without including any B&S content, so i just thought i would share how strange it is to be greeted each day by this little voice chanting at me"ohh get my away from here i'm dying" seeing that i attend school with a bunch of pretentious preppy assholes, its nice to have finally after three years found a fellow fan who must also spend the better part of his day uner the same roof as me. anyway, most of you have no idea who i am, and will probably forget me soon after you read this, that is IF you have read this, because on this list i'm nothing but an observer..i just sorta assumed that to be my position some time ago, and have become quite comfortable with it, so dont expect me to venture out from my content hiding place all that often(not assuming that any of you would want me to) i just try to absorb and filter everything that is thrown my way...always remembering that most of you, if not all of you, are wonderful ladies and gents, and its never too late to learn a thing or two... adieu peu ceux Julia PS oh and Arantxa, i believe it was you who said you wanted to hear SONGS for DONKEYS it was just brought to my attention last night during a conversation with my favorite sinister member that there is a XMAS song titled Dominic the Donkey..i hear its quite amusing, complete with donkey sounds and all...so if you happen to live anywhere near NY(i think listening to it is part of their xmas tadtition) you might enjoy it.. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+