Sinister: It makes up for the shortcomings of being poor...

[Robin Stout]

Things I got free this week
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1. A free Eccles Cake, when I bought a sandwich in our student union 
shop. It was very tasty, and quite unexpected. The lady just 
produced the Eccles cake, saying "...and here's your free cake." as 
if it was the most natural thing in the world. I was confused.

2. Later on I wandered into the union bar to try and get some change 
for the bus and a lady at the door said to me "hello, are you here for 
the quiz?". "Er, no." "Oh, well take this anyway" she said, giving me 
a pink raffle ticket. Pink eighty-six - my luck number. Inside were lots 
of people, being given free pizza and beer, including me it seemed, 
before "the quiz". So I ate, and drank all I could, before realising I 
was the only one who wasn't there for the quiz, and running away.

3. Free money - somehow my student grant has been mis-calculated 
so I've been given lots of money. Blimey.

	I was supposed to have been marching for student grants 
last week with Miss Starry Sarah but I didn't and now I feel twice as 
guilty as I did anyway. 

Belle and Sebastian dream
======================

	I've been having a few disturbing dreams recently. The most 
disturbing, even more disturbing than the one about the donkey and 
Dusty Bin, was the one I had on Wednesday. In it, I was having 
breakfast, and reading the paper, when I noticed a picture in the 
showbiz section. It was a picture of Mick and Richard standing next 
to Mr Homo-erectus himself, Liam Gallager. The headline was "B+S -
Oasis concert outrage" and told of the "anger" from B+S at the 
protests being held about the concert they were going to do with 
Oasis. Mick was quoted as saying "Basically Liam has had a lot of 
bad press, he's a really nice bloke and I feel honoured to play with 
him." Liam said "Aye, an I love me mom, too, you fookin bastards".
	Arantxa says I think too much about people in bands being 
"real people". Maybe this is true and I'm worrying about Richard's 
"showbiz lifestyle". But I do worry, you know.

Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
=======================

	I'm in two minds about the protests in Seattle, because 
although the cause is right, a lot of the protesters are there for the 
wrong reasons.

Here's a quote from yesterday's Independent;

"We don't have time to change things non-violently," said a 17-year-
old demonstrator called Rain, who said the protesters of the 1960s 
were too passive. 
"But property destruction is not violence. It's fun and it gets 
people's attention." 

	Nice one, Rain, now have a bath.
	The kids in the U.S. have spent so long without an 
alternative to capitalism, they know what they're fighting against but 
they don't know what they're fighting for. That's why they're so full of 
apathy and violence. So they were marching against capitalism, but 
they weren't marching for socialism, or communism, or free-love or 
better shoes or anything like that. Grrr. (Robin pulls an angry face)

	It's happening in Britain too. So it's a good job I live in the 
Sinister Nation, isn't it?

	love
		Robin
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