Sinister: N is for Neville who died of ennui

[sophie harris]

feeling chirpy, i opened up my pink plastic electronic fortune teller 
cookie. i asked 'will today be a good day?' and it spelled out 'HOPELESS'. 
twice. and then i couldn't shut it, so it kept doing more 'answers' - 'CAN'T 
TELL', 'ASK ME LATER'... i didn't mind.
*
hello beautiful cherubs
just some little words from me because i have that splendid ooh must write 
to sini feeling, which is a rare bird indeed - the reading i love, but the 
compulsion to write comes surprisingly like ooh i dunno, fog... *anyway*, 
rambles aside...
i got in early this morning, and so have been able to relish my digest, but 
the *best* part is that i've got the cd player on my i-mac working, and 
yesterday i fiiiinallly got my own proper arab strap on cd so now i have 
everything on the same format (twitchy i know) - and so i snuck it on as 
soon as i got in and felt just dandy (i'm scared to put my stuff on the 
office stereo as it's quite loud and am worried everyone willtake the piss 
:( ) -
aaargh! other people have arrived, and put the proper stereo on - my arab 
strap is now drowned out by horrid kid a!! bumm-er.
the ever charming idleberry said:
I can't get into chat rooms anymore, including
sinister chat, jeepster chat and corduroy smoke chat.
Grr.
growls and frowns indeed, nor can i , it is rooobish. but then the equally 
lovely kenneth p chu said 'It would be grate that one day the Queen
would say "No, Tony we are not going to rename the Houses of Parlament the
Kool House of fun because it's silly" and i laughed out loud. although i was 
then dogged by thoughts of eviiiiil pat sharp's 'fun house' (use your body 
and your brain if you wanna play the game).
the painting competition  is just terribly exciting - and specially cause 
it's electronic, 'cause that means that unlike Tony Hart's 'The Gallery', we 
don't have to part with out pics forever. i always wanted to send stuff in, 
but they would say at the end of the programme 'sorry, we can't return any 
pictures', and i was devastated at the thought of my best pasta picture 
being lost foerever.
hey, does anyone know where i can get some nice wallpaper for my computer 
screen? only i don't want sunset beaches or animals in hats etc, just 
something pleasing and not too distraqcting. (ooh i like that typing).
On a final, rather sad note, Edward Gorey has died. He made the Quangle 
Wangle Quee book, and the Utter Zoo Alphabet, with such lovelies as
'The Wambalus has floppy ears
With which to wipe away its tears'
and
"The Veazy makes a creaking noise
It has no dignity or poise.'
i really really heartily do recommend a look at
http://users.aol.com/emarko/gorey.html
and The Gashleycrumb Tinies... i really nearly *promise* you'll love it.
t'ra for now
a tug on your duffle coat sleeve
and lots of love
xxsoph
*

_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at 
http://profiles.msn.com.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
    +---+  Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list  +---+
    To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe
    send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
    majordomo at missprint.org.  WWW: http://www.missprint.org/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        +-+
 +-+   "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000   +-+
 +-+       "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named       +-+
 +-+           Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000           +-+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+