Sinister: It was half-past February

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Robert McTaggart wrote:

>>> It's Friday morning, the sun is shining

and I wonder how happy he was. I mean, he sounds
happy. What I mean is, to hear someone back there in
the pink mists sounding so happy - so open to a day's
freshness - almost makes *me* happy.

And think also of his youth.

Robert and his youth.

>>> and I'm preparing myself spiritually and mentally
for a weekend of Scottish country dancing

gosh. Maybe he wasn't happy after all. That was a
misreading on my part.

>>> (can anyone remember the steps to 'Bonnie Prince
Charlie's Hornpipe'?)

No. But I did hear someone talking about Scottish
dancing only 2 hours ago.

>>> I remember my English teacher coming into the room
on the first day of term and saying "Spring is here -
the time when Young McTaggart chases after young girls
and sticks his claymore into them". He was a strange
man, but a great influence.

Between you and me, that sounds like a puff. I mean, I
think he's giving himself a puff there, under the
guise of self-deprecation. I must ask him how he does
it.

>>> So I'm listening to 'The Hit Power of the
Exciters' 

Hang on, was this a PJ Miller post?

No.

>>> The cats are fighting like mad fools and the fur
is a-flyin'. And I'm officially 'working from home'.
Quelle belle vie!

I was right first time. He was happy after all.

>>> I must say how disappointed I was to miss Stuart
'Rupert' Murdoch on IRC yesterday. That Stu-d is
slippery as an eel.

Blige, that makes me think.

>>> Rod Begbie wrote:

There you go - I thought that Mark Casarotto had
invented Rod Begbie. Like Bob Mould, he didn't.

>>> Of course, over the atlantic, the merkins refer to
a scone as a biscuit, a biscuit as a cookie, and a bar
as a candy.

I don't know that the Yanks call scones biscuits. No
evidence I can recall. Cookie, candy, OK.

>>> have Jesse Garon and the Desperados been mentioned
yet? For about six months in the mid-eighties they
were the loveliest thing on the planet.

Actually, this is true. I checked. The months in
question were

October 1984
January 1985
mid-March-mid-April 1985
December 1985
March 1986
September 1986

'snowinsumr' is a Cure fan. How do I know? Cos 'Snow
In Summer' was a Cure B-side in 1987, and cos she
(she?) signs her(?)self ms elise.

And yet she says:

>>> i believe that the smith's "there is a light that
never goes out" is the perfect song...everytime i hear
it i can feel my body tense and the whole world melts
into this amazing dream...usually this is intensified
by massive tears and the shaken hands grasping for a
steadier...

I don't know what we can add to that.

>>> i suppose a nice sensitive boy is what i want...

Oh! There must be some kids out there on sinister now
for you.

>>> sensitive with at least a tenth of the sexual
politics that jarvis cocker has...

I'm not convinced.

invisible boy wrote:

>>> Believe it or not, it's taken the whole of IYFS
and three cans of stella for me to write this. Cripes,
and still loads of spelling mistakes.

That's why, silly!

Ally96Cook said:

>>>


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