Sinister: nitpicking, advertising, scrounging and vomiting

[Rachel Playforth]

so b&s have recorded 'pop songs'.  in inverted commas.  and here we all were
thinking that they manufactured frozen chickens. tch.

and i wouldn't describe the springfields as dusty springfield's backing
band.

i was in a very nice pub on saturday, called the great eastern, which i
don't think is a delgados reference.  they played tbwtas though, which was
fun.  *i* don't even play tbwtas any more.

i have also found the coolest shop, devoted to all things francais.  lots of
lovely musique, livres, babar, boules, and Best Of All extravagant amounts
of petit prince merchandise.  i covet their cute lunchboxes but can only
afford the pencils... (no sexual subtext intended - this is the little
prince we're talking about, people.)

all the submissions i've had to buzzwords this year have been from people
called greg.  really.  i've never even met *one* person called greg before.
anyway, thanks to greg and greg.  for top extra-sinister literary action
there's still only one place to be.....

would some nice person like to send me a tape/cd of 'the friends of rachel
worth' because i *still* can't afford to buy it (given that my local record
shops, or thieving bastards as i prefer to call them, think £16 an
acceptable price) and my boyfriend's stereo is out of commission so i can't
scrounge tapes off him like i usually do.  i ask this in the knowledge that
there are at least 4 go-betweens evangelists out there who won't see this as
flagrant blagging but as an exciting opportunity to spread the (ageing) word
of forster and maclennan.  fools...

umm... i can't ride on city buses for a hobby any more, as i've started to
get dramatically travel sick on anything which doesn't go on rails, a
phenomenon last seen on family holidays to cornwall (8 hours in a mini, 7 of
which were spent vomiting).  i fear this is all part of the general
regression initiated by bagpuss all those months ago...

since i can't travel any more, we're going to have to have a brighton
meet-up.  i've been meaning to organise this for a while - anyone interested
enough please mail me.

well, must go, job applications to avoid, washing up to leave for someone
else, you know how it is...

archel xxx

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Rachel Playforth
'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson

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