Sinister: and then, the lighting of the lamps

[Toy Stephen]

hello sinisterguese,

Ill add another post to Big Stu's bored-at-work genre.
Work this morning is a disaster too. Systems,
machines, a universe of 1s and 0s or something is
rebelling and everyone's in a panic. I take my cue
from Kara instead:

>Now if we can all manage to do the dance at the same 
>time, the planets will align and there will be world
>peace.  With all that 
>tail wagging, how could there not be.

Me too! Tickets for Chicago, triplicated and filed.
Has anyone ever been to the Congress Theatre? Hows it?
I wanna dance! What's most frightening is the image
that appears in my head when I think of dancing. It's
a trauma seared onto my psyche. The night after I saw
the film _Tom and Viv_ with Willem Dafoe & Miranda
Richardson, I dreamt that Tom Eliot and Bertie Russel
were dancing a hybrid gigue and grinder. It haunted me
for days. I think what scares me most is having T.S.
Eliot as a lover. There are few people in history I
think would be a worse lay.

No segue (except that the word looks like 'gigue')
but:
JenOwl rightly chided me for a depressing post abt
being mental. I didnt mean for it to be a dreary
injection. Sorry if it brought anyone down. The only
thing valuable in it was applauding Rachel Fruitloop's
courage. & affirming that it's perfectly normal to
admit things are bad, & you feel like a traitor to yr
own life. Things improve anyway. Altho' I still hold
firm on disliking Skittles. But, since Jenowl used
them nicely to object to my melancholia, Ill happily
send her many packages if she provides a post address.

I lay in bed the other night thinking up
forward-backward words, and not because Im a satanist
and used my imagination as that mysterious LP that
speaks to you when played in reverse. Counting sheep
never does the trick. Any, what's the name for a word
that spells another word backwards? Is there a more
specific term than anagram?

I came up with:
Evil lives in dogs and gods. 

i bored myself sufficiently to fall asleep. can anyone
think of others?

for Valentine's Day I tried to see a performance of
the Vagina Monologues. Tickets sold out before my
chance in the queue. I saw my old lover with a ticket
near the door. The first time Ive seen her in months.
I felt oddly defeated (and delighted) that she was
getting into Vagina tonight, even though I wasnt.

Big Stu also said:

>Of course, Thursday nights are currently booked 
>into my diary as Banzai night (the bizzarest,
>funniest and probably best 
>thing on TV for ages)...

Oooh, I agree, tho it's ruthless at times. I did a
sketch for the show; payed £25 for two hours of work.
There were nine beautiful people in the dressing room.
5 girls and 4 other boys. The studio Channel 4 was
using was backed-up, so we had to bide our time.
everyone checked their makeup, everyone had head shots
with them, everyone had at least 3 agents. i looked
down at the tin of Stella anytime I felt someone was
going to ask me these questions. I eventually had to
confess Id only seen a flyer in the Notting Hill
Record Exchange for paid TV extras work. They all
became quiet as if I told them I was terminally ill.
hehehe. but the sketch was Guess Whose Mobile has the
Swing-Low Sweet Chariot ringtone. They didnt even give
me a mobile. I was a decoy. The sultry lights and
camera made me wanna shoot a plastic gun and wave to
the world like Mike Teevee in Willy Wonka. Pow pow,
look at me Im on TV, it makes up for the shortcomings
of being poor. 

I have a B&S memory that came by all Proustian-like
when my long-absent copy of IYFS was returned; but
words feel clunky & Id rather celebrate the coming
spring and show. all the posts abt Midwest meet-ups --
can we devise a fete for that May weekend in Chicago?

sinistercerest,
t.s.

Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?
Quick, said the bird, find them, find them,
Round the corner. 


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