Sinister: "Oooh! A fresh batch of America balls!"

[Robert Brennan]

Hellooo...   Happy new Sinister Year!  This is my
first post of 2002 so I'm obliged to tell you how my
New Year thingie went.  Unfortunately all I can
remember is slipping on some ice outside the Slug &
Lettuce in Richmond and nearly falling in the Thames. 
 Grate fun.  

I got a book for Xmas called America's Idea of a Good
Time.  It's by a lady called Kate Schermerhorn who
took a lot of very good photos of parades, county
fairs, tractor pulls etc.  Sort of the American
equivalents of village fetes in the UK.  Dotted among
the photos are all sorts of little facts and
statistics:  Apparently Americans hold around 7000
parades a month.  Wow!  Your feet must be knackered! 
Anyway, if you live in America and you've been to/in a
parade/county fair/monster truck rally - email me and
tell me about it so I can have some vicarious
experiences to match the images.  Mmmm...  

Rachel and others talked about music magazines.  I've
not managed to see a copy of CTCL yet and I can't be
arsed to buy most of the mags around at the moment.  I
used to read Select regularly even while it was going
horribly downhill before its eventual demise.  It was
a good magazine once and in its final days managed to
blag a copy of the Struan interview from the Glasgow
U. Guardian. *sigh* those were the days...  Good luck
to CTCL anyways.

There's been an awful lot of very good posts lately. 
You know who you are.

All the best

Robster



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