Sinister: Numbnut butter

[Mark Casarotto]

I’m sitting here chewing on a Reese’s NutRageous! (I
don’t know if it has an exclamation mark, but if it
doesn’t, it should) bar I bought in Minneapolis
yesterday. In London, it has an air of the exotic
about it, like when my mum used to come back from LA
laden with Hershey bars which tasted of sick. And they
still do! Is this a weird American thing, enjoying the
flavour of vomit? It certainly turns the concept of a
Hershey’s Kiss from a sweet sounding chocolate snack
into a scary and unpleasant reminder of that teenage
party experience with the really, really drunk
chick...

I have a jar of proper peanut butter downstairs.
Smooth, I think it is. I don’t think I’ll be eating it
on toast, although I was fed my first ever
peanutbutterandjelly sandwich a few weeks ago, and it
was certainly palatable. So maybe if I feel like a
change of nourishment I’ll give it a go.

I actually bought it in a frenzy of thinking I’d
actually start cooking properly earlier in the year. I
don’t know what brought it on, as I’m in a cooking
trough at present, with little more than stuffed pasta
and the occasional sausage passing my lips (matron).
The idea of a delicious satay of some description is
beginning to make my mouth water, though, so if anyone
has any decent recipes, please feel free to send them
to me!

I’d better get this on topic. If the topic is PEANUT
BUTTER! No, seriously, folks. Take my mother in law.
Ahem. It’s quite a trial trying to associate peanut
butter with Belle and Sebastian, and you may wonder
why I would bother doing such a thing. Well, I want
to. Oh, and Archel said I had to.

Pleasingly, there are “about” 381 results when “peanut
butter” “Belle and Sebastian” are inputted into
google. However, at www.googlefight.com, peanut butter
WHUPS THE ASS of B&S, with almost 9 times as many
references! Personally, B&S will always mean more to
me than PB, but I’m obviously in the minority.

I once used vegetable oil to lubricate the valves on
my trumpet. That was 5 years ago, and I haven’t
touched it since. What do you think’ll be inside the
valves if I try to remove them? And will it have the
viscosity (and crunchiness) of peanut butter? I am
expecting it will.

I might have to resurrect my trumpet. Only problem is,
I used to play it when I lived in a detached house,
and now that I’m in a block of flats it might not be
so much appreciated. Oh, and I gave it up because I
couldn’t reach the high notes. It was okay, though,
cos I took up the euphonium instead. Well, I say okay,
but at least people in my music GCSE class didn’t
actually *laugh* at me during lessons when I was
playing the trumpet. So I gave it up and took up the
flute. Look!

http://www.missprint.org/sinister/picnics/MarkFlute.html

All the old picnic photos look so much fun. I wonder
if we’ll ever see their like again? Of course, if all
the Newcomers and lurkers were to come along to some
sinister gatherings, it would be like a phoenix rising
from the flames. Feel free to email me off list to ask
if anything’s going on, cos we tend to meet up at
least weekly (in London, this is). Ah go on. Sinister
needs its new blood. There may even be some peanut
butter in it for you


Hugglez,
Mark xxx




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