Sinister: sad and sweaty

[ruth allan]

I'm checking my mails in a way that I havent done for ages, eyes peeled 
for news from sinister. Since honey posted this sad news about a 
missing member, I've suddenly felt connected to these terrible events 
in london and I guess what hits home is that it could have been any one 
of us UK listees. We've all travelled the tube, and all been on the bus 
and as so many have said, it feels like an attack on us all, and thats 
incredibly difficult to deal with, unbearably so, I imagine, for those 
close to Liz and our sympathies go out to you all who are directly 
affected.

I've been lurking as usual, waiting for someone to say something to 
make sense of all this I suppose, and thats probably why I've been 
checking my mails so keenly, and waiting up for Newsnight,  but no one 
can fix it can they? I guess life goes on, so today, after faffing 
about at home for a while, I went out to a meeting in a hotel and saw 
Terry Christian having one (a meeting that is) at the next table. This 
made me smile. The high point of the entire day (which was otherwise 
filled with time wasting antics, such as: talking to the pregnant girl 
at work about all her relatives names, ever, in an attempt to deduce 
which might make the most suitable third name, and emailing my male 
boss about his preferred beauty products. This line of conversation was 
quite fruitful actually, as it turns out he buys all his cosmetics from 
QVC. What are the chances of that then?! Isn't QVC completely frowned 
upon as the epitomy of uncool? Seems not, according to him, QVC is 
where folks too busy to shop shop. You do, in fact learn a great deal 
from wasting time it seems). Anyhow, my favourite moment of the day was 
listening to Dirty Dream Number two on my way back to work as I 
remembered Terry on the Word back in the early 90s... for those too 
young to remember and I hope thats most of you, Terry was this terrible 
mancunian host on a  teen show in the UK called 'The Word'. It was 
abysmal, but launched the careers of some semi famous music related 
folks like... Jo Whiley (she was the music booker I believe) and Mark 
Lamarr, a well known stand up comedian and radio presenter. Terry's 
great skill was being completely unaffected by all the nonsense that 
went on around him, like L7 a rrriot grrrl act showing their fannies, 
or mark lamarr eating toenails... ah the joys. anyhow. These ramblings 
surely are too irreverent for such a sad hot  night in the UK, so I'll 
leave this here, but I guess I just wanted to say hey sinister, hope 
your okay.
ruthx

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