Hello Sinister peeps, A belated happy Santy Claus day to all of you. I hope you all got what you wanted from Santy this year. I was a lucky boy, Santy brought me a certain pretty girl this year. I wanted a puppy, but I think I'm going to keep the girl. At least she doesn't piddle on the carpet. The certain pretty girl wrote:

Now me and Jimmy are back in Wisconsin, I back at work, and Jimmy back to whatever it is he does during the day whilst I'm at my desk>>

She makes me sound like such a bum, doesn't she? Sitting around while my perfect girl works her fingers to the bone...that's me. Mostly I bum around the very, very cold city of Madison, Wisconsin. It's a lovely city, but bloody hell, it's COLD!!!! Sometimes I stare at the clock wistfully and sigh occasionally as the minutes creep closer to 5pm... Well, not really, but it is a long day sometimes. Anyways, enough of me banging on, suffice to say it was a brilliant Christmas and I'm having a wonderful time. A quick and special shout out to the lovely Rachel Fruitloop, and another special shout to the one and only Kirsten Kenyon. A note to certain young men; treat them well or arses and asses will recieve a severe kicking. Who am I kidding? Who couldn't treat such lovely lasses well? Especially when Kirsten does that scruntchy-nosed smile of hers. I almost feel sorry for my Scottish Sinister Brothers soon to be reduced to quivering puddles by unfettered Kirsten Kuteness (trademarked and copyrighted by Kenyon Enterprises of Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Can I give a special shout to ~stine? I vote her post my favorite of the year. Let me refresh your memories: <<i supppose that when the memebers, all 564 of them, of B&S and ________________(insert your favourite "indie" band here) set out to make an album they say "gee whiz, i hope no one buys this, then we arent indie anymore. we will have sold out and we wont have a mailing list of our very own any longer">> That's a thing of beauty, that is. It's obviously wrong-headed though, I mean, next she'll be saying that musicians should create music that gives them pleasure and have fun instead of bowing to the demands of obsessive fans hovering over their computers waiting to send off angry emails that make the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons seem sane; "WORST SINGLE EVER!!!" On a similar rant: Listing to NPR this morning I heard some poor man banging on with rightious indignation over just how poorly written the Harry Potter books were and how he had a book he'd written called "Stories for Intelligent Children" or somesuch and how JK Rowling couldn't write and blah, blah, fucking blah. Besides the obvious fact that the man sounded like he was suffering from semen-poisoning (a deadly affliction where the semen backs up the spinal cord and applies pressure onto the brain, a horrible malady that can cause individuals to act like stuck up twats (errr, no pun there folks)), the poor fellow failed to realize something: He's older than twelve. In other words; his opinion on the Potter books doesn't mean shit. When some eight year old starts writing papers on the hidden feminist/communist meaning in Beowulf and how it all relates to Jungian archtypes, semen poison man can start mouthing off on Harry Potter, until then he should just get over himself. It's a shame that people like that feel the need to piss on others happiness, but there you go. Ahh, I see by the clock on the wall that my time on the coffee house computer is almost up, and so I have to cut this short. Best wishes to the lot of you, and for anyone who's lonely or sad or tired or whatnot; It gets better. It won't just happen. It won't just drop out of the sky, but there's better things out there. Sometimes you have to fight tooth and nail for them, and you'll get bruises and cuts and get knocked down and bloodied... ...but sometimes you can kick your way out of the bad places and into a good place. Stay Sinister and Strong... Jim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+