hello all. i was going to lurk but it turns out that i'm not very good at it. i felt prompted to write by 2 messages really: alexander's and jarkko's. i don't know if i really have much to say in response to alexander's. i don't think i've ever been called an asshole before. i want to cast my vote for someone deserving, but i'm not sure who is most deserving. if anyone feels they're deserving feel free to write me with your woeful tale and let me know. otherwise i will randomly vote for some lucky person. i think that i need to stop worrying so much about what people think of me and try harder to make everyone else feel special. i think i'm a living self-fulfilling prophecy. i worry so much that people won't like me that i don't say anything and end up looking like a snob so than people don't like me and so on...i don't really agree about the importance of valentine's day. i find it is more of a day for single people to feel bad on than coupled people to feel special on. i ask everyone to join me in a boycott of valentine's and celebrate bitterness day. this is a day on which you get together with all your friends and eat and watch a movie. it is also fun to growl at all the couples on the streets. even couples themselves can participate, growl at other couples or stay in so as not to rub their relationships in the faces of lonely people. as for jarkko's letter that brought tears to my eyes. why can't people be better creatures. we think we are so wonderful b/c we can think yet look at what we do with that capacity. i am ashamed for all humanity. and then i feel badly b/c i am not doing anything to stop hate and ignorance. what can you do about things like that web-site? i don't think it's a case of ignoring tham and they will go away, but if people acknowledge them and publicly discuss it then they are getting free publicity. i feel as though i'm complicit (is that the right word?) no matter what. congrats to ailsa. happy birthday to fiona. -di "i respect those who have faith even though they are ignorant" -hemingway +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+