Yes, ladies and dogs and birds and the odd OBA - we're BACK! :D
Just when you'd begun to despair...
First things first:
We have a proper newsletter! Again!! For the first time in a hideous span of months!!! It's brilliant and packed to the gills with good stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!...but it is, um, a trifle large (i.e., picture-laden to somewhere in the vicinity of 15MB) to upload to the site directly as is. Soooooooo, a couple of options for ya till I determine how to laden our site with pictures:
1. If you want the newsletter as it was meant to be seen, e-mail me at galateabyron (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I THINK that's the proper phrasing when one wants to evade the spammers.) This will not only get you said glorious comeback issue but will also effectively add you to our mailing list for future issues, interest polls, OBA film fests (which currently means takeaway munchies in my living room while Doctor Who is on ), Convent ribbon-cuttings, and so much more.
2. If you're just not that into us yet (you will be........you WILL be........), click on the left-hand link that says Current Issue and you'll get the text-laden edition of the thing. Little enough eye-candy, I fear, but copious amounts of Your Editor's carefully phrased drivel.
- The new litmus test: are you really a Spinster? (If not, we'll tell you how to become one!)
A whimsical monthly guide to Spinster fashion trends! (You wanna look like an OBA - or an OBA on-screen love interest?)
The Most Beautiful OBAs in the World! Yes, I know we have these all the time, but this issue takes 2007 in review and waxes poetical over the 15 men who made us sigh, swoon, and generally get picked on a lot by co-workers and older siblings! Includes three witty profiles by Your Editor's sister and everyone's favorite guest columnist, plus a special drool-worthy profile of the (Matt Damon my arse!) Sexiest Man Alive!
Cheeky reviews of all your favorite media (the ever-popular e-Pix)! And of course:
What Lucky Bloom (Who?) wants more than anything in the whole world... (Maybe...food? My daddy back?
)
And as if that weren't enough...
In true teen fantasy film form: everything you know is about to change - starting with this here website! You don't have any Spinster role models to look up to? We've got a handy guide to recognizing your saints coming to the site in the immediate future! (Lest that sound excruciatingly dull, coming from the folks who want to open a network of capital-C Convents all over the globe, allow me to hint at the company you'll be keeping: fairytale heroines, strong classic females, and the odd sci-fi sidekick...) You've been baying for a Handbook? It's in the works! And if we're all very, very lucky, I just might conjure a way to archive past issues on the site so you can share them with fellow and future Spinsters...
But that's not all! In addition to our sad and oft-times neglected Yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spinstersandlunatics - the original cyber-Convent), I've recently launched an official Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14828919790)! Facebook is a huge new dimension of our cultural media, and like a good Tungusic Jurchen, I intend to take it over as well! If you're on Facebook, join us now! If not, what the devil are you waiting for?!? I'm creating anglophiliac flair exclusively for us - as we speak, no less!!!
