OK, so this seems to be “what John gets up to whilst drunk” week! I am slightly concerned, but also very excited that Gyrus has started a blog. On the one hand this is fantastic because the G-man has been DOING things for years and years and years and so I have no doubt that his blog will be excellent.

However, I do need to watch myself a little when the lager frenzy has taken hold (I bullied him into it whilst drunk! I really laid into his excellent site! I am…. the bad man). Next time it could be you…

Some good bits already about the connections back to zine culture and I do think that people who have gone through the discipline of doing small press publications have a leg up with this stuff because they are used to be being focussed and disciplined about it. (which sounds very stern, no?).

However it CAN also be good to get a load of stuff thrown up there if people have the interests and personalities to carry it off (i.e. Luka over at Heronbone and many others I’ve linked to in the past) or journos like Penman and Reynolds who obviously use their blogs as an escape from having their work hacked about by sub-editors.