F**zine

Okay, I know none but the faithful few are really interested in this, but the first workshop was so much fun, so inspiring & exciting & generally out of my comfort zone, and you know, my blog yada yada yada...

So now I know that you can widen the remit and it doesn't have to be just about music, it's whatever you fancy, and here are some of the words I scribbled down when they asked us to write down what it was about: music, line drawings, Hackney, photography, graphics, typography, my favourite writers, graffitti/street art around Brick Lane, comic strip? cartoons Penguin covers laundrettes. Don't like the sound of that? Write in & influence it...

• And here is the deal: Rough Trade will a) print up gratis and b) distribute it in the shop.

• So feel free to inundate me. You all are my favourite writers, I've got 2 weeks to do it and have to turn up at the next one with it pretty much finished, ready to print.

• I can put it together, you don't have to pay to get it done AND can advertise your blogs in it, it's a win-win situation!
  

• Or not. No pressure, like. You could just read it, if you prefer - we've already got some magnificent writing from Billy, RoMo and DJ Del - the latter exclusives not to be found on their blogs, oh no.

• Oh, how I wish I could draw like Lucy, though, now more than ever.

• And that I had a name for it. How am I going to tie all that together and be cool and make people want to pick it up, and yet not make people cringe? Naming is the hardest part. *

*Which reminds me of a friend at college, who called his band Pit, just so their first record could be called 'Pitiful'.