Janu­ary Read­ing pt 1

My goal this year is to read 100 books, but also regu­larly write small reviews of them. Here’s the first instal­ment, with Alan Garner, Seanan McGuire and Matt Weso­lowski.

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Shef­field Zine Fest 2015

I went up to Shef­field again a few weeks ago for the zine­fest, organ­ised by my friends Bettie and Chella, and stay­ing at Rebecca’s with Tukru. I think there must be some­thing around Shef­field in the Spring that I’m horribly aller­gic to. Whenev­er I go up in March or April I have some kind of horrible reac­tion, yet when I’ve been up in the Autumn, no prob­lem. Once when the bus went past Chester­field, a nearby town, my whole face puffed up like a hamster and no amount of anti-histam­ines would deflate it, and was that way the whole week­end, spon­tan­eously deflat­ing again once I was clear of Derby­shire on the way home. I had no hamster face this time, but sinus pain and a nasty rash on my shoulders and naus­ea. Perhaps I’m aller­gic to steel. Nowhere else in the region seems to give me this prob­lem. (It’s also sad because the zine­fest venue has a slide, and I’ve never been able to go on it in any of the years I’ve been, it not being a good idea when you’re pukey or suffer­ing from balance prob­lems due to a giant swollen face and glands.)

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Shef­field Zine Fest this Saturday

This week­end I’m going up to York­shire to run a table and work­shop at the Shef­field Zine Fest (Face­book event here) and see friends. I’ll have lots of issues of zines from both myself and Char­lotte Richard­son Andrews and some other good­ies, and I’ll be running a work­shop on getting star­ted with zine-making (and my good pal Tukru will be running a hands-on miniz­ine session).

Daniel Mead­ows, Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr

Recently I went to two exhib­i­tions of Brit­ish social photo­graph­ers’ work of the 60s and 70s. Daniel Mead­ows at the Library of Birm­ing­ham, and Only in England- Tony Ray Jones and Martin Parr at the Science Museum. All three photo­graph­ers were contem­por­ar­ies and friends, work­ing on simil­ar topics of noti­cing the arrest­ing and unusu­al in ordin­ary people in every­day settings. All photo­graphs in this entry are from the photo­graph­ers’ own websites.

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