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Urban Memes — Your Brumicana Guide

A piece on the bits of Birmingham’s history that play on the mind: “It’s a coming of age. Our society doesn’t cast you into the forest naked to kill a wild boar anymore, it makes you live in either soulless or fetid accommodation and hunt from the Tesco Value range. Having gone through that, as an elder of the Brum tribe I can now reveal the secrets of our race-memory, an induction more powerful than anything involving smoking those funny leaves. All cities have what we call urban myths, in fact most cities have the same ones: the niteclub guy stabbing people with HIV-invected needles who left notes in the ’90s, amphibians in the sewers and that “regeneration” is best served by the blandest of culture. But myths aren’t true, what I’m going to impart are more urban memes, they dance round the edge of Legend but are all true. ish.” read the rest in the latest issue of Fused (online here).

Johnny Foreigner on the Internet

Fused interview with Alexei Johnny Foreigner on why Brum's broke (in the stupid "broken Britain" sense).

The makers of the spangly Fused magazine have gone all What’s On-y. Which is good, because: a) What’s On was never very cool, & b) it’s shut down. Area is the new “pocket sized” (or A6 in grown-up terms) “pocket guide” to what’s going on in and around Brum. It’s going to be monthly, although the first issue is a July/August double issue as “everyone’s on holiday and not much goes on”. It looks lovely. It’s got listings and writerly things from top people such a Danny Smith (whose new “wordcast” you should check out). It looks like this: And for those of you not hip enough (myself included) to be anywhere it’s distributed the first issue is online (and I link directly to page 18 because I wrote it, and I’m vain).

Fused – Student Issue – How to avoid students when drinking

An article I wrote about "how to avoid students" in Brum — for a magazine aimed at them.

I’d rather see Dave Lee Travis play Macbeth

As a city with three universities, Birmingham is about to be hit with thousands of new students. The helpful people at Fused have even done a special issue just for them to try to get them up to speed on all things Brum and beyond: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! You can see the whole damn thing online in a nice looking Flash interface that I haven’t got the hang of yet. It might be handy to see what students like these days, in case you need to infiltrate them for any reason.

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Posts Tagged ‘ Fused ’

Urban Memes — Your Brumicana Guide

Johnny Foreigner on the Internet

021 in the Area

Fused – Student Issue – How to avoid students when drinking

I’d rather see Dave Lee Travis play Macbeth

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