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Friday 1st August 2008


The Zinefest last Saturday was a lot of fun and made me want to put more effort in to selling stuff, just so I can stock Stuart Murray and Olly Paterson.

Stuart is a postman, a teddy boy and a chronicler of Glasgow's rough pubs in In Pubs. I'm sure he is going to be a big star. I'm not sure if he thinks what he does has anything to do with comics, but I do.

Anyway, tonight I found myself stuck in Waverley station for an hour and decided that I deserved a pint. I bought my drink, but all the tables were at least partially occupied. I sat next to John, who was just like someone out of Stuart's book. At first I was a bit scared, when he asked me if I was of the Rangers persuasion, but when I told him I worked in the NHS he warmed to me ("I love Gordon Brown").

I couldn't always tell what he was saying so I can't really document his crazy, booze addled conversation, but I was reminded of how much time I spent talking to scary, bonkers people in pubs when I was younger.