Bearing up nicely.

It's probably the hottest day of the year out there. I bet Canal Street is chocka.

It's also production week, which means I can't move away from the Mac until I've finished the new issue of outnorthwest. I've spent most of this morning working on the cover. That's it up there. This issue marks the 10th Great British Bear Bash in Manchester. Hence the bears. The BSI theme mirrors one of the videos the guys have produced for the Bash.

I think I like the cover. I've spent too much time looking at it to be honest. So I'm going to stop now. It would be nice to go out for a beer. But I have an article on gonorrhoea to design...

Tasty Bollox

Manchester, where I live, has a reputation for being a big homo-friendly city. What with Canal Street and all that.

Well Canal Street is a bit rubbish, to be brutally frank. The real reason Manchester is the best gay city in the world is a club called Bollox. Third Friday of every month at Legends. Good music, good crowd, good attitude. Bollox has, single-handedly, made me want to go to a gay club again. I was seriously bored and disillusioned with the gay scene until this.

That video up there? I'm in it! I couldn't be more happy about that. That's me in the white t-shirt in the middle and at the very end.

If you've never been. Go.