Good afternoon.

Now that we appear to have launched the Behatted webcomic to a small but dedicated audience of about twenty to thirty people (tell your friends!), I thought I’d try and build something down here in the lesser-seen underside of the page, aside from lo-content promotional whiffle. So this is The Weekly Hat, a low-budget, somewhat anglo-centric blog-ramble-magazine (Can I coin the term “blogazine”? ….. No, apparently it’s already on Urban Dictionary, so I can’t…) about whatever the hell has been going on, filtered through whatever lens is required to make it interesting to me, and by extension, to you. (Or so I hope to God…)

In our first thrilling issue…

• Main feature: The collapse of the British government… Is there any real alternative?
• Our Fictional Guest Columnist is Swine Flu, meditating on the fleeting nature of modern celebrity.
• I care even if you don’t! New Brendan Benson album!
• Media And Stuff: New series of House! New Batman! I couldn’t afford to go the cinema this week!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week:  The most self-explanatory regular feature name since “Have the glaciers melted yet?”, written by a car exhaust pipe.
• Next week: Usually with topical writing, it’s hard to predict what’ll be in the next issue, but we laugh in the face of conventional “wisdom”.

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