The Filthy Guide to the Edinburgh Fringe: A Helpful Journey Through the First Level of Fringe Hell

soul-crushing experiences that most of us have to deal with in order to pay our own way in life. The inspiration for launching my

in a godless universe, the abject horror of meaningless existence is too much for any individual to bear.

the act of urban wandering, the spirit of political radicalism, allied to a playful sense of subversion and governed by an inquiry into the methods by which we can transform our relationship to the urban environment.

My self-appointed mission: to think and feel my way into our darkening future, trace out the pathways before us, game out our options, and along the way — amidst my own splutterings of hope and despair — take good notes and draw a few maps that might be useful to all of us.

themes overlapping and intertwining: creativity, collaboration, belief, doubt, loss, grief, reinvention, tradition, defiance, the endurance