Bar Lazy
Yes I’m constructing an outdoor bar out of an old palette, wood scraps and bamboo garden stakes. What of it? I’m not sure if it puts me in Things Bogans Like category. Do they like outdoor bars? In any...
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Pete F found the worst ever ute in Adelaide. This one will never be topped.Also by Pete F. Medina. The small print says “How’s it hangin”.Nate from Abandomed Old People’s Homes & stuff saw a goon...
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Ralf Hebecker, the German designer/academic behind Ugly New Zealand, tells me that German has a word for our kind of activity – Nestbeschmutzer “fouling ones own nest”. he has produced a lovely...
View ArticleHold the front page, we’ve got nothing!
Stop the presses, we’ve got someone who didn’t see anything!. Jeezus, I did say I wasn’t going to do any more West Stories, but come one, two dishonest loads of bollocks on the front page of Saturday’s...
View ArticleOn the banks of the Bofo
Commenter Rob F asks why no Bofo action? Well, as I explained, I didn’t go, because I went to Fremantle to buy fixer to facilitate my magnificent return to film photography. I was offered a chance to...
View ArticleGoon Saloon
I’m sure that sociologists of the future (aka FC’s) will see this blog as covering a critical turning point in this city, where Perth started changing from widely regarded architectural, cultural,...
View ArticleI eat Jew
By Bento. East Perth. Anti semitism feels a bit old hat these days. The kids are all hating muslims and smokers now aren’t they? I wonder what happened to old Jew Burner btw? Transport didn’t respond...
View ArticleThe Bourne Legacy
I suppose there’s no need to keep holding this willy after this morning. Different artist though I think. I guess once you’ve done one then what’s the difference? The difference between zero and one is...
View ArticleThe streets of this paradise are paved with swans…
Simon G. saw these WA 150th paving slabs, removed presumably during the city development upheaval, sitting behind wire mesh at the City’s Osborne Park depot. She -Ra says that they wil definitely be...
View ArticlePerth merch
Summer’s comin’. You know it’s so when you see these beauties at City of Perth reception. Thongs at Council House? Yes. They’re also selling beachtowels (see price list below), and they don’t even have...
View ArticleExecutive Committee
A meeting of the executive committee for “Keeping Perth Walls Blank.” A branch of the Illuminati.
View ArticleErasing Memory
Ahem, Lisa Scaffidi, She-Ra Princess of Power, long may you reign etc…What has happened to the plaque announcing the opening of the Cultural Centre by Brian Burke? Clearly seen here seven or eight...
View ArticleOutrage Sunday 222 the price of fame
That’s easy for this whyteboard in Shenton Park to say. Free to do what? Free of what? ‘Grants me years of sickness and fever/make me sleepless for months at a time./Take away my child and my lover/and...
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