American Myths: In the Valley of Elah, National Treasure 2 – Book of Secrets

May 31, 2008

Movie review: In the Valley of Elah, National Treasure 2 – Book of Secrets

Video stores make me prickly. Whenever I enter one I feel like I’m wearing a sign that says; “LOSER: he doesn’t have anything better to do with his life than watch television.” Gawking at box covers with other plebs just adds to the overbearing sentiment of mindless consumer subservience. And later, to add insult to injury and complete the victimisation process, you have to RETURN the goddamn thing. Read the rest of this entry »


Hedgehog Happenings

May 30, 2008

From the ABC. Yeah, yeah, I know that the link with Perth is tenuous, well, non-existent actually. But it was too good to pass up.


Art Menagerie: The Horn Collection

May 23, 2008

Hans Arkeveld, I think

The Horn Collection, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries

Bunbury and art. Strange bedfellows perhaps, but Perthetic art snobs could do worse than take the trip south to view a sampling of the Horn Collection now showing at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries (until June 15th). Read the rest of this entry »


Gomi, Gomi, Gone

May 20, 2008

Pourquoi tout le mauvais art est-il si grand ?

Curbside Scavenging Report: Nedlands

The astonishingly successful gomi hunting jaunt we undertook in Floreat a month back had us well primed for a curbside scavenging expedition to Nedlands this week. Just thinking about the unpricelessful junk that awaited us in the rich-bastard suburb made our gomi glands fully engorged. Read the rest of this entry »


Yo, Biatch! Where Do I Pay My Parking Fine?

May 18, 2008

Recruitment section of Saturday\'s West

Tip for job hunters who might want to work for the local council, sorry, I mean “Team Stirling”: Get ink declaring your allegiance to your council and wear a pair of red heels.


Get Real

May 17, 2008

Garry Pumfrey

What a funny old fellow is Pumfrey,
He paints all manner of shite,
He likes his Belgian linen,
And Kwinana’s his favourite place,
Which is hardly so very surprising,
He’s a really obsessed detailist,
What a painterly fellow is Pumfrey,
Pumfrey the factory loving realist!

Terraform II, Turner Galleries

Garry Pumfrey’s new exhibition of photorealistic works, Terraform II (Turner Galleries, until 14 June), delivers a deliciously tart rejoinder to the mindless boomtown rhetoric that Western Australians are currently immersing themselves in. Read the rest of this entry »


Beach Bumsex

May 15, 2008

Never mind the quality, feel the width...

Thanks (?) to Shaz for this pic, which she reckons depicts a fellow auto-sodomising at Scarborough beach while eating a Mrs Mac’s pie. We prefer to believe it’s a new CoastWatch initiative.


Local Police Now Targeting: Prince Albert

May 13, 2008

Er, your ear?

This somewhat disquieting bumper sticker was sighted in Scabs, and one has to ask, whatever happened to discretion? Isn’t part of the attraction (?) of an intimate (one would guess) piercing the fact that only you and your lover know about it?

When did it become desirable to advertise your genital modifications? And perhaps most vexing of all, does the person displaying this sticker really want people at the lights to bellow out their best guesses? “Hey luv, my mate reckons it’s your clitoral hood but I’m punting on yer labia majora. Giss a Captain Cook!”


Iron Deficiency

May 11, 2008

Talk to the hand...

Movie Review: Iron Man

Firstly, I’d like to congratulate Innaloo Megaplex Cinemas for managing to show this film without something going wrong. We went and saw Deception (don’t bother) last week and they managed to get the aspect ratio wrong. For the first 20 minutes of the movie it was like watching it through a slit. Finally, someone in the audience toddled off to find a spotty teenager to come and fix it. Some clunking sounds came from the projection booth and suddenly half the movie was projected onto the ceiling of the cinema. It stayed like this for 10 minutes before someone again went off to find a staff member. Finally, after half-an-hour, they got it right and the audience broke into rapturous applause. It was like being at Cannes. Read the rest of this entry »


Agent Orange Strikes Balga Tree

May 7, 2008

Orange tree on Wanneroo Road

Thanks to Rusty for this contribution of a tree stricken by agent orange; well, bits of the tree, anyway. Read the rest of this entry »


The Thoroughly Modern Circus

May 5, 2008

Roll Up, roll up...

The kids dug it

“If it was not for the circus coming to town most people and children would not know what the animals looked like and all you animal do-gooders out there thanks a lot now a circus is not the same without animals as you all know when you were all kids I bet you could not wait for the circus to come to town.”
Post by Kenneth to animalactivism.org

“A whole seven incidences of animal cruelty in 11 years is surely a very small percentage. I think, what with the Tower of London’s history, for example, is that you folks must have more important moral work to do than worry about circus animals. And I think you should get about doing it. Mind your own business, surely that will keep you busy enough.”
Post by Anonymous to animalactivism.org

Quite. But with animal acts in circuses having effectively been abolished, what is there to fill the gawking vacuum left by the disappearance of the mangy lions and deranged elephants? Read the rest of this entry »


Perthetic Pics From The Past

May 2, 2008

A Big Shaft

I remember playing on this prodigious Karri log in Kings Park. What happened to it? Woodchips?
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