This also outraging: the Morley markets look strangely similar to the good Doctor’s last book. Surely a market would be better off looking more like Sendak?

Let me finish with something sure to enrage the Flangemaster. Seen in Nedlands, and not worst! Good advice for all in these troubled Gina-embiggened times.

Went to Rottnest during the week: it’s still there. Seats over a bit cramped, though, as you admire “just water and more water”.

Did see esky action at Cott, though. Was not tempted to help self.

Say hello to my friend Yogi BarleyMaxMan, cereal superhero with the wired and gaint digestive tract.

BarleyMaxMan sez: “The cold hard facts of chronic diseases in Australia highlight the need for practical, effective diet and lifestyle solutions that can help lift the burden of chronic disease impacting so heavily on our Nation.”

But some think BarleyMaxMan’s endosperm is “somewhat disappointing…a little dry”.

Searching for Messrs Hawthorn and Hamilton, I also came across this marvellous piece from the Sydney Morning Herald which covers it for some reason. Has many wonderful worsts on the page, including Penfolds Sweet Sherry for 95c, a two stone cat and the fight for late night trading in Melbourne 1971. All in all, the sundial is actually not bad, even now. Stacks up well against the Smiths’ hideous version down at the waterfront, which may be bigger, but may also be world’s shittiest sundial. Another search for Elwyn Hawthorn is even more intriguing, turning up this from a UK art online site, saying Kalgoorlie 1962. Once again, that’s not bad either. The same Elwyn? Who knows? How many are there? The same one who also wrote Atheism for Survival? Whoa.

Wait, the painter is him. He’s got stuff everywhere. Pretty amazing dude really.

The artists’ impressions were very promising, and the CSM website had all the facts: “Coventry Square Markets are one of Australia’s premier markets. Situated adjacent to Centro Galleria in Morley, the markets will be a veritable mix of restaurants, cafes and specialty shops. It will be a focal point for both local and overseas tourists, a meeting place for families, friends and a cultural experience for all.”

The media know a good story when they see it, and in 2010 confident predictions were being made CSM would generate “more vibrancy”. And it was thus: this report in the paper of record quoted the developer, a successful businessman, saying the project would “actually dwarf” something in Melbourne.

The art engages the eye before you’re inside.

These superb friezes are a feature throughout the markets.

The Friendly Industrial Arching Shed-ist Connecting Outside style is like a European cathedral.

Lots of stuff to buy, including boozies.

And dolphins.

And exotic fruit. Everyone involved is to be commended and our commercial designer associate needs to have a good hard look at herself.

I hope the taps were fixed at BoFo. There was a lot on yesterday: Bento parading his Movember at BoFo, Shazza’s boat at a shark-ravaged Rotto, me making an upside-down pear gingerbread cake in my gourmet preparation station, Kim Kardashian’s hubby lawyering up, and The Control Paradigm Workshop:

Do you wonder why events in Iraq over 5000 years ago still influence the world today?
Are you interested in being “free” and want to know what that means?
Do you have an interest in law and how to use it?
Do you struggle with “the system” but are not quite sure what that system is?
Do you have an interest in controversial even forbidden history?
Are you interested in the political elites? Do you want to “fix the taps”?
How do all these tie together?

For a $200 donation you could have been at a Perth Truth Seekers workshop with Rob Halford:

There isn’t much about what happened – or happens – in Iraq in Candy, which is why she may be in a Shenton Park flower bed:

Also in Shenton Park they are either rehearsing for the zombie apocalypse, protecting their verges, or erecting the barricades:

It’s enough to leave you feeling as flat as a squashed hat on Waratah Avenue in Dalkeith: