I don’t know what it is about beds, but some of the most bits of furniture have been beds. I saw some nice pieces at Empire on Beaufort when I was there on Arrondissement Day, but this wasn’t one of them. Why? 
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The pieces of wood are actually interesting, but there’s been no attempt to make a coherent work of furniture out of them. If you told me someone had seen a picture of a Lake George Great Camp circa 1900 and thought “I can do that!” and proceeded to do so with duct tape and thumb-tacks and this was the result, I would believe you.
Also? I have no idea what that pillow is trying to accomplish but it needs to be burned before it succeeds.
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I wonder if you have the equivalent of the Jarrah Burl Bartender. The high point of art and craft.
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We have some knotty pine paneled rec rooms and a bunch of wagon wheel chandeliers left over from the time when men were men and cars had fins.
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I have a post I think called oh my aching back that might interest. Someone may link for me. But you haven’t lived until you’ve experienced time measured by a jarrah burl clock.
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Ahhh. Jarrah Burl.
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Here you go.
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Oddly enough, there evidently used to be a fad for that kind of things back in the 1870s in the US — display objects cobbled out of historic implements that were never intended to be used except as “conversation pieces.”
Example here: http://funwithfiber.blogspot.com/2009/04/spinning-wheel-rocker.html
& Sample conversation:
1st lady: Did you see that chair made out of an old spinning wheel Mrs. Henry Stuyvesant-Ogslander III bought at the Philadelphia Exposition?
2nd lady: Yes. She’s obviously gone around the fucking bend.
Both ladies: Hahahahahahahaha!
Etc.
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Wood-paneled cars are one piece of American design which has baffled the rest of the world.
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It’s to facilitate jokes about woodies.
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I thought it was so we could easily identify the character who would eventually outwit the kidnapper/terrorist/greedy lawyer/proprty developer/City Hall.
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Or a Brady.
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I freely admit I have no idea why a wooden car would be at all appealing. File under “covered bridges,” “quilting bees” and “drive-in movies” as “things in America that must at one time have appeared to have made sense.”
See also: Congress; the Senate; the White House.
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Drive ins like whale saving is primarily or hopefully about the sex.
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So is the White House.
Satire.
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There’s a reason why politics are called “Hollywood for ugly people.”
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Our Morris Traveller featured not only beautiful varnished ash, but also these pop-up trafficators. Many’s a time we threw open the doors at the Galaxy.
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I tell a lie. It was the Lakeway, seen here in a fantastic collection of photos.
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Okay. They’ve got to be taking the piss. Right?
“We put together this nostalgic look at something we just bulldozed for tract homes! Enjoy!”
Hahahahaha! Right?
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Welcome to Perth BS.
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I reckon they’re unsuccessfully going for wabi sabi, TBSwaM.
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Fran Rimjob says:
“stop knocking Dullsville: Perth is not cold, wet, and an economic basket case like Germany, and has far fewer Germans.”
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/forget-dullsville-ive-discovered-heaven-on-perth-20101202-18hzo.html
note the interesting use of the word ‘Germaneness’, which I was disappointed to discover has nothing to do with Ms. Greer
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Oh, the Germanity.
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“Fran Rimrod.”
I thought you were joking.
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Well, I think the John Williams song True Blue is spot on too.
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That whole Rimjob piece is like a vibrant, evil twin to TLA’s “Essence” page.
Why is it that spruikers like Rimjob seem so anxious to again and again tell us that Perth is not dull?
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Also, I may be mistaken, but I think “riding a bike” and “taking a nap” are free pretty much anywhere (once you factor out the cost of the bike, at least).
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A friend just quipped: “I wish Rimjob would tell me where the f*&% she gets her acid from, because I wouldn’t some myself.”
Note: Above quip contains a figure of speech and does not imply that Rimjob uses illicit drugs, even if she comes over as such. I mean, all that lifestyle TV viewing would do the trick anyway.
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My mistake. I forgot to also factor in the cost of acid for “taking a nap.”
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they are not free in Germany
fun is taxed over there, as is humour
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Recent audit suggests the German Humour Tax raises up to US$1.56 annually.
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Fair enough. They were dreadful, probably even as roadies for the Models at W.A.I.T.
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I am still not convinced by this argument:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/23/germany.features11
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her English is excellent
see the way she conjugates the verb ‘to cringe’
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Ring job is xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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*snap*
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Mediocre minds think simpler.
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I’m sure I xxxxxxxxdthatbefore
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this is perhaps the only significant contribution that Germany has made to world culture:
http://www.bierbike.de/das-bierbike.html
oh alright, there’s Beethoven, and maybe Goethe. But don’t talk to me about Wagner.
I am looking forward to watching Rimjob trying to throw Barra on the Barbie
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More laughable than the cringeworthy boosterism claiming Perth is a vibrant utopia, is the inevitable torrent of commenters claiming that Perth is, in fact, a dystopian nightmare. Aristotle’s Golden Mean comes to mind.
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Let’s see you get two personal responses from Rimjob Bento :)
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The funny thing is she lists the following things as plentiful in Perth — “good weather,” “laid back lifestyle,” “friendly people” — but left out “stock photography.”
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oh bartender, your insight into Perth is heartwarming, so much so that, I’m sure, regular posters will not mind me re-postingthis
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You want stock photography?
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Speaking of which, they might not get many points for originality, but if timely, I can’t see why this idea couldn’t work in pretty much any city, and why someone with a sharp eye and some time on their hands couldn’t make a killing.
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There’s a version that you can’t use to keep the door open here. Although if this were established in Perth it would be full of Cookster saying ‘Scarborough – magna parts, slightly singed’
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let it be said that I have never dissed Perth’s employment opportunities, weather, beaches, or food. Nor have I disparaged my own house, or the amount of space between me and my neighbours.
I will however admit to occasionally insulting some of its good citizens and public officers. And U2.
they know who they are, cunts.
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And those good things are not tourist things they are living here things. The delusion that Perth should be a tourist Hub must end. There is nothing here for the tourist worth flying 24 hours for.
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interesting that under ‘work’ Fran Rimjob neglected the mention the shortage of quality experienced journos in this town.
It’s so bad that a blow-in from overseas with only two years journalism experience gets her own column:
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/fran-rimrod/5/b75/12b
I see she was ‘online content editor’ for Adultshop for a year. Imagine the pisstaking she must have got over her name in that job
Classy
It’s not just about the shoving
etc. and so forth
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Gold.
There you go Spice girl… try changing your name to Dildo Peeper.
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I note she lives in Freo too. She should know better than to link Fremantle and Perth together.
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seems Fran used to run a swingers website for Bree
here’s one of her articles that the hoydens might enjoy:
http://www.helloarticle.com/demystifying-women-4-types-of-women-and-their-tactics-r6036.htm
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Curiously enough, the captcha for my last comment on the WA Today story was the word “hooken”.
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you still here?
if you hate Perth so much, why aren’t you on the first plane out of here. You should know that criticizing the place you live is not only un-Australian, but maybe be treasonous.
The moment you stop saying how nice the weather and the beaches are, and start whining about inept government, insipid media and the police encroachment on civil liberties, is the point at which the terrorists have won.
it’s all about the lifestyle, dude
get that stick out of your arse and say something nice about the seafood, ferrchrissakes
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Don’t forget Rottnest people. The Jewel in the crown. Am I right Cohen?
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They’re like The Tomorrow People just with sand in their cracks.
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Fo’ shizzle my nizzle.
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Yo.
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Groan. Although I did like “pervious boyfriends”.
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a rendered project home in shades of brown, and a plate of sausages is her idea of heaven?
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I could get behind that. I haven’t been able to see the article you’ve ben talking about but sounds outré.
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I like the cocos shadow ominously clawing across the lawn at the house.
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Roots, hur hur hur. A bed made of roots, hur hur hur. Appealing to the rurotard perhaps?
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well it is all about the rooting.
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If not the roototard.
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Not tonight dear I’m rooted.
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Personally, I think the matching phone, chair and lamp shade is very tasteful and obviously has not been noted as “art” by those less informed.
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Welcome back Groucho. I know when I’m runnin short of jokes I can steal yours.
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And the tell tale signs of an immaculate conception from blue clad virgin…the shirty bed is nothing in comparison.
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I went to super Amart furniture a long time ago everything there is useless and too expensive. If you want cheap modern good furniture go to Ikea its simple.
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