Last night (probably) in the Urban Orchard, after bouncy Stonehenge. This must have been what it was like for prehistoric cave-dwellers, watching the sun set: will it rise again? “The lamps are going out,” I wept into my $9 pale ale in a plastic cup. Krazy Kym knew what I meant. And, as if to mark the moment, there was a spew waiting for us when we got on the train. An outraged older bloke called Transperth and demanded someone deal with it, but they missed us at Claisebrook.
And the cringe is back on. Anon., Poor Lisa et al have already discussed this. Is it really news, and do they get all excited in Toronto or Cape Town or Dayton, OH, when something nice is written about them?
The Worst of Perth 
“To go to Western Australia and not experience its beach scene — a 25-minute subway ride from the city — is akin to visiting Los Angeles and shunning Malibu.”
I assume his subway is a train. Perhaps the Manhatt’s Barkeep can advise.
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I hate to say it but I believe the Times and Perth are both the target of a monumental piss take.
The author (a woman) is best known for academic work and documentaries that are, shall we say, slightly at odds with the content and tone of the article. If the byline were “Angela Davis” that might give you some idea.
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That’s hard to believe. You been on the complimentary Howling Wolves BSWAM ?
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When am I not?
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I’m at Caves House in Yallingup BSWAM which is a most pleasant building that would be proud to be found rotting in the HRV.
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I love that place.
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My parents had their honeymoon here in 1962 I think so may really be going back to my roots.
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Their roots, surely.
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Mine.
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I was calling pranked quite early.
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Weird thing is her normal oeuvre seems to be painfully earnest. I’m calling delusional, but not a deliberate prank
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Pulled?
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You might be right, but my contacts at CUNY are mystified. As am I – for a woman writing a book on the practice of “passing” to care about hipster heaven (whether in Perth or Brooklyn) suggests a near Jekyll/Hyde divide.
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I’m amazed she didn’t do a review of Perth reggae bands. Now that’s a subject that’s been long neglected.
Click to access Dreisinger_Baz.pdf
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I’m sure New Yorkers get equally excited whenever Stephen Scourfield writes about the Lower East Side.
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The City that Almost Never Sleeps.
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The City That Often Sleeps Behind The Wheel.
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The City That Goes to Bed at a Sensible Hour
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The writer found Perth that exciting and that was without even going to the Hyde Park Festival? Where (spoiler alert): you can get a vegetable peeler as seen on TV; dude playing panpipes that evokes… Fremantle in the 1980s; home made everything from our very own Duncraig; Falun Gong say they are being persecuted; and youths performing Michael Jackson routines not seen anywhere in the world for fifteen years; and carnies (whither go carnies the rest of the year?). Drowning in vibrancy.
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Can’t wait.
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Casual dress day on the subway?
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All us hipsters are in teh thongs!
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Its hard to distinguish where the spew ends and the seat pattern begins.
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I think that is the idea. And why Transperth didn’t go with the cream leather.
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It’s not long before the faeces flinging mankey monkeys start, as they always do, on the world’s leading mobilopolis (well until you hit a traffic jam).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-03/perth-slips-in-rankings-for-liveability/5294728
You can’t be a winner without the loosers taking potshots at you.
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Sorry to piss on this feel good parade of Perth but a nice paid piece written by the City of Perth and the WA Tourism Board which is written for Perth people if you look closer. If you noticed all the WA news outlets grabbed this with gusto and no one else did anywhere…
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Er, I am pretty sure the person writing it was not paid by the City of Perth or the WA Tourism Board.
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