When The Worst of Perth started in 2007, did we expect that things would be better a decade and a half later? Did we even think about it, or did we just live and make love in the moment, shoving lotuses up our arses? Or whatever you do with them. Eat them possibly, who knows. You lotus your way, I’ll lotus mine yeah?
Here is a spot in Inglewood that I covered in 2008. Could we really have expected that things would get this bad? Imagine, even the predictions of a Cartridge World were wildly optimistic. From a derelict if kitschly charming Chinese restaurant, that became briefly an illegal indoor skate venue. Now there are two fucking murals nearby, including that leaf (or possibly vagina) painter AND a pandemic testing site. No doubt on site dogging after 6pm! I wish I could find the photos, but there were expensive planters with trees added to this maelstrom of worsts announced by some politician. Where are they? Burnt and tagged one expects. At least the TAB is still there as an island of sanity.
Meanwhile the sky is brown from bushfires, and someone informs me that there is a website called Perth is Ok. Jeezus. I mean talk about your vote of confidence. Perth is Okaaaay . I guess. Look at this scene. It’s fucking not OK. And now I know thousands of doggers, and nostalgia lovers flock to The Worst of Perth, for a taste of the past, even though it has been closed for years. But this is now and this is not Ok.
The Worst of Perth 
I never knew how much i needed TWoP in this lockdown until now. Waving my kylie and chiaking furiously
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How’s about where the (from memory) The Peninsula Hotel (?) on Guildford Rd Mt Lawley was that burnt down in like 2000 use to be – still fenced off – from memory John K Watts owned it.
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Never forget the Wattsie :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Watts
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The history of Perth goes on, It needs a journal of record for this majestic city.
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That adjective is reserved for whales, Ron, and whales only.
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Yes Snuff there is something of the leviathan or cetacean about Perth. Deceased of course. John Curtin, writing as Vigilant, expressed a very low opinion of Perth’s intellectual life. Plus ça change.
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Dead whale. Who can ever forget the smell of Cheyne’s Beach in Albany ?
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