Weekend Worstoff 218

Posted on September 15, 2012 by AHC McDonald

New Asia Beat BTW.
As (thank god) Freel Thunder soon to be The Cock-Burners have finally been vanquished, Pete F saw that Joe’s Cakes seems to be afraid they’ll be coming to West Perth. Yikes, You wouldn’t wish that on any suburb.
Sexy McHot Buns  saw DJ Cornflake at Murdoch, unsure whether it’s graffiti or just bad graphic design.
Golden 1 saw this horse in Melbourne and declared it not worst.
And Tristan H seems to want to start a competition for “Most motherfucking” palm tree in Perth. (Category Cotton).

Posted in weekend worstoff, worst graphic design, worst tree | 10 Comments

Foul yourself

Posted on September 14, 2012 by AHC McDonald

Ai Ya! You have foul yourself isn’t it? Is this down to earth West Aussie bore water stain? Seems a little selective. Sexy McHot Buns saw this in Carabooda.

Posted in worst art, worst public art, worst sculpture | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Swallow Bar review

Posted on September 13, 2012 by AHC McDonald

We went to the much awaited Swallow Bar for a real visit, and here’s what it is like. The front section is quite cute. The booths look pretty good and it’s all nicely done, but the place is just too damn small. It’s not somewhere you could reliably make a date to meet someone, because the chances are high that there won’t be anywhere to sit. And there’s not even anywhere to stand while you do wait for somewhere to sit. You can’t reserve a booth or table either. It is about 50% too small for a small bar.

Maylands is not really big enough that there is anywhere else to go if the place is full, (The gun shop or White Eagle Travel notwithstanding,) so I think some people will be put off making a special journey there because of this. Everyone seemed very friendly, (despite some bloke being in there wearing thongs) and the atmosphere was nice and those who got a seat appeared to be having a good time, but I would probably only go there again if I was walking past and looked in to see that there was somewhere to sit or stand, or if you could make a reservation.

The food was ridiculously expensive, but that’s Perth in general, so I was fine with that, but if you pay the best part of $30 for 4 prawns (or was it 3?) without much else, I do expect not to have to take the shells off myself, especially when it’s in a garlic sauce. I would have valued it at about $15. Also, it doesn’t open for lunch except Sundays or breakfast. It’s more like a cafe where knobheads wearing lycra might park bikes and drink a coffee on a Sunday morning, and I would bet that that is how it will end up.

So, it was a kind of OK experience, and I’m glad it’s there, but it really needs to break into the space of one of the shops next door. I’d rather have a decent Beef Wellington and a pint of Landlord at 5 Bar for not much difference in price, which if there is a queue outside is near to plenty of other places you could go.

Posted in worst pub/hotel/design | Tagged , , , , , , | 74 Comments

The final straw – the final solution

Posted on September 12, 2012 by AHC McDonald

This perhaps goes a little beyond passive agressive and strays into the grey area of criminal menaces and dog murdering. But I guess that’s West Leederville for you. I only wish it could have been Allen Park.  8 count ’em 8 baits, each more fiendish than the last. The first creates in your shitting dog a sense of ennui and its spine will crack under the spasms of nostalgia mixed with a little sadness. The second is a powerful canine laxative…perhaps I should have thought that one through a little better –  the third pure curare. No-one will ever know the cause – apart from the sign I have written explaining that I am poisoning dogs. The fourth…
Auteured – the submission not the sign, by Councillor Matt Buckels, who, if I am any judge will be Mayor and then opposition leader within 5 years.
I’m assuming that this knobhead will be tracked down by the police within about ten minutes.

Posted in worst of perth | Tagged , , , , , | 56 Comments

Knavery

Posted on September 11, 2012 by AHC McDonald

“Dr. Peter Harries is opening a Kabaret Restaurant in Perth on November 23 in time for the Christmas party festive season. Remember his Knight Klub, La Tenda, Romano’s, Dirty Dick’s theatre restaurants?  Well, at last a place to dine with great entertainment and, even, a snugly dance or two?   All for, just $55 per person, fully licensed.
 The Knight Klub Kabaret Klub will be inside The Royal Thai Restaurant 370 Oxford Street, Leederville.  He is available for interviews if you wish.”

I’m kind of thinking he will be available for interviews even if you don’t wish. For those who were wondering why Dr. Peter Harries (rumoured to be Peter Waltham’s grandfather) hasn’t been here making a dick of himself for a while, it’s because he has been painting it black. Literally. And yes, he’s persisting with the headband. I don’t remember his Ace of Knobs nightclub, but I do remember La Tenda (it means THE Tenda btw) and definitely remember Dirty Dicks. Not really anything to boast about. I like the advice to google Peter Harries for the website as twop comes up number 3 in such a search

Posted in multiple worsts | Tagged , , , | 36 Comments

New York Tableau

Posted on September 10, 2012 by AHC McDonald

Many worsters are spread over the planet at the moment. Orbea sends in a New York tableau, proving that Noo Yoik style shits in the mouth of perth cock graffiti. Adding a coffin and a shoe with penis into the mix! Nup. Would never happen here. In fact the shoes are magnificent. They’ve even got glass bricks workin’.

Posted in multiple worsts, worst fashion, worst graffiti | Tagged , , , , , | 20 Comments

Outrage Sunday 69 overwhelming evidence

Posted on September 9, 2012 by rottobloggo

Krazy Kym bought a glue gun at Spotlight while I inspected the exterior. The books on the table of this woman who has it all are Images of Rock & Roll and Hollywood Portraits: Classic Scene Stills 1939-51.

It’s a long way from the Geordie Bay toilets.

We stayed in the coxwain’s cottage in Thomson Bay, which had several homely touches.

I’m grateful to be back on the mainland, though, as I can attend a big event on Teh Arrondiss this week on September 11. More than 50 boffins will be in a fillum talking about Truth, and “…the fraud of NIST and how the scientific method should have been applied and acknowledges the overwhelming evidence of high temperature incendiaries in all dust samples of the WTC.” Yes.

This is 23-year architect Richard Gage, AIA, who will be in the fillum where “high-rise architects and structural engineers layout the evidence in the features of the destruction of these three high-rises that point inevitably to explosive controlled demolition”. Don’t forget the nanothermites!

 

Posted in Uncategorisable Worsts, worst people, worst sign | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Weekend Worstoff 217

Posted on September 8, 2012 by AHC McDonald

There was a vigil at the Guildford Hotel. Is that place not a Dan Murphy yet? Hope Outrage was there. The temptation of a pankake might have moved him. As seen by The Colour H.
Pete F sends in this from Fremantle Sailing Club sans comment.
And M saw the schizophrenia that is Perth driving.
Worst well.

Posted in weekend worstoff, worst sign | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

Punk Rock Belmont

Posted on September 7, 2012 by AHC McDonald

I hope those punks are using that yellow bin to recycle their Melbourne Bitter cans. And word. Lattice.

Posted in Uncategorisable Worsts | Tagged | 12 Comments

Feed me children

Posted on September 6, 2012 by AHC McDonald

From Eden Hill and Basso. By Suburban Ninja, who also gives a teaser to council bumblings trying to create characters Bas n Dean to represent teh hood. They apparently were created, but no images remain. I’m sure Don Smith would have been inside a Bas ‘n Dean costume at some local fair.
10.14 Suite of Characters and Messages for Promoting Projects and Events of the Town of Bassendean (Ref: INFM/INTPROP/1 – Bob Jarvis, CEO)

APPLICATION

Council’s consideration of a suite of “Mascot” messages based on the Bas ‘n’ Dean theme for use on signage and reports across a range of Council activities.

BACKGROUND

At its Ordinary Meeting held on 28 November 2008, Council resolved the following:

“MOVED Cr Gangell, Seconded Cr Pule, that Council receives a summary report on the feasibility of developing a Town Mascot i.e. Billie the Builder to promote capital works projects within the Town.”

The CEO has had a suite of themed messages produced, not only for Capital Works signage, but also for a range of other Council projects and activities including:

* Environmental Projects

* Community Events

* Planning documents and development sites

The suite of themes can be used as a “footer” on related documents and as signs for the appropriate events/projects and sites.

The Bas ‘n’ Dean characters were the original idea of local resident Mr Willie Westlake for use for signage on the Swan River. Sadly, Mr. Westlake passed away in 2002. The Town had proposed that the characters would be used for community events, but it would appear that the proposal did not gain momentum.

Posted in worst art, worst graffiti | Tagged , , , , | 17 Comments