Belmont Fever

Posted on March 8, 2008 by AHC McDonald

I usually get the basic tetanus booster when travelling in Belmont, but I had no idea you could immunise against the whole suburb. Medical marvel indeed.

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Doggy Style, Alsatian Rampant

Posted on March 7, 2008 by AHC McDonald

To say I was astounded by this photograph sent in by Drew would be an understatement. I babbled, I laughed like a gibbon, I cried like a chimp, I went “Wuh,wah, But what fuck uh, huh?” Could “Playtime” by I Creator be the world’s worst painting, right here at our own Blender Gallery Joondalup? Or is it one of the best ever? Is the total ineptness of the production offset by the outrageous setting? An Alsatian, tongue out, eyes a woman’s genitals while she plays with a kitten (pussy). I hope there’s not a tryptich, because I’m sure panel 3 would have the dog sharing a cigarette with the woman. And what’s with the low hanging gut and toy feet? I’m not even sure it’s legal, but $1500 will get you this piece today. I’m sure however that the price will go up faster than an Alsatian’s erection after international TWOP readers start a bidding war. On the other hand, it would have looked awesome on Cockburn Station. Image remains copyright Drew.

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Great Wall Warning

Posted on March 6, 2008 by AHC McDonald

Just an early warning. The Lazy Aussie will be working in China next week starting on Monday. I will have some posts ready to go for while I am away, but WordPress is frequently blocked over there, so it is a possibility that I won’t be able to satisfy your worst needs for that time. Ai Ya! I don’t want to be arrested for posting a picture of a Morley letterbox, but I hope there will be ways around the Great Firewall of China. Monday will be the last guaranteed post.

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Romancing The Wombat

Posted on March 6, 2008 by AHC McDonald

Just for you guys, I went to The Convention Centre on Sunday for “WA On Show”, specifically and only to get shots for TWOP. Transperth were showing how to get on a bus, I assume as part of an escape plan if you found yourself in Rockingham. A guy advertising Rockingham was wrangling a wombat. I don’t know what it means. Rockingham, wombats, it just all seemed to fit together somehow. The wombat is the one on the left. Are there wombats in Rockingham? The other pic was just surreal. I don’t know what to say. Something about blowholes perhaps. There is a sinister hand behind the diving mannequin that seems to be some kind of priest. Could the dolphin be performing a Footscray dolphin kiss? Too many questions. There were camera phones aplenty, I assumed they were mostly aspiring TWOP cadets.

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Bra Burning

Posted on March 5, 2008 by AHC McDonald

This was a lesson to me. I meant to stop and take a picture of this ugly lingerie factory in Maylands, but decided I could do it later. The next day it burned down. Would have been really cool to have posted it before it burned, so I could have claimed it was a TWOP reader taking action. Always take the time to stop and appreciate worst when you can, people. The top was heavily graffitied and it really was a ridiculous looking building. It is now a vacant block, so I did save some of our worst history. Those bras really go up when they get going don’t they?

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Atomised

Posted on March 4, 2008 by AHC McDonald

Odd and sinister artwork in Cockburn submitted by Crankynick. Before I go on, I have looked through my submission pile and am very embarrassed that I still haven’t posted so many excellent submissions from people. There are so many that I may take a little time. Sometimes I just have to think of something funny to say to go with them.

Crankynick says: This couple has been bemusing travellers on the Freeway South since mid-2006, as both mugshots are leering at drivers from the top of the tower on Cockburn station. They’re supposed to be the ‘Faces of Cockburn’ – the artist took photos of 500 young boys from the area, and 500 old women, and morphed the respective genders together. I think they should use the space for “Australia’s most wanted” and have done with it.

Thanks Cranker. I have driven past these a few times and thought that they were 1: advertisments, or 2: missing persons. I have to admit that I think the idea is really interesting, and I want to like it, but the result is extremely sinister, which is inappropriate for the station stetting. They look like the photos people put on graves. If anyone wants to support it, I’m quite happy to add it to the not worst category though. Crankynick suggests that they should have been lower, or have some kind of explanation. I’m inclined to agree.

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Cyrenian

Posted on March 3, 2008 by AHC McDonald

I don’t want to denigrate the work of Cyrenian House, – a fine organisation, but they may have been concentrating so much on curing drug and alcohol addiction that they have not noticed their own logo. The last figure appearing to be falling flat on his face or maybe even jumping out the window, isn’t really sending the right message for drug treatment, unless there is another panel with him getting up again. The second figure is a little problematic too. cyrenian.jpg

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Location, location

Posted on March 2, 2008 by AHC McDonald

Directly across the road from the wagon chair. At least it doesn’t have a christian fish on it.

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In The Van, Man

Posted on March 1, 2008 by AHC McDonald

But Officer, what made you pull over our van?

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Oh my achin’ back.

Posted on February 29, 2008 by AHC McDonald

I’ve never seen a chair that radiates discomfort as much as this one. What the…? This wagon wheel would have died a better death in a Maylands garden wall than in this abortion of a chair in Cannington.

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