Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Letters from the Hedge



"Dear Mum and Dad,
Well, here I am in Mell Bourne, and it's a lovely city. Here is a photograph of one of the great natural sights which I found in St Kilda*. The locals call it a 'brick'. Slowly, I am learning the language of these shy but intelligent people. Maybe one of these days, they will accept me as one of their own... "

Well, my parents are back in Australia, after their whirlwind tour of the more obscure corners of the world. I've received several postcards from them, including - most bizarrely - one from Dad with a picture of two elephants making elephanty-sex, with Slovenian slogans written above them. I've no idea what the fuck he was trying to tell me there.
For a while there, they seemed to be having the time of their lives - not to mention their life insurance, which I think they sold to finance this trip.

Anyway, after receiving all these postcards from them, I think it would be remiss of me not to return the favour. I'm going to get myself a camera, and take pictures of some of the most ordinary, unexciting sites around Melbourne, and send them in to my parents like postcards. Some ideas so far:

Here is a picture of a local store, called 'Wool Worths'. I don't know why, but somehow it seems rather familiar ...

I had a nice trip yesterday. I slipped on a banana peel and fell onto the pavement. Here is a picture of the banana peel, which I kept as a memento. Isn't it beautiful?

If you can suggest any Melbourne vomitoriums or trash-heaps that I can take a picture of, leave a note in comments.

*Okay, I didn't really find it in St Kilda, I found it on the net. I was just using a common literary technique, known as 'lying'. And you didn't even know, you fools! Bwahahahaha!

5 comments:

  1. Last night's curry would be an EXCELLENT idea for a picture, though this was, in fact, a brick I got from google image search. I had to shrink it down a bit when I posted the image, and the dimensions of the picture changed a bit.

    I must say, I'm not impressed with this brick. If I could have got a better brick from google image search, I would have. For some reason, the quality of bricks on their server is SADLY LACKING.

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  2. I didn't wonder if you were lying, I wondered whether you could get in trouble if you really did show your drug stuff on the interwebs.

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  3. Anonymous1:22 pm

    Go right ahead! The idea probably wasn't mine to begin with ... it just appeared in my head one day, out of the blue, and I liked it.

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  4. Anonymous1:31 pm

    Drugs?

    People, I was just showing a simple picture of a brick on the internet. I like bricks. I like their elegance and I like their simplicity, and there you go bringing drugs into it. Humph!

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  5. Anonymous10:40 pm

    I find the best place for image searches is http://www.dogpile.com, maybe you can find yourself a pretty little brick there!

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