Musings from (Relative) Sobriety Pelican11 March 2016 ‘Hey, why aren’t you drinking tonight?’ It’s the usual story for a Saturday night- out the back of my friend’s house, lingering around the haphazar... Voice0 Comments26 views
Review: The Life of Pablo Pelican28 February 2016 For most of us, that part-fabricated, all-celebrity iconic soup marinates his entire identity, and unfortunately for The Life of Pablo, any alternative interpretation you could try scooping out of his actual music still stinks of it. Harry Manson reviews. MusicVoice0 Comments19 views
Rejected Fringe World Acts Pelican27 January 2016 The screening process for quality Fringe World acts is less than rigorous. However, there were yet a handful of 2016 shows judged unsuitable by the Fringe World board of governors. Here are some of them. Voice0 Comments12 views
“Lamb With Us, or Leave Us”: MLA’s Latest Australia Day Ad Message Pelican15 January 2016 In other words, the ad demonstrates an extremely helicopterist method of bringing back into the fold the country’s lost sheep, just so they can eat some baby sheep under a Hills Hoist for an afternoon. The whole set-piece is brash, dystopian, hyperbolic and bizarre. The Gruen audience would probably love it Voice1 Comment68 views
Pelican Remembers: Lesser known deaths of 2015 Pelican27 December 2015 Grandpa Swift Rigby (b. 1879) Old Swifty was the oldest known Pelican Editor, serving from 1902 to 1925 in the only autocratic kingship in Pelican History. W... Voice0 Comments9 views
I’ve Been on Grindr for 18 Months and in That Time My Lungs Have Collapsed and the Light of Holiness Has Fled My Soul. Pelican22 December 2015 We’re all familiar with Grindr by now, the infamous hookup app that encompasses the vast panorama of Perth’s comically underwhelming queer scene. ... Voice0 Comments618 views
2015: The Little Year that Fucking Couldn’t Pelican20 December 2015 2015 was without question, a shithouse year. I write this in its closing weeks and at this stage it looks like we’re going to reach the new year with neo-fasc... Voice0 Comments123 views
Do I Make Children Cry? The Varying Degrees of Despair Induced By Perth Buskers Pelican17 December 2015 It became apparent to me the enormous power of the busker to influence mood on a Thursday afternoon in March. I was sitting sipping a badly made iced coffee and... Voice0 Comments13 views
Review: Babooshka Pelican16 December 2015 Brunch culture is steadily taking over Perth and I am glad to submit to its inevitable supremacy. Babooshka in Arcade 189 serves mid-morning meals which are fam... Voice0 Comments25 views
Pelican Crashes PJ’s Christmas Party Pelican12 December 2015 Beyond the thin and flag-fluttering boundary line enclosing the UWA University Club, where staff and cashed-up members gathered about champagne islands and mini... Voice0 Comments14 views
