Musings from (Relative) Sobriety
‘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 haphazardly constructed beer pong table and…
Review: The Life of Pablo
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…
Rejected Fringe World Acts
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.…
“Lamb With Us, or Leave Us”: MLA’s Latest Australia Day Ad Message
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…
Pelican Remembers: Lesser known deaths of 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. Widely regarded as a…
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.
We’re all familiar with Grindr by now, the infamous hookup app that encompasses the vast panorama of Perth’s comically underwhelming queer scene. From the naïve 18-year-old who still believes in…
2015: The Little Year that Fucking Couldn’t
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-fascistic…
Do I Make Children Cry? The Varying Degrees of Despair Induced By Perth Buskers
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…
Review: Babooshka
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 familiar enough to satisfy…
Pelican Crashes PJ’s Christmas Party
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 sliders for Paul Johnson’s Christmas Party, a…