“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 Comment57 views
Vale, David Bowie: You Changed Us Pelican11 January 2016 David Bowie’s role in music was one of the weightiest to ever come careening into western culture as we know it today. His death, concluding a concealed 18-m... Music0 Comments31 views
Just Asking Pelican30 December 2015 Question: How much is our national identity worth? Or rather, how susceptible are ‘Australian values’ to serious examination? Sorry if these questions are v... Politics0 Comments2 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 Comments13 views
Pursue New Careers: UWA Slashes 300 Jobs Pelican10 December 2015 In a statement released yesterday, UWA Vice Chancellor Paul Johnson announced that Perth’s prestigious “Group of Eight” University will be laying off 300 ... Voice1 Comment39 views
Pelican’s Albums of the Year Pelican24 November 2015 It’s not quite the end of the year, but it is the end of the Pelican year, so I thought I would get Peli’s music writer community to give us their top 5 alb... Music0 Comments30 views
Thomas Pynchon’s Paper Bag Masked Party: A Oral History Pelican17 September 2015 JONATHAN FRANZEN: I was sitting in Kirschbaum's Bakery one morning, halfway through a strudel, when this girl walked up to me, all Helvetica-light glasses, brai... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments75 views
Short story: An Incident at the Glove Factory Pelican31 July 2015 Nosing at the Selangor canals in the industrial zone of Setia City, there is a large, grey, squat building of a dour aesthetic which one passer-by of no consequ... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments37 views
Little Pretty Pocket Books and Murderous Clones: The Dark and Puritanical Heritage of Kids’ Lit Pelican27 July 2015 It would be grossly naive to think children’s stories are undeserving of serious consideration. Prevailingly though, they’re seen as the ‘paddling pool’... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments4 views
Goonology Pelican23 July 2015 Goon is felt by the Australian nation to be a possession which is its very own, just like its many varieties of Bunnings cordless drills and Mrs... Voice0 Comments97 views
