I can’t tell if this is rubbish dumping or performance art. This abandoned ironing board on Exhibition St looks too neat and tidy to be random.
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Monthly archives: November 2009
another satisfying dinner at Soul Food cafe, Smith St
I caught up for a friend recently for a long Friday night gossip at Soul Food cafe on Smith St. I devoured some tasty nachos while she enjoyed the potato broccoli and apple soup.
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deflated
The Fitzroy Revolution cycle shop on Victoria St has the most intense orange bins.
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Fitzroy history – it was fifty years ago today on Greeves St
This photo c1959 shows what I think is the north side of Greeves St facing west away from Brunswick St from the corner of Fitzroy St. The original photo may have been reversed because the description in the Picture Victoria site does not make sense: “View of South side, looking West towards Brunswick Street.” The houses on the south side of the street facing west are almost a mirror image, with two storied houses on each end of the street and single storey terraces in between, but the chimneys of the corner house on the south side don’t match the photo, whereas the northern side house does match the photo once it is reversed.…
incognito turtleneck
The Geronimo turtles have lost a friend who is not so helpfully dressed in a turtleneck and wearing tortoise-shell glasses.
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breakfast at Las Chicas, Carlisle St Balaclava
On a rare visit southside recently I chose a cafe for breakfast based entirely on reviews. It’s a fun thing to do – to see whether a place that has many good reviews delivers a good experience. As possibly the last white person in Melbourne to have breakfast at Las Chicas on Carlisle St Balaclava I was extremely pleased to have a fantastic breakfast and to have confirmed that all the reviews I had read were accurate and helpful.…
old and new Rone on Gore St
Since September when I previously posted about this fading Rone work on Gore St it gained some lippy, but when he updated the Rose St wall recently Rone also covered the ‘get a new picture’ writing with… a new picture. Nice.
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Last Tuesday Society second anal Christmas shambles at the Order of Melbourne
I’m sad that the Last Tuesday Society seems to have outgrown their second Fitzroy venue, Yah Yah’s, in 2009 after outgrowing the Old bar the previous year. I’m very pleased for them however that they continue to attract larger audiences to their performances.
Their last show for 2009, the second anal Christmas shambles at the Order of Melbourne, was packed and lots of fun, though it was not quite as consistently funny as the previous plagiarism show.…
George St porch jazz band
While walking up Moor St on a recent Saturday afternoon towards Smith St I stopped to admire the music being played by a three piece jazz band playing on the cramped front porch of a terrace house on George St near the corner with Moor St, apparently just for the fun of it. I love these random Fitzroy experiences.
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