Ah, yes. Brings back great memories. Had offices on Albert Road for many years and spent a bit of time visiting good friends in Middle Park -- living in Sydney at that time. Not sure returning to the NYC was such a great move in the general scheme of things.
Otis Wright Anthony Farr wrote: > Bob, > Good to see that you haven't lost your grasp on Aussie badinage. BTW there > was a minor typo in your message. I'm certain you must have intended, "who > totally knows all stuff" when you wrote, "who knows totally stuff all". > It's a crime how mail readers make erroneous auto-corrections behind our > backs ;-) > > FWIW I've been a regular visitor to Melbourne for almost 40 years, since my > teens. I have a pretty fair idea what it's like. Melbourne braggadocio can > be wearing, though, in a way that only the residents of Australia's other > cities can appreciate. Just recently I had to listen to a one eyed > Melbournian assert that Australia's best beaches are.... guess where? > Queensland's Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast? Perth's glorious surfing > beaches? The north coast of New South Wales around Byron Bay? No, > Australia's best beaches are... (drum roll)in Melbourne of course. Aaack. > > Here's Melbourne's most famous beach: > http://tinyurl.com/5dk3x7 > > http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St+Kilda+Victoria+Austra > lia&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.868417,144.969578&spn=0.030829,0.057335&t=h&z=14&iwloc=ad > dr > > Here are my neighbourhood beaches in Sydney, not even the most famous: > http://tinyurl.com/62urno > > http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=freshwater+beach+2096&sl > l=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=68.730338,117.421875&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=-33.78143,1 > 51.290836&spn=0.032459,0.057335&z=14 > > Incredible. > > Yesterday a Sydney restaurant, Tetsuya's, made number 9 in a world's best > restaurants list. A few months ago a different list put Tetsuya's at number > 4 IIRC. Nothing from Melbourne was anywhere close. If only I got 5 cents > every time I heard that Australia's best restaurants are in Melbourne, I'd > be a rich man. > > Melbourne's not bad, it's nice. My home city, Sydney, is by comparison a > blousy old tart with petticoats rumpled and disarrayed. Some of my most > pleasing city scenes have been shot in Melbourne, however it's difficult to > get a pleasing angle on Sydney that isn't already clichéd. > > But IMO, as someone in this corner of the world, Melbourne's creative scene > is insufferably pretentious and arrogantly self-superior. And not as good > as it claims. Sputnikagency isn't remarkably bad, it's typical. > > Regards, > Anthony Farr. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Bob W >> Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 6:25 AM >> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' >> Subject: RE: Camera Bag for Travel Kit >> >> [snipped: totally biased and 1100% totally and utterly untrue and >> totally unjust rant against the pearl of Australian cities and its >> gentle folk obviously by some total drongo who knows totally stuff all >> and nothing about culchah or totally fine places and people] >> >> >>> An >>> Australian joke is that >>> >>>> the best thing to come out of Melbourne is the road. >>>> >> 2nd best, actually. >> >> Bob (born there) >> >> >> >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
