The Interweb

Melbournians are well connected. But they also appreciate that the interweb is USELESS if you aren't comfortable while you are web 2.0-ing.

Smith St, Fitzroy.

Noise band

Melbourne people love bands and they love noise and they love bands that only play noise.

I Love Sydney and So Should You - Have Moved!

Very important news.

The entire editorial staff of 'I Love Sydney and So Should You' have relocated to Melbourne, another splendid city that those people who love Sydney should also find a special place in their hearts for.

Over the next few months the ILSASSY team will be focussing their efforts on brining ILSASSY readers the freshest, hippest most updatiest content from the southern jewel that is Melbourne.

Full service suburban rail

As a passengers on Sydney's excellent suburban rail service you don't just enjoy comfortable, speedy and punctual transport throughout the metropolitan area. Every imaginable convenience is at your fingertips to deliver you to your destination refreshed and stress free.

Between Kings Cross and Martin Place stations.

Alternative independent indie country musical band concert

Folks in Sydney sure like to dress real nice for special occasions, like for when the boys from My Morning Jacket come to town. Even boys like to dress real pretty sometimes.

Dead Goon Bag

Virgilzgurl, a new contributer to this blog, took this wonderful shot in Willoughby. Formerly mundane dormitory suburb given life by diasporic Armenians, now gently gentrifying into decline. She tells me that she suspects that this "dead goon bag was thrown from the window of a Lexus by a north shore house wife on the wrong side of a Xanex/Chardonnay bender possibly on her way to pick up the kids from school".

Whatever the explanation, it seems quite sad. And poignant.

There's still at least half a litre in there.

Phwoaaar Coiffure!

Somewhere near Wolli Creek station.

Lapidary club

Sydney is the kind of town where a lapidarist need not lap alone, but can travel to places where other lapidarists congregate such as this club in Bankstown, to mingle and lap together in the company of like minded folk.

Day turns into Night

A day in Bankstown



Turns to Night

Helpful signage

Helpful signage in Petersham helps both Sydneysiders and visitors find their way around.

Head on a stick

There is a store, in central Sydney, that sells a range of razors and hairdryers and other sundry items and machines for personal grooming and maintenance.

Just inside this store is a head on a stick.

It is unclear whether this head is to dissuade potential thieves or whether its demonstrating a product designed specifically for people without bodies.

Subprime collapse - financial crisis

The worldwide financial crisis stemming from the US subprime collapse is making itself felt in the city's financial district. The sudden unavailability of easy credit combined with the dramatic fall in the value of the Australian dollar has taken many casualties amongst the financial classes.

The fallen are so numerous that we don't have time or resources to bury them. This one has simply been left in Hyde Park to await the scavenging Ibises.

Neighbourhood Watch

A big city with small town values. A place where people still like to look out for each other.

A back alley in Darlinghurst.

A physically fit city

Boxercising at Central Station, Eastern suburbs platform.

Or possibly needing to go to the toilet rather badly.

Commercial Travellers' Association Lounge Bar

A fellow journeyman at the Commercial Travellers' Association Lounge Bar, Martin Place.

Dead Bat

Death is all around Sydney it seems.

Or at least in Petersham.

Bulldogs

Following on from the funereal theme, something in Bankstown for the diehard Bulldogs fan.

(Photo by Peter Kossen)

Funeral Pizza

Following on from the converted Pizza Hut building theme from a previous post, is example of a very innovative re-use in Revesby.

I wonder if the salad bar is still available for wakes and such.

Goodbye Winter - Hello Spring

Despite being windy, rainy and colder than ever right now, it really is Spring. At least officially. Perhaps a good opportunity to note the winter that has just passed by remembering a foggy night in Padstow.

Backyard Footy

Last tackle, trailing by an unconverted try. A desperate pass out to the wing. Saturday afternoon, Moorebank.

Courtship

There's still a chill in the air. But when you spy the first nervous steps of a young couple courting in Hyde Park, you know that Spring is just around the corner.

Korean Pizza

Kimchee stuffed crust Super Supreme - Belfield

Child Labour

Still at work at 11pm. Long after the store has closed. Haymarket.

Fashion city

Kings Station, City bound platform, in the afternoon.

A friendly city

6.13pm Express to Macarthur.

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Bat and Ball

Sinking a few quiet ones - corner of South Dowling and Cleveland Streets.