Pratt by name, prat by nature

Steve Pratt, Liberal nutter, is one of the dull grey people who insist on keeping Canberra tied down to its humdrum past with their sad notions of what is "proper" and "good". Pratt's decided to "clean up" Canberra by personally removing any bit of graffiti he can find, whether it's a commissioned piece of community art or not! And the piece he found so offensive he had to remove? A picture of people playing frisbee in the park the art was placed in. Frisbee people!!!! What next? Won't someone please think of the children!

Far as I'm concerned, graffiti is great and does wonders for the endless expanses of grey concrete that Canberra was created from. I love it when some kid with nothing better to do really puts their heart and soul into a piece.

What bothers me most about Pratt though - what makes a man so irate about something so inconsequential that he would spend 5 hours of his day scrubbing a wall? Is he perhaps a little unhinged? Isn't there something useful he could be doing?

RiotACT has suggested he take to a little sledgehammering work instead: http://the-riotact.com/?p=4708.

Knitted terror

I put two more tags up last night with the help of another SnBer and Hubby and a sizeable amount of beer. Thanks to all three of them. The pics aren't great because it was a night drop but you can see Circular Quay in the background...just:

This one has the Harbour Bridge in the background. You'll have to trust me on that one:

Oh, lookie, there she is:

Anyway, these pics are the best you are going to see. I went back there this morning to get a better shot in the daylight and, at 10 in the morning, they were already gone. I would love to think that they were taken by some happy drunk or tourist last night but I know in reality it would have been security removing them in the name of keeping us all safe. I mean, who knows when all that fun fur was gonna blow?

Anonymous graffiti

I love this bit of knit tagging. I don't know who did it - but I found it on Knit-o-rama. The label says "a random act of knitting". The cable ties are a good idea. I have been stitching my tags and it takes a while.