The National Gallery in Melbourne has been under reconstruction for years now. I last went there in 1997 I think and it's definately been shut down since at least '99. They say it's opening again in November this year, but that's about the forty-third different reopening date they've given in the past couple of years so I'll believe it when I see it.
Anyway, all the outside of the building has been good for in that time is hosting a flame-war between various factions of Melbourne psychopaths on the yellow construction walls. Usually it's some far left-wing knobs writing stuff about how Howard/Bush/Israel = KKK/Hitler/Great Satan or something but once in a while the other side fires up and you get some great thesis about what complete bastards the Palestinians are. Every few days the wall will be wiped clean (even though you can still see most of what was written left underneath) and the process starts all over again.
Recently, though, the hippies have started to express a bizarre desire for the welfare of poultry and related products. Last week it was "Save Chickens, not People" and after a couple of other livestock related 'posts' they've come up with the greatest piece of graffiti ever. In five foot high letters on the Southbank Boulevard side of the wall it now says;
"GIVE ME CHICKEN OR GIVE ME DEATH"
Pure genius! It's the best thing an anarchist has ever done.
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