Wednesday, March 12, 2008
REVENY
For just one week every year, the high-pitched shrieking noise coming out of Melbourne is produced by something other than Catherine Deveny:
March is the month of the revolting, corrosive, environmental and cultural vandalism that is the Grand Prix.
Revolting, corrosive ... the similarities between Formula One and a standard Deveny column are stunning. (Speaking of corrosion, delicate Deveny is deeply urine-obsessed today. Whatever happened to Age editor Andy Jaspan’s celebrated language sensitivity?) Among other Deveny/F1 points of comparison:
• Both F1 cars and Deveny are sometimes permitted to run on public roads.
• Both F1 cars and Deveny use mirrors.
• An F1 engine weighs 95 kilograms.
UPDATE. In other media lady news, Marieke “Nice flag, fuckhead” Hardy has won a prize. Hardy watcher Margaret of Newtown is impressed:
Congratulations Marieke! I hope that this award results in a bunch of other women in their mid-thirties following your example and dressing like 6yo girls.