Queen of the Llami : 07/09/06

This joke is for Merle and Prue, but anyone else.. feel free to laugh. Merle your coat has been MUCH admired.



The background to this picture is a tawdry Santa 'World', Muzak Carols booming louder than the Myer Centre on Christmas Eve and quantities of 'souvenir' shops (how many reindeer have to die!) housed in fake Sami teepees and heroic log cabins. I suppose these are meant to represent the mystical Finnish past when men were men and got around in versions of the faux military or woodsman clothing they wear even now. I came across some photographs of hairy log cabined types, missus in the background, sheathed dagger at the ready. The Arctic Circle truck stop blokes across the main road seemed a lot more real. There were gathered the bristled, hung-over, beer-gutted, and just plain bored. I was among my people.