For those of you that don’t live here and so might have missed it, Perth was hit by fairly major storms on Monday. Not, like, Haiti-level major, but for a small city where exciting things are generally thought to “happen somewhere else”, that place usually being Melbourne, it was kind of a big deal.

The back half of my house flooded and my car broke down, forcing me to run through rain, so I tweeted about it like a whingy bitch. It was hardly big news or particularly bad. It certainly doesn’t compare to this:

And yet, here I am in today’s West Australian, being quoted in what must be the most bizarre publicity I have ever recieved. Welcome, of course, I mean all publicity is welcome, particularly when it’s this amusing. But it’s a very strange thing to find my words appearing in a newspaper article, particularly when I had no prior knowledge.

In the spirit of that, given that nobody from The West asked my permission to use the quote, here’s their story for you to giggle awkwardly with me at:

BTW, I’m dropping the new single like a bomb IN AN HOUR.