Too Shy at the Orient (Part 4) – Mad Chaos: March 1, 1999
Ralf sings the blues to a busker, drinks two beers and I stay on water while a girl in a baby blue top slips away unasked.
Photographing Three Girls in the Rain (Part 3) – Mad Chaos: March 1, 1999
Squeezed into the parade crowd, then wandering Hyde Park and dodging rain, I finally found the nerve to ask three girls for a photo.
Ralf Sleeps Through Mardi Gras Prep (Part 2) – Mad Chaos: March 1, 1999
Ralf promised an early start for the Mardi Gras, then went to sleep. The long wait, a phone bill dream and a very jovial lift to the station.
Seeping Guts and the Dying of Summer (Part 1) – Mad Chaos: March 1, 1999
The first day of autumn brings a cockroach that refuses to die, a plan to stretch the last of the government pay and a thousand skips.