On Thu, 26 May 2005 07:48:17 +1000, Arfur Moo
wrote:
> (Herewith re-sent with the addition of .)Tennis w
>riter Suzi Petkovski probably didn't even give herself time to find a
>half-decent court in either Zeehan or Queenstown when she sped through (in
>her words she "floored it" through Zeehan) both "ugly" west-coast Tasmanian
>towns in March this year while skimming some shallow feelings from that
>world-famous region for her story headed "See it or flee it" in the
>suspicious first ("June 2005") edition of the Sydney-based monthly magazine
>_Australian Traveller_.
>
>Is she from the USA? She talks of Zeehan as having "trailer-park town
>planning", and of Queenstown as "a shoo-in" for Australia's "most butt-ugly
>town".
>
>The ostentatiously US-hack nature of her writing is a cert for some sort of
>award. Any ideas, anyone? Meanwhile, please give her a wide berth on the
>roads. She'll probably be passing through another intolerably ugly part of
>Australia.
A google search shows that her background is basically as a
tennis specialist writer; she has been writing for Tennis
Week, mainly about Oz players, since the late '90s.
Cheers, Alan, Australia |