LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT
A wrestle over finite resources is taking place in a Betoota share house as the resident stoner and passionate art student fight over who has rights to the recycled cardboard.
Made up of individuals who can be more accurately described as ‘trauma survivors’ than ‘house mates’, residents of the Betoota Ponds sharehouse, affectionately known as the Deep Fat Gentri-Fryer, are made up of students from Betoota Uni and those that will finish their course one day mum.
With an appreciation for nature that can only come from inhaling a plant, house stoner Mitch Chellin (24) falls into the latter category of residents and makes up for his unfinished degree in environmental science by recycling soft cardboards into roaches for the joints he smokes daily.
Where once Mitch had a monopoly on the cardboards he recycled into a smoking apparatus, housemate and art student Lilly Zen (21) has just discovered Banksy and really wants the spent cardboard to make some stencils that will be in no way derivative.
“I need it for my creativity,” stated Lilly, unaware Mitch felt much the same way.
“If I steal any more manilla folders the library staff are going to start to notice.”
Lilly then told Mitch he would be welcome to the cardboard after she has used it as a stencil which prompted Mitch to go on an unprecedented rant about inhaling chemicals.
“Isn’t the whole stencil thing really cliche?” asked Mitch, who had just listened to Dark Side of the Moon the previous night.
“Look, it’s my empty box of fish fingers, you can’t have it.”
