Public Pool Series #2
If you grew up in Brisbane - it's safe to say, without a doubt - that you've been to the Valley Pool at least once. Those deep blue lines are home to some of the truest, bluest swimmers around - if Leisel Jones, Libby Lenton and ‘The Lapdogs' mean anything to you? (Rumour has it the sheer, unrelenting commitment and determination of the ‘LD's' recently sent Libby packing her bags for the bluer lanes of Sydney?).
Lick It's 2nd Anniversary
Hip-hip-hooray, it's your birthday! ... Que candle blowing, cake cutting and cheering all round, and then some snotty-nosed kid starts with the ‘happy birthday to you, you're one hundred and two, you look like a monkey and you smell like one too...' Yeh, good one mate. (Then again, you can only get that one in once a year).
Green Flea Community Market
It's not a scandal - it's true; the ‘fresh' produce from Woolworths ‘the fresh food people' ain't all that fresh. The last time I bit into a supermarket apple it tasted like a bag of bicarbonate soda. Honestly, what's the point of eating vegies if all the nutrients are left behind in the freezer where they were laid to rest after being picked fresh several months ago? It's time to take your green bags down to the riverbanks and fetch all your fruit and veg on Saturdays at West End's Green Flea markets.
Danger Bunnies
When I was in grade seven I read Babysitters books and the only musical interest I had, other than attempting to learn the tabs to Bush's ‘Glycerine' was the mega crush I had on Taylor Hanson. Indigo is much cooler. She's been playing violin since she was four years old and fronts local band Danger Bunnies, she's more into PJ Harvey and Gwen Stefani and dreams of playing the Big Day Out someday.
Brisbane Ekka
Would you believe that there are no good carny jokes anywhere at all on the Internet? That was our original plan for filling this section, but seeing as all of the jokes suck, we’ve had to get off our lazy asses and find out what’s actually happening at the Ekka this year.
We were surprised to discover there’s heaps more interesting things to do than try to take discreet photographs of carnival folk.
Canoeing
If you’re still drunk and stumbling across the Story Bridge on a Sunday morning, you would, and rightfully so, laugh at ‘the crazy people’ canoeing along below you. Truth be told, these crazies were probably in bed before you even got into Family. Yep, they were getting fat Z’s while you were slamming down Jager-bombs and other colourful things.
Redcliffe Kitefest 2008
Wanna get high this weekend? Or would you rather hoist a bit of fabric bound together with nylon and hollow plastic tubing into the air? We know what we'd choose. (Both.)
This Saturday and Sunday sees the running of the annual Kitefest at Redcliffe, and by golly is it going to be a cracker! Due to the ever-increasing interest in kite flying, only a small handful of kite-fliers (kitists? kiters? kiteophiles?) have been personally invited to fly at this year's event.
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