Quite enjoyed this ad from the City of Cape Town on how Cape Town would look if we don’t slow down on our endless energy consumption. Turn off something somewhere right now. You’ll be doing good by keeping our city pretty.
Guys, we all remember this wonderful video where SA comedian Don Packett pretends to be the Head Parlotone and swings around his chicken leg. Well you can catch him and Jon Vlismas – who is also hilarious – at the Breadline Africa comedy show at the Grand Daddy Hotel on 2 September 2010. It’s being hosted by ridiculously good-looking Richard Hardiman, whom you listen to every morning on 2oceansvibe radio, no doubt.
(Hey does ANYONE listen to ‘old radio’ anymore? Like over the ‘airwaves’? Gosh, that’s right up there with ‘dialup modems’, yes? Hey remember when you actually had to ‘fiddle with a knob’ so you could ‘get a signal’? Mindblowing!)
Anyway Breadline for Africa is a charity that is close to CTG’s heart, and hilarity aside, the funds raised from this will go to sending 120 underprivileged kids to the Breadline For Africa Annual Seaside Party. This gets held every year and they take kids who have never seen the sea, to go sea the sea. Which is a very meaningful initiative. Please just imagine never having seen the sea?
The sea. You've never seen it.
And this. You've never seen this either.
Ja, I thought so. Get yourself a ticket for R250 by clicking here. See you there! xx
The 'Shee Pee'
Been having a quiet chuckle at this rather naughty way to use your vuvuzela now that the World Cup is over. Check out Wozela – they have a whole BUNCH of innovative uses for old vuvuzelas. You can even submit your own! Maybe more fun than recycling but remember, once you’ve had your fun, recycle!
“I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, “I feel fat.” Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, Oh, I look like a woman. And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.” – Christina Hendricks (that HOT chick from Madmen)
As a seasoned member of CT’s blogville, having been blogging for 7 billion years and having been a multiple recipient of 18 thousand blogging and blog-related awards in the field of bloggable blogging, I pick up a few things, namely that SA digital entrepreneur bros are looking for cash injections, the ever elusive Venture Capital. Well, on that topic, my dear friend @swartperd recently made me aware of a fantastic, bite-sized VC site called Kickstarter, which allows the everyman to invest in the everyman’s dreams. I love it and have thus far invested in a couple of projects, including The First iPhone 4 Cinematic Film as well as a South African collection of bicycle portraits. Pretty sweet. Looking forward to seeing the fruits of my small but meaningful donations. Go check it out – there’s something very special about watching a project grow when you have a little vested interest in it. I imagine this is what having children is like, just less mission and more reward.
As a seasoned Capetonian, my life is very carefully arranged so as to cause me Minimum Effort and Maximum Awesome. I live 5 seconds from where I work, I shop 5 seconds from where I live, and if anything takes me longer that 5 seconds to get to / do, I simply abandon it. It’s a maxim to live by. Try it. This morning took an unusual turn in that my petrol light was flashing, so I thought, let me just swing past the petrol station (NOT a BP), also 5 seconds from my front door. Swing past. In, out, off to work. Totally plausible, but only in a world where there are no floaters.
I have discussed floaters before. They are the bane of the 24-hour Engen on Orange Street. They drive into the driveway, and then, instead of turning left or right or nipping into a petrol bay, they simply stop and… float. They float, and they back up the traffic into Orange Street, causing near-pile-ups and much screeching of tyres, swearing and hooting, gnashing of teeth and abandoning of religious beliefs. All of which is totally unnecessary at 9am in a city that generally looks and feels like this:
Blissful.
Can you see how this would completely FUCK with the pretty?
This morning we had a very special floater. Not only did this floater drive in and, predictably, float and cause a traffic jam, but she also dropped the cigarette she was smoking out of the window. She then made everyone wait (and hoot, and screech, and rev engines and pray that cars do not drive into the back of them around the semi blind corner) while she handbraked her car, opened the door, got out and retrieved same cigarette (she clearly dropped it by mistake – it wasn’t finished! heaven forbid she miss out on that last drag! the world might just end! ) and then get back in her car while she fiddled around in her handbag for dog knows what – a lighter, some lipstick, a tampon to stop further braincells bleeding out her nose? You’re smoking a cigarette at a petrol station? Jesus…
Listen up floaters: Drive into the Engen, and decide. Do you want PETROL, or do you want a PIE? For PETROL turn RIGHT. For PIE, turn LEFT. But whatever you do, DO NOT STOP AND FLOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. PLEASE.
Please.
please.
Photobooths - what a great idea
Went to the Sunglass Hut Totally Wired Auction last night, held in aid of raising funds for OneSight.org, a charity that helps out people in need of visual aids (ie. a large portion of this planet). It went amazingly well – they managed to raise over R20,100 in under 15 minutes! Very cool. MC Nic Rabinowitz was hilarious, and the glasses they were auctioning off were utterly incredible, this pair being my personal favourite:
Hilarious!
Although I quite enjoyed these too…
Fab darling! Perfect for kick-off on friday, methinks...
ALL the schlebs in Cape Town turned out. Richard, Raoul and myself got a little carried away with the silly in the photobooth though…
Silly billies
Just too fun to stop!
Seriously now, well done to Sunglass Hut for putting on an awesome event that supports such a worthy cause.
CTG
Guys, do you ever feel empty for no reason? Kinda like something is wrong, but you don’t know what it is? Your life is great, but you feel dissatisfied? Even after you’ve eaten an entire box of macarons from Cassis? That empty feeling comes from a massive HOLE in your SOUL that exists because you’re not doing something to give back to your community / people less fortunate / the planet / etc. Seriously, I’m not joking. This sounds quite deep but really what I’m doing here in explaining the human condition in 100 words or less. You can thank me later.
And if you don’t have the occasional hole in your soul you’re probably a psychopath.. (miss you Pat Bateman).
Anyway, I would like to bring to your attention an easy way to plug that hole, at least for a while. Sunglass Hut have commissioned the social development project Streetwires to produce 1 000 beaded wayfarer sunglasses in the colours of selected teams’ flags. Each pair are uniquely numbered and signed by the person who made them, so handing over a mere R150 in exchange for a pair seems like a small thing to ask. R70 of each pair sold will be donated to OneSight, a charity that supplies basic eyecare to thousands in need. Vision seems a strange thing to think about, but the reality is a lot of people in this world need some kind of visual aid, and for most people, a pair of glasses costs more than a month’s salary. So any contributions to this campaign will benefit somebody in some way. You’ll find the glasses in Sunglass Hut stores across the country.
I’ll be attending the launch of the Totally Wired range on Wednesday night 9 June (that’s this Wednesday, to you), where the hilarious Nic Rabinowitz be hosting a fundraiser auction where some special edition Totally Wired sunglasses will be auctioned off to the highest bidders. All the money raised will go to Onesight. If you’d like to attend the auction, send a mail to info@pressstick.co.za. You should, if only to get a glimpse of CTG in her totally rad totally wired shades. For more information, go here.
