Pocket Full of Ideas - The Creators

The Origin of Pocket Full of Ideas is shrouded in mystery and inuedo, The only thing that is known is that it was started by that famous parkdalian Leon Sammartino. "It seemed to have a entity of it's own, no one can remember how it started, but eventually it started popping up everywhere." said the charasticmatic Mr Sammartino when quized on the matter. "It was amognst a gaggle of names thrown up as cool company names, others included, Fridge magnet productions (A shortly lived foray into the movie making business), Happy go Lucky productions, Johnny come Lately productions and others, but Pocket Full of Ideas (or PFOI, as it was called during a brief New Kids on the Block NKTOB stage) was the one that stuck, I guess it found it's footings when attached to some artwork I produced, including the still famous funky clocks "

As for the website, well that's a whole different matter, as devotees of the site would know, in September 1998 the Pocket was born. It was a ugly kid, purple and black dominated. Since then it has ongone a few major design changes, and many upgardes. It grew quite a following, and grew dramatically, in particular the Photography and Writing pages. Then in August 1999, it fell in disrepair as Leon ran out of time to maintian it properly. It was around this time that Zayne D'Cruz and Shane May both started talking to Leon about advice on how to start a website, when Leon had a brainwave, Get these guys to do all the work, and take the credit yourself, then it was off to convince Funky Dee to join, so Leon took her out to dinner, and put on all his charms, then popped the big question, and the happy little team was born, and the new Pocket was here, More magazine style, less Leon, that could be our slogan, More Style, Less Leon.

Now we have returned after 4 months due to what shall forevermore be referred to as the Y2K incident.

So that brings us to now - May 2002 - and the website has not been updated in nigh on two years - why, well read on - Will it be updated in the future - well maybe - I guess you'll just have to keep checking back.

The Editor

Leon Is the self-proclaimed king of the soveign state of Parkdale. or rather he is the dufon of the parkdale de solare, which of course is french (possibly, pardon my spelling as I don't actually speak French) for the king in waiting of Sunny Parkdale, Okay, so it isn't a soveign state, but it will be one day, just like Leon's going to grow up one day, but in the meantime, he will continue to beleive that Parkdale in the sunniest place in metro Melbourne, that it would be economically viable for Parkdale to suceed from Australia, the major industries of Parkdale, could be stamps, and crappy internet sites, and he has big plans to lure the Ponds institute to Parkdale, as a world renowned centre for higher learning.

Check out Leon's work in The Features, Rants, Writings and he may or may not that a Doctrine in Fashion.

Where is he now? - Well he gave up Computer geekdom a while ago now, and has now set spends his days pretending he is an artist - he has taken to wearing glasses - everthough his eyesight is fine, and hanging out at dinghy bar drinking abysinthe believing he sees Kylie Minogue everyday.

The Writers

Zayne was the playboy of the the pocket crew (read only one who can get a date), he was a global jetsetter, flying off to far flung nations at a moments notice. His natural habitiat is cafes and bars in the CBD of Melbourne, he was an artist, Remember girls, Zayne's a Catch.

Where is he now? - Well never a truer word was spoken than those above - Zayne was indeed a playboy. He gave up fame in the e-world for life on the road a pool shark. He is now the Tom Cruise of the Australian Snooker seen - spending his night fleecing fellow player and this day sleeping with unatractive pool hall women.

Poor Funky Dee, Captured by those evil fijian terriosts. We you'll be happy to know she has returned save and sound, and is currently resting up in the health spa, we still wait breathlessly for her return to these pages.

Where is she now? - Poor Dee where indeed the right words - during her time with Pocket Full of Ideas is was kidnapped by Fijian rebels - and unfortunately see never recovered - slowly she slipped in utter madness and she now firmly believes that she is married to a dinosaur named Rexy the Dinosaur, and that she is pregnant to said Rexy and that the kid will be Donald Duck - Poot, poor Dee

Just like Ian McFadyen was a natural to host Cleudo because he had studied Criminology, Shane is a natural for the Pocket because he actually works in computers, and girls, he looks like Jacque Villenue, there are in fact rumours that he is about to marry Dannii Minogue, or is that just someone who looks like Dannii, unfortunetely the model Shane's got is Dannii circa 1992, tough luck. Shane is our scout for all things nerdy, i.e. computers, the internet and science fiction shows that, due to some secret pact between the Australian television networks and the anti-geek league are only shown a 1:15 in the morning.

Shane was the pockets Movie and TV reviewer, so unfortuntely much of his work was time specific and therefore has been lost - but his spirit lives on.

Where is she now? - Shane's life now is a tale of woe and disater - you see he has a huge Coke problem (as witnessed in the photo below). he spend his days robbing little old ladies for Coke money and his night watching star trek and thinking it's real - Coke will do funny things to you - like ruin you earsite and make you go bald.

Shane Today

The Guests

Kim and Bridge

Occasionally we invited others to rant and rave with us - two of these people were Kim and Bridge - Kim ranted, Bridge got here arse kicked in the great Debate.

More tales of woe here unfortunetly - Kim quite simply disappeared of the face of the planet, The photo below was the last ever taken of her. after this, she went out for a smoke and never came back. Bridge on the other hand went on to become a model for the 'really bad facial impression company' who specilize in provding models for the 'dorky guy in standing in the corner' type roles. Her portfolio shot is below - if you have a part for her contact her of 1800 BIG DORK.

The History of the Pocket.

The Editor

The Writers