Last year I had a request from a Ukrainian company who wanted to translate Felafel and release it upon that long suffering country. It is now out and it has one of the best covers so far.
Feels like art. Also, look at my hair, my beautiful luxuriant Ukrainian hair.
Forgive me for a somewhat off-topic intrusion but I need your assistance JB. We are making a film about a wild woman friend who died a few years ago, named Ann Kearney. She grew up in Brisbane and, according to another friend, said that she was the woman you included in a story about a human battering ram - used I think to demolish a house or part thereof. She would in the 70s -80s have perfectly fitted the bill. We'd been led to believe it was in Felafel but I've re-read it twice and cannot find anything. Can you help us find the elusive passage if ever you wrote of such a deed? I'd be sooo chuffed if you could help.
Hey Cranky, I'd love to give you good news, but no, to the best of my knowledge your human batting ram lady did not feature in any of the felafel stories.
Currently working on a translation, guess the language? — Belarusian it is. Started just so I could share the content with my friends and we could have a good laugh all together, but now I see this Ukrainian cover and I think that maybe those Belarusian book shelves would like to get their own book with its own cover.
It was a common praxis in former Soviet Union, especially in cities like Moskau and Leningrad to live in a communal apartment. After the revolution all the big properties of the ruling class were divided amongst proletariat. Something like 10 bedroom apartments, where each family occupied one room with a common kitchen.
Forgive me for a somewhat off-topic intrusion but I need your assistance JB. We are making a film about a wild woman friend who died a few years ago, named Ann Kearney. She grew up in Brisbane and, according to another friend, said that she was the woman you included in a story about a human battering ram - used I think to demolish a house or part thereof. She would in the 70s -80s have perfectly fitted the bill. We'd been led to believe it was in Felafel but I've re-read it twice and cannot find anything. Can you help us find the elusive passage if ever you wrote of such a deed? I'd be sooo chuffed if you could help.
Hey Cranky, I'd love to give you good news, but no, to the best of my knowledge your human batting ram lady did not feature in any of the felafel stories.
Currently working on a translation, guess the language? — Belarusian it is. Started just so I could share the content with my friends and we could have a good laugh all together, but now I see this Ukrainian cover and I think that maybe those Belarusian book shelves would like to get their own book with its own cover.
That's gonna be a hell of a job for Bedes translating the stage version.
How do you say "bucket bong" in Ukrainian, asking for a friend.
Where's left that hasn't had a translation of Felafel that you really want to see?
Klingon
Aren't Ukrainian babies born with hair like that?
Do you think that there is an equivalent share-housing experience in Odessa?
Guessing not. Unless Russian hybrid war counts.
Maybe not. But I have to say The Ukrainian Babes Fiasco has a certain ring to it... 😁
I'm sure somewhere in Tassie has a sister city somewhere in Ukraine... Right?
It was a common praxis in former Soviet Union, especially in cities like Moskau and Leningrad to live in a communal apartment. After the revolution all the big properties of the ruling class were divided amongst proletariat. Something like 10 bedroom apartments, where each family occupied one room with a common kitchen.