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by Amanda on Mar 12th, 2013
Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s latest column for Random House Struik, “Coining new words, a sorry tale”:
For some time now, I’ve been trying to invent a new word. Well, that’s not quite true – I’ve invented plenty of new words, mostly late at night while enjoying a glass of liquid late-supper in the slightly furtive company of RuPaul’s Drag Race or Hoarders: Buried Alive!, but the trick is to get other people to use them too. Using a word that only you know to be a word is a fast trip to becoming that weird guy on your street whose TV is never off and who sometimes trundles out his wheelie-bin in his underwear and claims he owns a tortoise and sporadically makes strange sounds out loud. It doesn’t help when you explain that those aren’t strange sounds, those are new words you made up last night: your neighbours still regard you with civic suspicion, as though you’re about to invite their children to come over and see your tortoise again.
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by Amanda on Dec 12th, 2012
Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s third column for Random House Struik, “This is how the world ends – not with a bang but a can of tuna”:
So the Mayan apocalypse is now only days away, and I still haven’t laid in my stocks of canned tuna. Well, no, let me not be an enfrightened scare-monger: I do have a couple of cans in the cupboard, the swanky kind with their own handy pull-tabs so that I won’t need to carry a can-opener with me when I wonder out into the colour-drained post-apocalypto wasteland with a shopping cart and a kid and a loaded gun, which is the part I’m mainly looking forward to, except for the kid, but I’ll probably have one of them for lunch. One of the cans of tuna, I mean, not the kid. Say, tuna doesn’t have carbs, does it?
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by Amanda on Nov 14th, 2012
Darryl Bristow-Bovey’s second column for Random House Struik, “A forest of reasons not to write a novel”:
Say, are you writing a novel at the moment? Oh now, go on, don’t be shy, you’re not alone. Well, you are alone, obviously, in the sense that we are all of us alone on this long lurch down the darkling trail between the cradle and the grave, and also in the sense that writing a novel, if you do it properly, is as lonely an occupation as you could choose that doesn’t involve a single-handed sea-going circumnavigation of the world, or creating a centre of excellence at the SABC, or being a serial killer or a mime.
(Which makes me wonder: why are mimes so undesirable as husbands? Unlike the rest of us with our couches and TVs, you’d imagine at the end of a long hard day of work they’d probably come home and want to talk. Ladies, you don’t know what you’re missing.)
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by Amanda on Oct 19th, 2012
Jy staan die kans om ‘n geskenkpakkie met die boeke Idees vol vrees en Idees vol vrees: Volume 2 deur Kobus Galloway te wen, sowel as ‘n Idees vol vrees-beker, -t-hemp, -voorskoot, -muismatjie en -tekenprent van jou keuse!
Om aan die kompetisie deel te neem en ‘n kans te staan om te wen, moet jy slegs jou besonderhede op Random House Struik se webtuiste invul. Inskrywings sluit 13 November 2012.
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by Amanda on Oct 5th, 2012
Kobus Galloway se Idees Vol Vrees-tekenprente is nou nóg meer bekend as wat dit ’n jaar gelede was: sy aanhangers op Facebook het verdubbel tot meer as 50 000, en die eerste IVV-boek was ’n reuse sukses. Hierdie ongewone, spitsvondige en grappige Afrikaanse tekenprente, wat gewoonlik gepaard gaan met dubbelsinnige eenreël-woordspelings, is ’n groot gunsteling onder Suid-Afrikaners. Wonderlik vir die klaskamer, die braai of selfs die koffietafel!
Idees Vol Vrees Volume 2 bevat meer as 150 tekenprente, waaronder die gewildstes (dié waarvan Facebook-gebruikers die meeste hou) en meer as 100 nuwe tekenprente wat nog nêrens anders verskyn het nie. Dit is ’n moet-hê vir die tienduisende bestaande bewonderaars, en sal ongetwyfeld ’n hele klomp nuwes skep. As ’n bonus is daar ook 50 oorspronklike eenreël-woordspeling grappies wat deur Kobus geskryf is bygevoeg.
Oor die outeur
Kobus Galloway het op sesjarige ouderdom begin teken, en het ná skool grafiese ontwerp gestudeer. Hy woon nou in Kaapstad, waar hy as ’n illustreerder en infografiese ontwerper vir Media24 se weeklikse tydskrifte.
In sy vrye tyd is Kobus ’n skerpskertser en vryskut-ontwerper / illustreerder. Hy is die eienaar van Komedie Media CC en het reeds met plaaslike kunstenaars soos Marion Holm, Pierre Breytenbach en Casper de Vries saamgewerk.
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by Amanda on Jun 26th, 2012
Pieter-Dirk Uys, who helped Evita Bezuidenhout’s younger sister, Bambi Kellerman, write her controversial autobiography Never Too Naked, was interviewed on the Expresso morning show about his new stage show, Adapt or Fly, currently showing at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. Uys mentioned that Bezuidenhout, who was interviewed later on in the show, thinks that he is a third rate comedian and that they no longer speak to each other.
Tannie Evita, the most famous white woman in South Africa and the best bobotie maker, helped the Expresso team out by presenting the weather forecast. She also talked about her love of cooking and advised Gwede Mantashe to put down the chocolate and start eating yoghurt.
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by Amanda on Mar 2nd, 2012
Zebra Press invites you to come and meet Bruce Sutherland, cartoonist and creator of Faceless, at EnGedi on 21 March.
Sutherland will be joined by David Bullard, author of Out to Lunch…Ungagged, and the duo will chat about their work, and share some insights while you have a bite to eat and something to drink at the Oasis in the Cradle’s Bistro.
Booking is essential. See you there!
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- Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2012
- Time: 1:30 PM
- Venue: EnGedi,
The Oasis in the Cradle, Plot 22,
Protea Ridge Road/Honingklip Road,
Kromdraai, Cradle of Humankind,
Krugersdorp | Map
- Booking (essential): info@en-gedi.co.za,
011 589 3495, 076 681 7295
www.en-gedi.co.za
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by Amanda on Jan 19th, 2012
Come meet Bruce Sutherland for a discussion about his “hilarious” and “profane” book, Faceless.
Sutherland will be at Indulgence Cafe on Saturday 28 January at 2 PM.
See you there!
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- Date: Saturday, 28 January 2012
- Time: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
- Venue: Indulgence Cafe,
225 Beyers Naude Drive,
Northcliff,
Johannesburg | Map
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by Amanda on Dec 5th, 2011
Join Bambi Kellermann, the sister of the famous Evita Bezuidenhout, for the launch of her shocking tell-all biography, Never Too Naked.
Tonight, Bambi will be entertaining guests at Exclusive Books, V&A Waterfront at 6.00 for 6.30 PM.
Don’t miss Bambi in action!
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by Amanda on Nov 2nd, 2011
Faceless is an irreverent, controversial and hilarious cartoon strip that started as a Web-based comic and quickly acquired a huge following. Although the ‘faceless’ characters are amusing and entertaining, the content is not for the faint-hearted! Faceless never pulls any punches, expressing those sentiments readers feel but never dare verbalise for fear of being judged ‘politically incorrect’.
Although the primary function of Faceless is to amuse and entertain, it always evokes a response of some sort, often shocking readers out of their apathy. As the author says, ‘The only thing worse than people talking about you is people NOT talking about you.’ In this comic strip there are no holy cows – the comments and observations, and generally taking the Mickey out of people, are aimed at everyone. A true original!
Visit the Faceless website.
About the author
Bruce Sutherland spent 23 years in the corporate IT world, where he was a divisional executive for one of the biggest IT companies in South Africa and one of the original computer nerds.
As an early adopter of the internet and its technologies, he built his first website in 1994 and set up his own joke site in 1996, which was featured in The Citizen.
In 2008, as a victim of restructuring, he found himself with a lot of time on his hands and finally knuckled down to something he’d contemplated doing for a long time: supplementing his joke site. And so Faceless was born in 2009, after many different characters, figures and styles were tried and discarded. As it gained a following, strips were spotted in the wild (behind toilet doors, on other websites, in emails sent on by friends and, more recently, in Playboy South Africa), and there was an increasing demand for a book.
He self-published the first Faceless book in 2010. Bruce lives on a game farm in the Cradle of Humankind, and makes knives by hand as a hobby.
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