by Dave on January 21, 2010
Borat, Art, and the Eye of the Beholder
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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Over on the Mindless Diversions site...
Our intrepid commenter A Teacher tells the story of how he published his NaNoWriMo book (and, of course, tells us how we can get a copy of it for ourselves). ( 1 comments)
Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 9 comments)
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It’s too bad this hasn’t gotten any comments, because this is easily the greatest article I’ve read all week. It was worth it just for these 2 anecdotes:
Squeamish crowd.
That’s too bad. It’s like a fun-house mirror version of the whole MSM vs. internet argument, with ‘freaky ass shit’ replacing ‘original reporting’. How the whole porn stars moonlighting as hookers angle metaphorically translates to the journalism profession was especially apropos, since most of the ex-journalists I know work in corporate PR now.
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