Via David Weigel, here’s a great profile of the blogosphere’s renaissance man.
Is Tyler Cowen autistic?
Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.
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Human Hireling Sunday! Oh. My. God.
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~ Off the Cuff
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].
( 2 comments)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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Was he actually medically diagnosed with it?
The real question is not when to walk out of a Ben Stiller movie. It’s why anyone would buy a ticket in the first place.
@Jason Kuznicki, Rent “Tropic Thunder” and then talk to me. I hate to defend Ben Stiller, but that movie cracked me up.
@Jason Kuznicki,
There are two kinds of Ben Stiller movies. Movies Starring Ben Stiller, which are to be avoided at all costs, and Movies By Ben Stiller, which are very good (all two of them).
@Jason Kuznicki,
The Royal Tenenbaums.
Also, am I alone in finding Tyler Cowen vastly overrated?
I DUNNO BUT HE’S AN EXCELLENT DRIVER.
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