I loved Borat. It was funny and profane. I went with lkmadigan and it was just what I needed. Lisa laughed so hard she inhaled a nut from a piece of candy.
USA Today reports that Sasha Cohen, Borat’s creator, signed his new Boart book in character. He bantered (if that’s the right word) with the crowd. Here are some of my favorite lines:
“Among the hundreds who crowded the second floor of the Borders bookstore were dozens of kids accompanied by parents. Even Borat, whose comedy pushes the limits of R-rated, seemed to be caught off-guard by the young fans. Baron Cohen didn't break character, but the mustachioed performer looked surprised as he scanned the crowd and said in lilting broken English: "Wahwahweewah! Very nice! There are many childrens here! … You are gypsies? I can buy you?"
He asked a woman who had a hoop nose-ring: "It is for your husband to pull when he need to attach you to plow?"
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A little while back someone in the office pointed out this interesting piece about the rise of AIDS among young men in NYC. I started wondering what could be done and I took my query to Mary Ann Cohen a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the co-editor of the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry. Cohen wrote me back with the following illuminating response.
During a century when rapid advances in medicine led to near eradication of infectious diseases throughout much of the world, the emergence of HIV infection in 1981 led to an unexpected crisis in health care that has not yet resolved. (more…)
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Happy Friday to all! It’s a rainy day out there so I suggest curling up with your laptop and exploring the links below. Get clicking!
Leonard Cohen on how to “speak” poetry.
The most ingenious billboard in the world.
On writing too well for the internet.
Did the author commit the murder he wrote his crime book about?
A poem excerpt that makes me glow.