I know it’s completely inappropriate to think that anything about the Liberian situation is funny, but has anyone else noticed that the Liberian former vice-president, now president, is called Mr. Blah? It makes it difficult for me to read the news articles without picturing him as a cartoon character who suffers from ennui and is drawn with indistinct borders, kind of like Pig Pen, only more existential.
Consider this statement: “If Blah takes over, we will fight back.” This was spoken by a senior member of Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, a group otherwise known as LURD. Really, LURD. I think Liberians need better branding. Jay, do you want to get on this? At least they are already snappy dressers.
Welcome, Anika, to the postocracy of nonfamous.com! So glad you’re with us now. And what an inaugural post– I had almost commented on this a day or so ago, completely agog at the humorous potential of the terrible Liberia situation. Who was it who said, “History repeats itself twice: first as tragedy, then as farce”? In Liberia, the process is apparently simultaneous.
Someone should tell Eddie Izzard about this. Apparently his “transvestite batallion” sketch is based in fact!