Tuesday September 14, 2004

Truth and Fiction. Both Strange.

In Daniel’s very funny new piece for The New Yorker, the press secretary for the Embassy of Kazakhstan responds to the way his country is portrayed by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on HBO’s Da Ali G Show. It turns out that in the real Kazakhstan, “women are not kept in cages. The national sport is not shooting a dog and then having a party” and “you cannot earn a living being a Gypsy catcher.” But then, well, there is this one sport that involves a dead goat.