From my appendix to Spy magazine’s old “Separated at Birth” archives, two characters you won’t see in the same room any time soon:
1. Hasan Elahi, the gold-dyed Bangladesh-born Rutgers prof and artist whose exonerative response to being added erroneously to a federal terror-watch list came in his photo-documenting his cross-country surroundings for the FBI, and his web site hundreds of times daily, along with dutiful notification of local FBI field officers throughout; using Elahi’s own web site, TrackingTransience.net, Comedy Central web-reconaissance last night traced him to the studios of The Colbert Report:
AND –
2. Boris Johnson, peroxide-shocked Tory-eccentric new mayor of London:
And if Colbert continues to subject himself to finger-shocking exercises in obscenity-laced controlled pain – courtesy of veteran NYT science hand George Johnson, his guest last night -
he, too, might soon greet the cameras with citrus-singed scalp.
I saw Elahi on Colbert. His hair was impressive. He wasnt as nutty as I thought he would be.
Steve