That’s His Tory, and He’s Ticking To It
May 8, 2008 by Scott Lahti
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