Autocrat - Cool
Maybe it's just me, but I can't help but wish that heads of state were a little, well, cooler. Ok, we've got Nick Sarkozy's singing supermodel wife, but Nicky himself looks kind of Euro-stuffy most of the time. We've got Vlad Putin, he of the dead eyes and the Judo, but in spite of the fact that he wears a mean suit and can have you whacked anytime he wants, I'm pretty sure he's not cool. Barack and Michelle, smart, driven, attractive, erudite, with shirtsleeves in the Oval office and bare-chested on the beach in Hawaii (Barack, not Michelle) are about the closest we can get to a genuinely COOL head of state.
That is, up until now. Show me a dictator with the look of a stoned surfer who digs Ravi Shankar and just took a big hit and is grooving on a zither solo and I'm gonna take the position that dude is cool. I mean the other side of the MATTERESS cool, the kind of brutal autocrat you'd want to have a beer with.
Or maybe a toke.
Hang ten, Muammar...
posted by mikey @ 2:30 PM
3 Comments:
I saw a news clip and couldn't decide if he was the funniest thing I'd ever seen, or the smoothest leader Africa has ever produced.
But really, what the hell is that thing he has on? and where can I get one?
He looks like he's holding on for dear life. But the scraggly goatee pulls the entire ensemble together & makes it say "Uncle!"
He looks like he's trippin' balls, hanging onto the table like that.
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