Infinite MonkeysBy way of Reason comes this completely bizarre tale of Bruce Lee's posthumous career as world peace ambassador to Bosnia. The stage is set:
The kung fu movie star Bruce Lee would have turned 65 in November, and a two-ring media circus descended on Mostar, Bosnia, for his birthday. It was then, in this mortar- and bullet-pocked city once famous for its Ottoman bridge, that the world’s first public monument to Lee was unveiled. Building civil society never seemed so weird: Here was a life-sized bronze statue of a topless American immigrant paid for by the German government and christened by a Chinese diplomat, erected at the behest of a dysfunctional community of Croats, Serbs, and Muslims.
But, as the reader soon discovers, you -- and by "you," in this instance, I mean the villagers of Mostar -- can't have nice things.
(Hat tip: Wretchard)
Posted by H.L. Monkey at April 21, 2006 09:14 PM