18 9 / 2008
on diplomacy and an expanded worldview.
- Yo: ha
- so, today i went to a meeting by the World Bank
- and there was free wine
- shrimps
- hors devooors
- etc
- served on silver platters by dudes in bow ties
- Yo: oh nice
- they just skim a little off the top of the Laotian GDP or something?
- Yo: hahahaha
- it was cohosted by USAID
- so maybe it was our tax dollars
- Yo: they are like, Kosovo won't miss this at all! get extra shrimp!
- Yo: hahahaha
- i learned something rad though
- (Well, lots rad, but this fact is best)
- Yo: ?
- Yo: after agriculture, nigeria's biggest industry is cinema
- Yo: dang!
- Yo: "Nollywood" employs
- 1,000,000 people
- Yo: whoa!
- Yo: and makes more movies per year than Bollywood. And, of course, Hollywood.
- Yo: amazing!
- Yo: weird, no?
- Yo: yeah... that seems a very large chunk of the Nigerian population?
- also, why have we not seen any of these films?
- Yo: for reals.
- and who watches them?
