Goodbye to another week, though I'm going to be working all weekend marking exam scripts. Good thing next weekend is Easter.

Watched "Borat" on DVD this week. For some reason I was revving myself up to not like it, but I was still braying with laughter at a lot of bits. There's no doubting the guy has balls of steel- there are some bits where he risks an absolute kicking, and another with a certain very famous celeb where he himself could quite easily have been charged with assault.

Other times you wonder why he's bothering- the person involved doesn't really seem to deserve it, and the overwhelming feeling is just mutual incomprehension. And the depictions of "Khazakh" life at the start I can understand might just put out some of that country's populace. If the artifice helps to mislead some of the people who he's prompting into saying hateful things, great, but we KNOW it's a front, so what's the point of caricaturing poor people as ignorant and inbred ? The Romanians who actually populate the village where it's shot don't seem to mind though.