After reading various blog sites, web forums, and watching a number of documentaries and talk shows, I've reached the following conclusion. The accepted method of becoming a self appointed literary expert is as follows: Scour the internet until you find some obscure author who hasn't sold a single copy of their book in their native country, but once won "book of the week" award from a village reading circle somewhere in Czechoslovakia. You then denounce any acknowledged author that anyone has heard of as lacking any depth and proudly proclaim your own prowess as a literary connoisseur by trumpeting your recently discovered literary giant.
This is pretty much a foolproof system. Movie experts fall under the same category. Just pick any movie which once nearly came third at the Budapest Independant Film Festival and no one will question a thing. Sporting experts can also be born if they can rummage up a shotput thrower from 1921, hailing from some remote village on Crete and then proceed to announce that they would beat any current athlete. Brilliant when you never have to prove anything.
I once ran 2 laps with former mile record holder, John Walker. Why am I not at the London Olympics ? There's no justice in this world.
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