seriesofnonsequiturs:

miraniel:

The latest addition to the “Headlines I Wouldn’t Have Believed If You’d Showed Them to Me a Year Ago But At This Point I’ve Stopped Questioning the Things 2016 Has Decided to Throw at Us” cauldron:

So in case you’re not in the English Department at a small liberal arts college, or anywhere else that these sorts of things get gossiped about, Bob Dylan was just awarded the Nobel Prize… for Literature. 

Which of course has prompted all these heated debates about whether or not he deserves it, whether there should be a music category for the Nobel Prize (there isn’t), whether he’s done enough to be placed in the same company as Gabriel García Márquez and Pablo Neruda and, blah, blah, blah.

But the best bit?

THE NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE CAN’T GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM.

That’s right. Bob Dylan isn’t answering his freaking phone. 

Odd Zschiedrich, the administrative director of the Swedish Academy that oversees the Nobel Prize, told CNN “We have stopped trying – we said everything we needed to his manager and friend, he knows about us being eager having confirmation from him, but we haven’t heard anything back.“ 

Apparently, they’ll still reserve him a space at the ceremony in December, which includes a banquet with the Swedish Royal Family, but they have no idea whether or not he’ll show up.

I can’t stop laughing. What the heck is 2016.

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