Did he play drums for Uriah Heep? Just kidding. No, I don't know him.
Yes, I read Black Swan, a good few years ago now and found it an interesting read. Enough at least to have other books of his on my very long list that I haven't got round to investing in/borrowing (so not "godlike-genius-interesting").
But, yes, there's stuff there that gets the cogs whirring and, to my mind at least, he's a lucid enough thinker. I didn't find the book particularly difficult, nor did I find Taleb arrogant, though having educated myself through reading a succession of English aristocrats, it's entirely possible that what others define as arrogance, I merely think of as jocular sarcasm.
He has interesting ideas but he needs a stronger editor. He tends to ramble on too much. His Black Swan book could be about a third shorter than it's present form.
I read Fooled By Randomness, most of it anyway, and on the basis of that decided not to read his Black Swan. His writing seemed self-absorbed and unfocused and I didn’t have the patience to indulge the rambling.