Artist eats dog to protest prince’s hunting
British performance artist Mark McGowan ate a few bites of a corgi dog live on the radio to protest Prince Philip’s hunting of a fox. Yoko Ono had a bite as well. The corgi is apparently the Queen’s favorite breed. According to McGowan, it tastes lousy.
The dog died of natural causes at a corgi breeder and was prepared and cooked by others for McGowan…
McGowan is well known for his outlandish performance stunts. He ate a swan in another protest against the queen. Swans are protected by the monarchy.
Reminds me of that old quote about when a dog bites a man, it isnt news… but when a man bites a dog, its a story.
Little boy ruins sand mandala
Last week, eight Tibetan monks were halfway complete with an incredibly intricate sand mandala they were creating in Kansas City’s Union Station when a young boy went under the protective rope and messed up the entire design. The monks were gone when it happened but the episode was caught on a security camera.
“He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it,” said Lama Chuck Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.
A security tape shows the boy’s mother returning to the mandala, grabbing her son by the arm and walking out of camera range…
“No problem,” Geshe Lobsang Sumdup, leader of the group from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India, said through a translator. “We didn’t get despondent. We have three days more. So we will have to work harder.”
Make all your phones ring at once
GrandCentral: Have a cell phone, a work phone and a business phone? This free service gives you one number that will ring all of them at once. Reviews: Slate, NYT, CNET
Jobs and Gates interviewed together at the D5 conference
The Bill and Steve show: Jobs and Gates sit down together and discuss the past, present and future at the D5 conference.
