Monthly Archives: August 2008

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House-sized dog poo causes chaos at museum

Posted Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:30am AEST
Updated Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:32am AEST

A giant inflatable dog poo by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.

The art work, titled Complex Shit, is the size of a house.

The wind carried it 200 metres from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children’s home, museum director Juri Steiner said.

The inflatable poo broke the window at the children’s home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said.

The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.

Mr Steiner said Mr McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if Complex Shit would be put back on display.

– AFP

Tweets on 2008-08-10

  • Looking at the weather outside whistling innocently and pretending it wouldn’t know *how* to rain. #
  • @willhowells check copywrite plate to see if acknowledged. If not, write to publisher of plagiarised text. #
  • Waiting for the congregation of naughty men to take their seats. #

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Tweets on 2008-08-09

  • Deciding a lunchtime pint is not a good idea today when energy levels are already falling. #
  • Wondering why I’ve had loads of missed calls from “Excel Communications” over the last week. #
  • Desperately in need of a siesta #
  • Spending hours and hours practicing this Howells piece to make sure it sounds properly wrong. #
  • Hysteria during the psalms at the idea of the sound of the trump from the Lord on his holy seat. #
  • Sitting at a table for two in a nice chinese restaurant next to what sounds like really heavy-handed seduction. #

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Tweets on 2008-08-08

  • I’m being followed by the Beaver of Bad News. Hope that isn’t some kind of portent. #
  • Trying to work out how you sing the phrase “hasteth to devour” in under 2 seconds. #
  • V tempted to steal the vergers’ doughnuts. #
  • Trying to remember who wrote The Color Purple. Pretty sure it wasn’t Witney Houston. #
  • @dr_nick your’s or patient’s or noah’s? #

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Tweets on 2008-08-07

  • Slightly strange dream involving being rushed to A&E to have inadvertently swallowed 20p piece removed. #
  • @dr_nick it was stuck in my throat and was removed with forceps #
  • Looking at Avebury standing stones. #
  • Sheltering from rain in historic 17th century chapel. #
  • Taking out a second mortgage for an ill-advised National Trust cream tea. #
  • @markpack @willhowells is it something to do with weather? Isobars? #
  • Squirrels are throwing nutshells at me. Trying not to take it personally. #
  • Getting back into the Cathedral close just in the nick of time. #

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Tweets on 2008-08-05

  • This morning’s breakfast was worryingly continental. No bacon, no sing. #
  • To tune of cym rhondda… Mug of coffee! lemonade! All adds up to three pounds ten (three pounds ten!) #
  • Pub menu has something called chessy chips, unfortunately I’m allergic to pawns. #
  • Discussing the merits of Our Saviour Tortoise. #

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