Great name for a restaurant?
Not really! Who on earth would come up with such a name for a restaurant?
Puneet Sabhlok actually has. Naturally there is some upcry about his restaurant name in Bombay, India. Apparently over the first days of opening he even had a Hitler poster on the wall. What a freak!
Wim Delvoye was born in 1965, in Wervik, Belgium. He lives and works in Gent and London.
Wim came to my attention recently during a program on our national broadcaster, the ABC. The show concentrated on “Cloaca” an installation created by Wim to replicate the human digestive system. Essentially the project allows the artist to insert food in one end and, after a series of processes we are all too familiar with, he is left with, well, faeces.
Over the last week or so, the house looks to have been spreading through England (what’s the rest of the Empire doing, I ask you). Anyway, it is to these readers that I throw this post. Why? Because I want an explanation. Allow me to do the initial explaining.
A couple of days ago I was reading the paper over a relaxing lunch when I noticed an article screaming ‘Dozens injured as cheese roll goes crackers’. What?!? Upon reading further I got to this:
“Of the 25 people hurt, 12 were spectators, one of whom was hit by one of the hard, 4kg, dinner-plate-sized cheeses used in each race, but only two people were taken to hospital for further assessment.”
I ask you, who chases a 4kg cheese down a hill? Haven’t these people heard of golf? What about internet porn? So I wondered whether this was a one-off and the Daydreamer was kind enough to point out this sort of thing has been going on for some time. How long? Well, as it turns out, this sort of thing has a history and a long one at that. Doctor Danger even has a little section of helpful hints for prospective competitors. There’s still one thing that bothers me: why the hell would anyone do this? Surely alochol has to be invovled. Nobody would do this if they were sober, right?
To our English readers I throw this question: WHY????????
Please note, I use the culture tag with great reservation
