From: stefan.kapus@zetnet.co.uk (Stefan Elisa Kapusniak)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Attack of the 43 foot Spot
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 20:25:52 +0100
Organization: The Court of the Queen-Architect
 
   MSNBC, retyping the wire report from Associated Press, who
   watched the whole thing on NATIONAL TV, told us:

> GIANT PUPPY UNLEASHED IN NEW YORK

  "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAaaaaaH!!!" cried Einstein as
   Spot, now nearly 50 foot high after eating the new
   improved Stockmeiler Industries 'Slime Puppy Chow for
   Slimes', accidentally stepped on Einstein's medulla
   shattering his newly developed sony MP3 decoder ring
   implant.
   

>  NEW YORK, June 6 --  Call it puppy love.

  'OH NO, ITS HUMPING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH!!!!'


>  After weeks of being shrouded in scaffolding, a giant puppy
>  topiary covered in 60,000 flowers was unveiled in Rockefeller
>  Center. The artist told NBC's "Today Show" Tuesday that he
>  is hoping that it will bring people "a little happiness."

>  THE 43-FOOT-HIGH sculpture, standing on the site where the
>  Rockefeller Center Christmas tree stands during the holidays,

  'WAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAH!!!!' cried Spot as he
   suddenly realised the EXACT number of shopping days his
   bladder would have to hold out.


>  is the work of American artist Jeff Koons.
         
  [ Didn't this guy used to be married or some reasonable
    facsimile to a Member of the European Parliament/Italian
    pr0n star...?  Or did I just feel my mind going Dave? ]


>  It has been exhibited since 1992 in Germany and Australia,
>  and another "Puppy" is a permanent fixture in the avant-garde
>  Guggenheim museum in Bilboa, Spain.

   ...where during the Civil War, Fascist forces used it
   and similarly sculpted giant animals arrayed in light tank
   divisions against Durutti and his partisans, providing
   the Discovery Channel with its vital access to the
   fashionable topiary and garden makeover demographic.


>  Koons said he is thrilled to have "Puppy" at Rockefeller Center.
>  "It's the center of the universe,"

  'Just like a giant plutonium atom! And it has exactly
   23 decimal places of similarity to the cubic nature of
   George Hammonds brain!'

                                       he said of the square which
>  averages 300,000 visitors a day.  "It's a utopia here with all
>  the people walking by."

  'All of them thinking completely extensionally!  Becoming
   less unsane every moment.  Some of them may even hope to
   qualify for relocation to the lush forests of Venus!'


>  The sculpture, weighing 150 tons, has a stainless steel frame
>  covered with 25 tons of soil kept fresh by an internal
>  irrigation system.

  'WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAAaaaH!!!!' cried Spot as the
   his internal irrigation system was suddenly activated in
   order to keep his soil fresh.


>  "I hope `Puppy' is really a symbol of art that makes no judgment
>  on people," he said, noting that art shouldn't be intimidating to
>  people," he said.

  'That why I had to make it 43-foot high and weigh 150 tons.
   SO NO-ONE COULD POSSIBLY BE INTIMIDATED.'


-- Kapusniak, Stefan e