Week 27 - Monkey Art On The Moon

Dogs can read you know. We tear up the paper to hide the fact that we slobber on the pages whilst turning them. I read yesterday that there might be an art chip left on the moon. FAT DOG prefers the Internet and news like this is my favorite!

PBS’s History Detectives TV says there’s a tiny art museum on the moon. This rectangular, half-inch-by-three-quarter-inch ceramic chip was stowed away by the Apollo 12 crew on the great lunar schlep and it’s still up there.
The group canvas is mostly circuitry-esque, geometric shapes. Robert Rauschenberg drew a line. Claes Oldenburg drew Mickey Mouse’s head on a pike with his tongue jutting out. Andy Warhol drew a rocket. The kind that’s in your pants.

Mickey Mouse? Looks like a monkey to me!

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Week 26 - A Cure for Hiccups!

Dogs don't get hiccups. But this one really works on humans... trust me this is not a joke.

THE CURE: Place your fingers in your ears and drink water. You can either get a friend to gently tip half a glass(don't use full glass) to your mouth or use a straw. One good sip and swallow works by equalizing the pressure in your ears. Works every time to everyone's amazement.

Just tell them a little dog told you the secret!

Week 25 - Culture Is Not Just For Dogs?

Look at these two contemporary images from the 1560's.... 450 years ago. That is something like 20 generations past. Look at the centre of both images. Something is going on out of context. Can you see what it is? The message is that miracles go on all about us, our daily life continues and we miss the important events.

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Explanation: Procession to Calvary, Pieter Bruegel, 1564. oil on panel 124x170cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum - This panoramic biblical scene is one of the most perfect depictions of humanity's mocking cruelty, insensitivity, and capacity for love. The scene set in a incredibly beautiful and haunting landscape is filled with as much laughter as it is terror. The clouds give the impression that God is just over the horizon and is not at all pleased with humanity. The notion that life goes on even in the face of brutality and terror makes this scene all the more compelling. Christ carries the cross in the centre whilst Mary weeps in the foreground. The soldiers gather in the top right. The crow waits for death (top right). So look again....


Explanation: The Census at Bethlehem, Pieter Bruegel, 1566 - Oil on oak, 116 x 164 cm. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels - It is Christmas. A cozy winter tableau of an average village in Brabant. The inn is crowded. In mid-foreground, a woman seated on an ass, in the company of a man with a saw on his shoulder leading an ox – Mary and Joseph, of course, on their way to Bethlehem. In the exact centre of the picture is the Wheel of Time...


..if you don't look you don't see.

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Week 24 - Beef, Couscous Salad

STEAK & COUSCOUS SALAD *****

Beef steak - cut into strips.
Lettuce shredded.
Lemon.
Couscous.
Tomatoes - vine x2
Olive oil - x4 caps
Balsamic vinegar - x2 caps
Greek yogurt
Mint fresh
Coriander
English mustard - x1 heaped teaspoon
Whole gran mustard - x1 heaped teaspoon
Bell peeper x1 cut into thumb size pieces
Small chillies x2

There are four elements for this dish

1) the beef,
2) a mint/lemon/coriander yogurt dressing,
3) tomatoes in mustard
4) & couscous and peppers.

An amazing salad for summer. For the yogurt dressing mix chopped coriander, chopped mint with cup of plain yogurt and add good squeeze of lemon, salt and pepper. Then chill in fridge. Pour boiling water onto a cup full of couscous in a bowl then pour off excess water straight away and stir in chopped mint and coriander. Cover, stir and set aside. Shred lettuce and chill in fridge. Slice the tomatoes then put in small bowl with the olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper, chopped chillies, and both mustards. Stir to coat and cover and chill in fridge. Leave all this in fridge to chill and after 30min quickly fry the chopped bell pepper and add to the couscous then fry the beef strips with salt and pepper in a pan with the olive oil. Serve (the tomato oil/mustard dressing goes on the salad). Just as good cold as hot.