tasteless weddings

Two tweets from Stephen Fry in Malaysia (he says he's here):

Tragedy is sharks fin is completely tasteless - soup has to be flavoured with chicken stock. Such a shame.

about 9 hours ago

150 million sharks killed a year. It's devastation. Almost entirely for the fins. Chinese weddings traditionally serve the soup.

about 9 hours ago

(Closer to home: this blogger is tweeting Salome in Birmingham this evening with Erika Sunnegårdh as Salome. The tweets will appear here. A piece about tweeting Mozart appears here.)