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Published Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 | 10:01 a.m.
Updated Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 | 12:42 p.m.
This "unicorn" made brief appearance Wednesday night at a birthday party for Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
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Apparently imported from North Korea, a unicorn was spotted Wednesday night in downtown Las Vegas in, of all places, a bar.
Friends of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh were stunned to see the magical beast for a brief moment inside the Downtown Cocktail Room, where dozens of revelers were helping celebrate Hsieh’s 39th birthday.
OK, so it wasn’t a real unicorn. And now the North Korean news agency is saying initial reports of finding a “unicorn lair” resulted from a mistranslation.
The unicorn at the “DCR” was a rented pony adorned with a single-horned headgear to make it look like the majestic beast.
As it was put by one reveler, Krissee Danger, who works with Downtown Project – part of Hsieh’s grand plan to foster “community” downtown through a variety of directives – ”no one really said anything (about the pony); everyone was just sort of speechless.”
But why a unicorn?
“We wanted to get a llama-corn,” Danger said, citing Hsieh’s affinity for llamas. “But the harness didn’t work.”
But why a unicorn, which was a pony
“Llamas and unicorns, we just like ‘em,” Danger said.
Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts complex.
Llama-corn: An obscene and embarrassing display of wealth and ignorance of everything else going on in the world around them. The cost wasted on this could have fed 10 poor families for a week. the cost of this party could have fed 100 poor families for a month. Just as this poor animal was returned to its stable and the drunks from the party were addressing their hangovers the next morning 20 little kids lost their lives. Tony and his Downtown collective are the next flavor of the moment and it is delicious and addictive like lines on pure white coke on a beautiful mirror being cut by his black card. It will be fleeting, as Amazon picks up and moves Zappo's somewhere else.