Last week Genetic Savings and Clone (yes, their real name) of College Station, Texas announced that they successfully cloned a cat.
The ultimate aim, according to the popular press, of Genetic Savings and Clone is to one day clone your dead pets. The Humane Society suggests that such cloning “serves no compelling purpose.
The last time I went to Kinko’s, I left cursing under my breath without any copies. It was the day before Christmas Eve. I didn’t want to drive all the way from my house in South St. Louis to the DocUment copy center in Mallinckrodt (although the thought surely crossed my mind).
Why are we here?
I don’t ask this in any kind of philosophical way, but instead in a very matter-of-fact, practical, why in the name of all that is good are we back at Washington University when we left just a little over two weeks ago?
Today’s date is, let me check (as if I haven’t been stewing over it for most of winter break).January 10, 2002.
These are cold and trying times. Freezing rain is falling outside. The world is at war. The university needs to stand up and take action. Here’s what they’ve got to do:
Domesticated animals.
That’s right. A campus-wide infusion of dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters and the occasional sheep.
by Peter Hanrahan Winter Sleepers Starring: Ulrich Matthes, Marie Lou-Sellem, Floriane Daniel Directed by: Tom Tykwer How Much: $29.99 Way back in 1997, before anybody had heard of his rapid-fire film Run, Lola Run, German director Tom Tykwer, was taking life a little slower. Winter Sleepers turns on the same tokens of fate and chance [...]
Clear your mind, says Dr. Michael Lynch, and find a partner-because anyone who goes alone is crazy. We’re going into the attic of the Whittemore House, 6440 Forsyth, Washington University’s alumni club and restaurant. And we’re looking for ghosts. We have to go in with a clean slate, without pre-conceived ideas of what to look [...]
David Lynch draws on small, unsettling details to couch his decidedly bizarre worlds in even more unsettling-and very often true-blue-realities. Indeed, Lynch works with the in-between, the stuff that is unseen but ever-present, the supernatural that is all too natural. Mulholland Drive, Lynch’s latest outing, is no exception, and the cowboys, film directors and would-be starlets who populate his hallucinatory Hollywood fall somewhere between American archetypes and lost souls.
Call it the slaughter of innocents. Call it horticultural holocaust. Call it mass and senseless floracide. Every fall the university pilfers thousands of healthy flowers in-bloom from the sweet sweat of their comfortable greenhouses and rudely implants them throughout campus in mass graves fertilized with fresh manure. They sit pretty for a few infamous moments, [...]
Muse “New Born” As great a band as Radiohead is, sometimes you wish they would mix their gravitas more often into something you could bang your head to. That’s exactly what compatriots Muse do on “New Born,” which is a sort of “Kid A” Jr. We find the familiar, shudder-inducing, minor chords of “Creep,” or [...]
Spiritualized Let it Come Down by Taylor Upchurch Lazer Guided Melodies was the perfect title for Spiritualized’s perfect debut album in 1992. Formed by dream-pop mastermind Jason Pierce as a transition from his old band Spacemen 3, Spiritualized are a rather seamless continuation of the theme “Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To,” [...]
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