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...final edition of In the Mix. I would wax nostalgic, but then I'm not sure of how successful this has been. For that matter, I'm not even sure anyone reads this column. It's not even columnar in shape, damn it. Maybe I'll just wane nostalgic. Wane. Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent...
Finally, host pre-frosh. If you love it here, tell them why. If you don't, tell them that too. Wax nostalgic if you must (and we all do sometimes), but then go out and do something you'll enjoy and remember. It's college, after all, and the years do pass quickly...
...looking for a hotspot, try the Wisconsin Dells-a budget-friendly Disney World with miles upon miles of lined-up attractions. Want to be a care-free kid again? In one afternoon, you can hit Ripley's Believe it or Not, The Dungeon of Tortures, The Rock Star Wax Museum, Clown Heaven and Robot World all for about $20. It's all about cross-cultural exchange-urban families are flocking to Wisconsin to avoid the Orlando crowds and to expose their children to the wonders of gem mining, fishing and cooking your own meat. Will it last? Of course...
...this the year they canceled spring training? It might be going on somewhere, but to read the papers or watch the sportscasts, you wouldn't know it. Just a decade ago, it was almost obligatory for a writer to pad down in March to some funky Florida field and wax poetic about the summer game. Today you're lucky if you can find a single line of baseball coverage. Spring once meant the crack of the bat, the smell of the grass. Today it means college hoops, March Madness...
...past couple of years is that they help us rethink our affection for pure camp by asking a simple but all-important question--is it possible for a work of art to be just plain weird? Can art cultivate its own apolitical pathology of weirdness, like a wax museum, or is weirdness always a subversive comment on a world that is itself, a priori, weird? The Wilson twins, Jane and Louise, balk neither at the weirdness of the world nor the weirdness of the work of art. They give us something fearless and fresh, something that dumbfounds, something that makes...