Section B·Page 6
The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 21, 1999
Wandering the Web
One page (www.noage.com/jfknetwork) gave me pause after Saturday's news that John F. Kennedy, Jr. was missing. It's called the JFK Network and is a celebration of the life and work of one of America's most beloved presidents. It was modified this weekend to reflect the sorrow shared by the editor and the nation that tragedy has once befallen Camelot. For many, John represented the possibility that his father's work could be continued by a new generation. But the torch has once more been passed. I hope that my generation may prove itself worthy of such a trust.
In keeping with this week's theme of the strange and unexplained, I set out to search the World Wide Web for as much weird stuff as I could find. In the course of that search, I looked for everything from abductions to conspiracy theories. (Hey, I'm an X-Files fan; I know what I'm looking for here!)
Now, on to the rest of my search results.
www.thex-files.com
This is Fox-TV'S official X-Files Web site it includes pictures and biographies of cast members. There's an episode guide for those of you who haven't followed every season with religious zeal. The site also includes an archive of newspaper and magazine articles about the show and list of stores where X-philes can satisfy their needs for hats
Jennifer Roush
jrush@kansan.com
reading "The truth is out there."
Did your list of compiles ever
http://7.dusters.smipnet.com
The X-Files Haven for the FBI's Most Unwanted is another online tribute to Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. It includes fan fiction, a message board where fans can chat with one
another and links to lots of other really great X-Files sites.
www.alienbabv.com
■ www.execulink.com/~chettle/
abductee.htm
If you're interested in alien abduction accounts and other extraterrestrial phenomena without all the pesky plot and character development of television drama, this is the site for you. It has links for every sort of paranormal, otherworldly interest. It has links to science fiction as well as to NASA.
If you're tired of sending cheesy electronic greeting cards to everyone, why not send a virtual alien abduction greeting? This site allows visitors to send a virtual extraterrestrial greeting to friends and enemies alike. The catch is that to be released, the recipient has to forward the virtual abduction to someone else.
Roush is a Lawrence senior in journalism.
Astrology continues to entertain
Continued from page 1B
Todd Foos, Lawrence graduate student,
said that he frequently read his horoscope
in *Pitch Weekly* or the *Kansan*, but his reason
for doing so was usually entertainment.
"It's amusing because of the sweeping generalizations they make," he said. "But sometimes it's amazingly relevant."
He called the mechanism underlying horoscopes "the process of synchronicity," whereby people feel that what is written applies to them, but, in reality, it's just
coincidence.
Foos said that he had never considered getting a natal chart done.
Carlson said that people erroneously think that astrology is synonymous with fortunetelling. Her view is that astrology is a way to maximize one's potential by understanding one's essential nature.
While perspectives on astrology vary widely, it is unlikely that its prevalence in the populace's collective consciousness will abate any time soon.
Edited by Chad Bettes
Scary summer fare not hack material
Continued from page 1B
In an online movie review, Myrick said that three or four times a day, the directors would write notes to each of the three cast members, sealing them in tubes so that the actors could only read their parts. They were not allowed to discuss their notes with each other. They were given the outline of the story and made up most of their lines as they went along.
The actors not only starred in the movie, they also filmed it.
Myrick said the cast was given a crash course in film production just before they headed out into the woods laden with film equipment and basic camping supplies including food, water and a tracking device. Also, Myrick said that the cast was never in contact with the crew during the filming.
The result? It's an improvisation that works.It's the frighteningly simple bare essentials that make the difference — screams that break the silence of the night, mysterious stacks of rocks waiting outside the tent in the mornings,and something bloody tied to a bundle of sticks after somebody disappears.
Suffice it to say that Blair Witch Project is a movie you have to see for yourself. But once in a while you may have to look away from the screen while your heartbeat slows
and you remind yourself:"It's just a movie." It is just a movie."
A Stir of Echoes
This upcoming summer horror flick stars Kevin Bacon as a man who, after being hypnotized by his sister-in-law at a party, discovers he has extrasensory perception. He already has a young son who hears voices and sees someone who isn't there. Now the father joins the ranks. Is his house haunted? Is he really seeing someone who isn't there? Or is he going crazy?
At one point, this movie has the taste of a Close Encounters of the Third Kind scene, the one where Richard Dreyfuss plays with his mashed potatoes. In A Stir of Echoes, Kevin Bacon becomes equally obsessed and starts digging holes — big holes — in his backyard. There's something there, somewhere, he knows. But where is it? And what is it, or who is it?
Further, his wife can't understand why her husband stops going to work and starts tearing up the vard.
A Stir of Echoes is based on the novel by Richard Matheson. It's a haunted house story, it's a ghost story and it's a story that's bound to haunt you for a while. It just might prove to be a movie that you don't want to think about when it's late at night and you're turning out the light.
Edited by Mike Miller
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