Club Dead
The boy has shown little interest in the Mütter Museum. Mostly, he has made loops around his mother, with his sweatshirt wrapped over his face. Above him, in the museum’s balconied upper viewing area, patrons study mounted skeletons and brain tissue samples on slides in the glass cases that line the walls. Down the wide staircase is the main lower gallery, where most of the museum’s famed content is on display. The boy makes his circles near the base of the staircase. Finally, before a display of an oversized colon, he finds something he can appreciate: “This guy has an overgrown whoopee cushion!” “Overgrown” is an understatement. The colon measures nearly nine feet in length.