Victimless Leather

HER: I love your jacket…is that suede?
ME: No, actually, it’s a semi-living combination of human and mouse. If you get close, you can smell the bone cells.
HER: What?
ME: Oh, is that mace?

The crazy bastards at The Tissue Culture & Art Project have given up trying to rejuvenate human brains with lightning, and instead are trying to build a ‘victimless leather’ jacket:

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr are attempting to grow a semi-living jacket in an effort to create “victimless leather.” Hoping to highlight the possibility of wearing leather without killing an animal, the duo is presently focused on growing living tissue into a leather-like material and having it mature in the form of a miniature, stitchless, coat-like shape.

The gross possibilities are endless:

• “Uh, dude, your jacket’s bleeding.”
• “And the nice thing is, when I get to the club, my jacket checks itself.”
• “My dog didn’t actually eat my homework–my jacket did.”