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MISCmedia for 12/29/00
The Innies and the Outies

THE TRADITION CONTINUES: For the 15th consecutive year, here's your fantastical MISCmedia In/Out List. Thanks to all who contributed suggestions.

As always, this list predicts what will become hot or not-so-hot over the course of the Year of HAL 9000; not necessarily what's hot or not-so-hot now. If you think every person, place, thing, or trend that's big now will just keep getting bigger forever, I've got some dot-com stocks to sell you.

(P.S.: Most every damned item on this list has a handy weblink. Spend the weekend clicking and having fun.)

INSVILLE OUTSKI
White kids who wish they were doo-wop singers White kids who wish they were pimps
Seattle Union Record Seattle Scab Times
Canadian Football League Xtreme Football League
The print version of Nerve Hardcore pay-per-view
Classic Arts Showcase TNN
Christian sex clubs Abstinance preaching
The American Prospect The Weekly Standard
Retro burlesque Thong Thursday
Razor scooters (still) General Motors
Independent publishing eBooks
Jon Stewart (now more than ever) Chris Matthews
Dot-orgs Dot-coms
Kamikazes Martinis
Grant Cogswell Tim Eyman
Whoopass Powerade
Tantra Bloussant
2-Minute Drill Survivor
Verso Regnery
Political gridlock "Bipartisanship"
Scarlet Letters Cosmo Girl
Renewing Tacoma Saving San Francisco
Caffe Ladro Folger's Latte
TiVo UltimateTV
McSweeney's (still) Tin House
Napster (while it lasts) Liquid Music
Austin, home of political chicanery Austin, home of hip music
Lookout Records Interscope (still)
Public displays of affection Personal digital assistants
Jared Leto Chris O'Donnell
Building an all-around team Depending on one superstar
Helen Hunt Gwyneth Paltrow
Kenneth Lonergan Robert Zemeckis
Open-source software Microsoft.NET
"Slow food" Fast Company
Goth revival #7 Ska revival #13
Antenna Internet Radio The Funky Monkey 104.9
Bed Bath and Beyond Lowe's Home Centers
Green Republicans Corporate Democrats
Gents Dudes
Vamps Bimbos
Collecting early home computers Collecting Pokemon cards
Concerts in houses House music
Cafe Venus and Mars Bar Flying Fish
Fat pride No-carb diets
Dump-Schell movement Kill-transit movement
Hard cider Hard lemonade
Indie gay films Showtime's Queer As Folk
Boondocks Zits
Internet telephony (at last) Wireless Internet
Coronation Street (UK soap on CBC) Dawson's Creek
Energy conservation Energy deregulation
Microsoft breakup AOL/Time Warner merger
Dark blue Beige
Pho Chalupas
Caleb Carr Stephen King
'90s nostalgia '80s nostalgia
Toyota Echo Range Rover
Sweat equity Venture capital
Reality "Reality TV"
Rubies Crystals
Blackjack NASDAQ
Matt Bruno Ricky Martin
Quinzo's Subway
Hamburg Mazatlan
Georgetown Belltown
Red wine Ritalin
Rational thinking "War on Drugs"
Economic democracy Corporate restructuring
Culottes Teddies
Following your own path Believing dumb lists

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