Index to 1998 Misc. Columns
-
1-8-98
Whither Ruby Montana's?/too many millionaires, not enough real well-being/somebody steals the ex-Moe's would-be new name/nudists vs. sweatshops?
- 1-15-98
Microsoft: Threat or
Menace?
- 1-22-98
Trader Joe's and a
culinary tour of Seattle via bus/a 'Geek Boys' pinup
calendar/a Freudian explanation for the Spice Girls/human
cloning's potential supporters
- 1-29-98
Do smart people really
get less sex, and, if so, why?/goodbye Fizz
magazine/what I really have against the dance-music
scene/MTV's unrealReal World
- 2-5-98
Why should sports be the
only TV you can see in bars?/Moxie soda comes to Seattle, sort
of/a beautiful Olympia rockzine/how we were apathetic about the
White House sex scandal long before you were/seeking the
Martha Stewart of Seattle
- 2-12-98
Are cable-access
producers ready for the invasion of home satellite
dishes?/Mayor Schell's plan to ease the development crunch via
more development/who's the real Master of Suspense?/art grants
as personality tests
- 2-19-98
Swatch goes on the
road, but not around here/US West promises fast Net
connections, if you can believe 'em/don't have a fiscal
meltdown, man!/when's organic not?
- 2-26-98
Learning to enjoy "the
entertainment glut"/Steve's Broiler R.I.P./when's "independent
academic research" not?/Kenny G and black audiences/do
children already rule the world?
- 3-5-98
Gates and the
Pieman/Fred Meyer-Leary Way update/the last porno picture
show/transit for living, or just for commuting?/expensive
sneakers go bust
- 3-12-98
What comes after
"yuppies"?/Why CBS's Olympics coverage sucked/Two more TV
networks/Whatever happened to happy buttons?
- 3-19-98
Lesbian-hearing jokes
and a new all-gay radio station/"girl power" as cynical
marketing ploy/wacky news copy/free goodies from the High Tech
Job Expo
- 3-26-98
Let's trade The
Real World for The X-Files!/the unimaginative
fetishism that is RealDoll/decorating your home with used
medical equipment/a zine that searches for the 'true
Northwest'
- 4-2-98
More fun bowling iconography doesn't
equal more bowling/KCPQ's new newscast/sex-harassment allegations at 60
Minutes/racial-discrimination allegations at Boeing/two more local
bands that oughta play together/more gay radio (sorta)/who'll provide the
quaint local-color segments in a Seattle Olympics?
- 4-9-98
Suggested post-'yuppie'
phrases/more on public-transit changes/the swankalicious
Pampas Club and the new debutantes/the new affluence trickles
down to the art world, but artists are as broke as ever
- 4-16-98
The ARO.Space dance club's fashionable neo-squareness/the Colourbox rock club's impending doom/candy bars for baseball-card collectors/the bagel-shop boom goes down the hole/the local return of rappers' favorite 'information' number/a pay-to-play zine/update on KCPQ's post-news reruns/ex-GOP gadfly Ellen Craswell takes a name from Steve Forbes for her new political party
- 4-23-98
The Fear of Sex (or of sexual imagery) at the Seattle Art Museum and in the suburbs/Bikini Kill splits up, as the world allegedly becomes less male-friendly
- 4-30-98
Remembering Seattle Pilots baseball owner Dewey Soriano/fake Microsoft support letters/Quaker State blends with Pennzoil/a test-marketed 'beer for women'/a reply to our Seattle Olympics 'local color' question
- 5-7-98
Twike electric cars and Ole fruity-milky beverages come to America/Gus Van Sant meets Hanson/commentator Jim Compton leaves KING-TV/gentrification hits Chicago and Montreal as hard as it hits Seattle/the Mariners start sucking a little less/a German filmmaker explains the great American double standard
- 5-14-98
Create your own Seinfeld storyline
- 5-21-98
Kingdome's doom/Benz, Chrysler crash into one another/candies in computer-mouse shaped packages/'Lusty Lady' photo-show update/newspapers plead their case on MTV/Anastasia video as nostalgia for dictatorships/one last Seinfeld item
- 5-28-98
Viagra-mania and the expansion of "sex positive culture" to finally include straight men/fashions for men who want to tease at butt-cleavage without really showing/will development doom the Pioneer Square 'blooze' circuit?
- 6-4-98
If Fremont upscales the funk away, where could the next Groovytown shopping district be placed?/megamalls vs. superstores/updates about Operation Nightwatch and The Compton Report/the oddly appropriate names behind the Northwest's three biggest sex scandals
- 6-11-98
Things I've always wanted (my own hydroplane, cereal, travel service, TV show)/Asian junk foods galore/SUVs advertised with images of the countryside they destroy
- 6-18-98 (expanded online edition), Philosophers, 'civil society' pundits, and Microsoft supports all seek a unified society under one socioeconomic order--can they succeed, and who will it hurt if they do?/what do the English know about snowboarding music?/seeking unofficial nicknames for 'Safeco Field'
- 6-25-98
Another local print-zine review revue
- 7-2-98
What would a new American revolution look like?/nostalgia for the onetime threat that was Japan Inc./Dick's milkshakes come home/ADSL and cable modems come closer to local availability
- 7-9-98
A tour up and down the local radio dial
- 7-16-98
More Safeco Field puns/only one lesbian bar left in Seattle/fireworks as symbolizing the American Way/AT&T, TCI merge/a cool discount auto-parts and food store
- 7-23-98
Highly exaggerated tales of a 'youth riot' at the Bite of Seattle betray the city's 'mellow' racism/Mariners' Turn Ahead the Clock Night/Cyclops restaurant redux/spare those computer-generated skyscrapers!/Imagining an updated version of the Kama Sutra's vital arts and sciences
- 7-30-98
The 1998 Misc. Midsummer Reading List
- 8-6-98
Circusmeister Jim Rose defends his reputation from a new book by ex-associates/Ruby Montana's moving her store/home prices in Seattle become too costly for even Californians/everybody's gettin' pregnant/a new local comix tabloid debuts/the joys of the Government Printing Office Bookstore/the Lava Lounge's appropriately-named greeter/US West ADSL service delayed again
- 8-13-98
The 64 arts and disciplines a modern person should know (including almost 150 related links)
- 8-20-98
Remembering the old Nordstrom store/a big new Safeway store, and its place in the 'food chain'/an attempt at a better top-100-novels list
- 8-27-98
A Labor Day tale of industrial angst involving Reznor (the heating company not the singer)/more advertisers want you to think they're formenting revolutions/Mattel's Erica Kane fashion doll/BP (which bought Standard Oil of Ohio) now buys Amoco (nee Standard Oil of Indiana)/Viagra T-shirts in India/Crown Books leaving Washington/Safeco Field's new logo/a mobile readerboard with chase lights, in the heart of downtown!
- 9-3-98
The Wall St. Journal claims to have discovered America's last real slackers!/an Ally McBeal fan party/the Family Channel, now with 'Fox Attitude'/a real rock band takes my all-time favorite wannabe band name/getting a minivan with a built-in VCR
- 9-10-98
Who's afraid of the year 2000?/scary condo-ad models/QFC takes over another indie supermarket/BP update/the new downtown Nordstrom store's Vegas-y glitz
- 9-17-98
Seattle's civic elite finally discovers the affordable-housing crisis now that it's engulfing the moderately upscale as well as the working stiffs/lessons to be learned from old burlesque movies/on-bus movie update
- 9-24-98
A look at the growth and relative prosperity of Seattle's 'alternative' communities on the occasion of The Stranger'sseventh anniversary/the iMac computer doesn't just look snazzy, it could be helpful to spaced-out screen-addicts/a new swing-dance zine/steak-flavored potato 'crisps'
- 10-1-98
Seattle's new symphony hall looks like an overgrown version of a '60s-modern Protestant church/Old Navy drops port in town, turns the elegant ex-I. Magnin building into something loud and cheap (in a good way)/a note to the operators of a chitzy new restaurant
- 10-8-98
A look back, and ahead, for the last Misc. column for The Stranger
- 10-15-98
A bright new dawn shines on the first exclusively-online Misc. column/On The Boards' shiny new performance-art temple (black tie recommended--heck, black everything recommended)/66 Bell art studios evicted at last/Liquor Board wants to get beer out of stadium stands/McDonald's uses hippie nostalgia to sell its fast-food burgers, to which the hardcore hippies were and are ideologically opposed
- 10-22-98
So now what am I to do with my career?/male nudity in your morning paper/a potentially-appropriate name for a theatrical manager/what does a 'Lesbian Guitar Teacher' teach?/'Chris Cornell for Mayor'--why not?/what's killing rock n' roll this time?/a zine with Evel Knievel and Bob Newhart/MovieMaker magazine sells out to Hollywood/more changes in local movie theaters/Cleveland Amory remembered
- 10-29-98
What this town needs!/why do Lyndon LaRouche's followers defend Clinton?/the joys of hypocritical campaign ads/more supermarket consolidation/Alexander Pope on vice
- 11-5-98
Affirmative-action defenders join in election-night disappointment at Pier 70 on the night of the last Real World episode/Halloween's coolest costumes and sights/Pacific Place opens with a caste-divided Barnes and Noble, a gorgeous movie multiplex, and snobby shops that make nearby Westlake Center look positively populist/the hidden connection between a bad new movie and Reader's Digest
- 11-12-98
Welcoming back the Kalakala/welcoming back Ruby Montana's Pinto Pony store/'Tacoma Jeans,' sold only in Europe/latter-day thoughts about Taco Bell and Demolition Man/the return of Quisp cereal/luggage that shouts 'America'/loving Mode magazine/are college kids really having less sex, and what can we do to halt this trend?/fetuses for motor oil/Twin Peaks returns in video screenings/kids and the Beatles nostalgia industry/a personal tragedy
- 11-19-98
Jesse 'The Body' Ventura's election, modern-day pro wrestling, and shifts in the popular zeitgeist/a Portland paper asks if its town's really better than Seattle/more pro-sex ad campaign ideas/The Big Chill returns to the screen, for no apparent reason
- 11-23-98
Defending the retro-swing tribe/why Roger Corman's '96 A Bucket of Blood remake's better than the original/snot-nosed San Franciscans call Seattle 'the sticks'/Bed Bath and Beyond comes to town, while Eagle Hardware sells out/we seek things to be thankful for
- 11-30-98
Just missing the local disaster story of the year, thank heavens/two more pieces of the old Standard Oil talk about remarrying/downtown's last small, old buildings getting taken over by the designers of big, new buildings/collect-call condoms?/a store likes the look of Macs but won't sell 'em/drunk driving 'made easier'/could het-male prostitution be the comeback ticket for depressed industrial regions?/launching the new Misc.Talk discussion boards
- 12-7-98
Vaudeville vs. burlesque, an old culture war with much to say about our own/nostalgia for yesterday's 'Asian threat'/Boeing's lump of coal in the Seattle economy's Xmas stocking/KSTW news signs off/nice things about Seattle Weekly, really!/watching digital cable channels come on screen, one piece at a time/indie video stores vs. Blockbuster (again)/cool art shows/a local 'singles-resource' mag with almost as many pages of escort ads as of personal ads/get your In/Out List nominations in before the rush!
- 12-14-98
Things I wonder about at holiday-time '98 (including the Walter Winchell TV movie, George Carlin's commercials, light rail, the Kalakala ferry-restoration drive, and the Pike Place Market's continuing demographic cleansing)/Jim Goad in big trouble/updates on local culture zines and Seven Gables theaters/Meyerson & Nowinski gallery hangs it up/fun signs/a least-probable listing in a newspaper's high-school basketball preview
- 12-21-98
Not so impeachy-keen political madness/International Junk Food of the Month Club/the Seattle Reign, gotta love 'em (or it?)/Seagram reunites Decca Records/pirate radio returns/TCI keeps wimping out/RKCNDY doomed/Seattle Olympics bid finally dies/a quest for memorable Northwest women/strange phrases that somehow bring search-engine grazers to this site/insanity and creativity
- 12-28-98
The fantastic, splendiforous Misc. In/Out List/Seattle Reign post-mortem
|
2001 COLUMNS
2000 COLUMNS
1999 COLUMNS
1999 COLUMNS
1998 COLUMNS
1997 COLUMNS
1996 COLUMNS
1995 COLUMNS
1986-94 COLUMNS
ESSAYS
FICTION
X-WORDS
'THE BIG BOOK OF MISC.'
THE BOOK 'LOSER'
MISCmedia, THE MAGAZINE
FUTURE PROJECTS
CYBER STUFF
THINGS I LIKE
'MISC. TALK'
DISCUSSION FORUM
CLARK'S CULTURE CORRAL:
BOOKS, MUSIC, MOVIES REVIEWED AND SOLD
(Support MISC. Media; make your Amazon.com purchases thru this link.)
|
