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THE OLD INSVILLE AND OUTSKI
December 31st, 1999 by Clark Humphrey

THE TRADITION CONTINUES: For the 14th 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 the Double-Oughts; 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 Packard Bell PCs to sell you.

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

INSVILLE

OUTSKI

Jigglypuff

Charizard

Washington Law & Politics

Washington CEO

TrailBlazers

Knicks

‘Amateur’ Net porn

LA porn industry

Game Show Network

USA Network (still)

Casual sex

Casual Fridays

The Nation

The New Republic

Women’s football

Wrestling

Gas masks

Bandanas

Begging

IPOs

Jon Stewart

Jay Leno

Public nudity

“Chastity education”

Global warming

Rolling Stone’s “Hot Issue”

Commuter rail

Anti-transit initiative

Dot-commies (online political organizing)

Dot-coms

Good posture

Implants

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (still)

Greed

Post-Microsoft Seattle

Silicon Valley

Post-WTO Left

Corporate Right

Dalkey Archive Press

HarperCollins

Bust

Bitch

‘Love Your Dog’

‘Kill Your TV’

Artisan Entertainment

Miramax

McSweeney’s

Speak

The Donnas

TLC

Tobey Maguire

Tom Hanks

Spike Jones

Spike Jonze

Michael Moore

Mike Moore

Darren Aronofsky (Pi)

Quentin Tarantino

Finding a Kingdome implosion viewpoint

Finding a New Year’s party spot

Keeping Ken Griffey Jr.

Trading away pitching

Quitting your job

Going on Prozac

Nerdy individuality

Hip conformity

NetSlaves

Business 2.0

Drip

Lattes

Dodi

Dido

Target

Wal-Mart

Amazons

Pensive waifs

Post-corporate economic theory

Dissertations about Madonna

Electric medicine

HMOs

“Girlie” magazines

“Bloke” magazines

Graceland

Last Supper Club

Labor organizing

Hoping for stock options

Yoga

Tae Bo

Urbanizing the suburbs

Gentrifying the cities

The Powerpuff Girls

The Wild Thornberrys

New library

New football stadium

Detroit

Austin

African folk art

Mexican folk art

As the World Turns

Passions

Liquid acid (alas)

Crystal

Dyed male pubic hair

Dreadlocks

Scarification

Piercings

People who think UFOs are real

People who think wrestling’s real

Red Mill

iCon Grill

76

BP/Amoco/Arco and Exxon/Mobil

Rock/dance-music fusion

Retro disco

Peanuts retirement

Garth Brooks retirement

Maximillian Schell

Paul Schell

Breaching dams

Smashing Pumpkins

Smart Car

Sport-utes (now more than ever)

Contact

Dildonics

Orange

Blue

Public accountability

Police brutality

Georgetown

Pioneer Square

Matchless

Godsmack

Buena Vista Social Club soundtrack

Pulp Fiction soundtrack (finally)

Labor/hippie solidarity

‘Cool’ corporations

Performance art

Performance Fleece

Radical politics

‘Radical sports’

Chloe Sevigny

Kate Winslet

International Herald Tribune

Morning Seattle Times

Piroshkies

Wraps

Prague

London

Kozmo.com

Blockbuster (still)

The exchange of ideas

NASDAQ

Fatigues

Khakis

First World Music

Interscope

Gill Sans

Helvetica

Pretending to be Japanese

Pretending to be gangstas

Botany 500

Blink 182

Tanqueray

Jaegermeister

Bremerton

Duvall

Nehi

Surge

Jimmy Corrigan

Dilbert

Cross-cultural coalitions

In-group elitism

Northern Ireland peace plan

Lord of the Dance

Hard bodies

Soft money

Doing your own thing

‘Rebelliously’ doing exactly what Big Business wants

MONDAY: I’m perfectly confident there will still be electricity and computer networks, and am prepared to ring in the double-ought year with a Peanuts tribute.

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