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THE INNIES AND THE OUTIES
December 29th, 2000 by Clark Humphrey

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

NO COLUMN MONDAY, BUT ON TUESDAY: What you might see on this site in the year of Also Sprach Zarathustra.

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