Index to 2001 MISCmedia Columns
January
- The Future Is Now (Well, Not Quite Yet): What you may see here during the Year of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra.'.
- Revolting: Writers Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn appear to have learned the wrong lessons from the WTO protests.
- It's So Patronizing: How to run a serious arts magazine in the post-funding age--suck up to demographically-correct 'patrons.'
- This Is My Body: Predicting the next great pop-culture sub-sub-genre, Christian porn. Really. (Part 1 of 3)
- Body and Soul: A more generalized pondering on the rift between sex and religion in the western world. Really. (Part 2 of 3)
- Baring Witness: The end of the Christian-erotica topic. Really. (Part 3 of 3)
- Things Gone And Going (Part 1): Remembering some disappearing people, places, and things from the pop-cult landscape. (Part 1 of 2)
- Things Gone And Going (Part 2): Some more recent disappearances. (Part 2 of 2)
- People You're Not Better Than: Whole groups of North American citizens who aren't really as dumb or fascistic as some hipsters wish to believe.
- For the 'Record': My dream for a permanent version of Seattle's recent strike newspaper, the 'Union Record.'
- Don't Be A Fuddy, Read 'Cruddy': Lynda Barry's worst-road-trip-ever novel iis a masterpiece of (completely deserved) teenage depression and nihilism.
- 'Mass' Destruction: Even a few corporate-Hollywood insiders are starting to admit there's no single mass audience anymore.
- Racists? Here? You're Kidding, Right?: The Microsoft discrimination suit and the faulty reasonings behind "diversity" PR campaigns.
- Read All About IT: I know what the mystery invention is. Maybe I'll tell you.
- I Love Jazz. I Hate 'Jazz.': The PBS miniseries represents everything that's wrong with that 'American classical music' approach to jazz.
- For Whom the Bell(town) Tolls: $100-a-plate restaurants don't create a 'vibrant urban village;' they help destroy it. But you already knew that.
- That '70s Crisis: You think the comeback of retro clothes and music is icky? Here comes the retro energy crisis!
- Video Overload? Still Not Yet, Baby!: Still more new digital-cable channels.
- A Little 'Light' Reading: Previews of our forthcoming coffee-table photo book, 'City Light.'
- The Big W Stands for Wuss: What we know about the new Administration after one week.
- Rabbit Redux: What's really wrong with Playboy magazine isn't what its 'radical' critics think is wrong with it. (Part 1 of 3)
- Consumer Sex: A more-meandering-than-usual rant, against both corporate-defined sexuality and "abstinence teaching." (Part 2 of 3)
February
- Yay for (Real) Sex!: A rambling attempt at a vision of intimacy for a post-corporate age. (Part 3 of 3)
- That '90s Show: Forecasting the now-tiresome trends that will roar back as hip irony in '90s nostalgia.
- How Not to Get Respect: Amazon.com tries to prove it's a reputable investment by becoming a disreputable employer.
- Dinero Habla, Everybody Rides: Visiting the hinterlands of Mexico on an efficient, video-equipped bus system. (Part 1 of 2)
- Fast, Rich, And Out Of Control: If we're such a prosprous place, why can't we have a public transportation network as well-run as Mexico's? (Part 2 of 2)
- Made Too Far Over: A fictional allegory about a beauty makeover that makes a woman feel a few too many years younger.
- Cut Loose: A personal introduction to post-dot-com existence.
- Welfare and Dog Tricks (Part 1): A single mom vs. the bureaucracy. (Part 1 of 2)
- Welfare and Dog Tricks (Part 2): Discovering a private contractor who's getting rich (or at least well off) from welfare "reform." (Part 2 of 2)
- Living With V.D.: Learning to appreciate, or at least tolerate, Valentine's Day.
- 'Red Dwarf,' The Special Edition: Re-editing the outer-space sitcom makes it look too slick.
- Playing With Power: A possible conspiratorial storyline behind the electric shortage; a narrative I don't necessarily believe.
- The More-Or-Less-Annual 'I Love Snow' Piece: A photographic ode to the rare and precious wonder that is snow in Seattle.
- To Ave and Ave Not: University Way's latest crisis.
- The Look of Primal Fear: Why age-regression therapy shouldn't be left to amateurs.
- You Bet Your Lifestyle: Does the "Northwest Lifestyle" personality type even exist?
- Building Empires: Previewing the vast new array of glorious MISCmedia products coming soon, any day now, for sure.
- The Days of Whine and Roses: That quintessential aspect of the Seattle cultural zeitgeist, complaining.
- This Is What Videomaking Looks Like: Reviewing a couple of WTO-protest video documentaries.
- The Real Dirt: The probable real reason behind big porn-video producers' new self-restraint policies.
MarchApril
- Letter Imperfect: Thanks to the Net, some folks are writing a lot more these days. That's supposed to be a bad thing?
- Et Tu, KCMU?: Paul Allen's quasi-takeover of my all-time favorite radio station turns out not to have been an April Fool's gag.
- Site Flying: Pondering future changes to this site, yet again.
- The Fiend Folio, Part 1: A guest columnist reminisces about beer, basements, and all-night Dungeons and Dragons games. (Part 1 of 2)
changes to this site, yet again.
- The Fiend Folio, Part 2: More memories of a role-playing gamer who didn't know the role he was expected to play. (Part 2 of 2)
- Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing, Part 1: Remembering the first place I occupied in Seattle. (Part 1 of 5)
- Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing, Part 2: Another rememberence in real estate. (Part 2 of 5)
- Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing, Part 3: A dreary little amateur-built room in the basement of a dreary little house. (Part 3 of 5)
- Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing, Part 4: A cheap, spacious, and crime-ridden studio. (Part 4 of 5)
- Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing, Part 5: Getting out of an apartment building just before the tarp and scaffolding go up. (Part 5 of 5)
- Tulipomania Redux: At one time, tulips attracted hordes of speculators. Today, they attract hordes of tourists.
- No 'Keister' Puns: A local TV legend gets canceled again, apparently.
- Sedated: What Joey Ramone meant to me.
- A Chant, Re: The Art of Art Chantry: My favorite graphic designer has a career-retrospective book out, and it's a blast.
- The 'W' In the Middle of 'Underworld': The Bush White House as a Don DeLillo novel's prophecy-fulfillment.
- Beyond Kozmo-polis: The chief faulty market assumption behind those delivery dot-coms.
- Turn On TV Week: No, TV-viewing isn't automatically stupefying and book-reading isn't automatically empowering.
- Out of Lux?: My second-favorite Net radio site goes pay-to-play.
- Getting a Grilling: A qualified defense of fast food in the wake of the book Fast Food Nation.
- Signifying Nothing, Part 1: Images of older objects now rendered speechless.
- The Great Jewish Baseball Graphic Novel: Previewing the probable best comic of 2001; plus more about Fast Food Nation.
May
- Nostalgia for What Never Was: The original Seattle Weekly never was as 'alternative' as one ex-staffer imagines it to have been.
- Plugfest 2001, Part 1: Short reviews of sites people (mostly the sites' own operators) asked me to plug. (Part 1 of 2)
- Plugfest 2001, Part 2: Reviewing a Net-radio operation that doesn't try to be an alternative to dumb broadcast media, just an alternate form of it. (Part 2 of 2)
- Saving Transit from the Transit Planners: How to rescue the Sound Transit light-rail scheme.
- Words: Who Needs 'Em?: Press release for a photography show by a frustrated wordsmith.
- What I've Been Up To Lately: Things I've been doing besides this site.
- A Darker Shade of Pale: In the upscale Monoculture, minorities can try to be just as blandly middlebrow as whites.
- 'The Arts' as Development Scheme: If you believe our civic bosses, Culture (in the form of World Class buildings) is what's gonna save Seattle from a tech recession.
- Rendezvous With Danger?: As a classic dive bar's fate remains uncertain, business leaders in its neighborhood try to devise a "branding" scheme.
- Alas, My Dear Watson: Remembering the dean of Seattle newspapermen.
- My Print Future: Unexpectedly returning to one's ink-stained roots.
- Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing, Part 6: Another personal reminiscence via real estate.
- Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing, Part 7: A place I didn't stay in very long, thankfully.
- Top 40 Memories:Do you remember rock n' roll radio? One site (with hours of old DJ patter on-stream) does.
- Not So Easy: Watching a favorite hangout burn.
- Playing Against the House: A new book goes a little too far in blaming everything wrong with America on Las Vegas.
- Further Print Futures: Should our print mag go smaller or bigger?
- Problem Child: When a daughter insists on clean living, what's a liberated mom to do?
- In Vision: Remembering the British television Americans never saw.
- 1998 Nostalgia, Part 1: The allegedly good old days of the tech boom. (Part 1 of 2)
- 1998 Nostalgia, Part 2: The dark side of the last boom time. (Part 2 of 2)
- Shrek and Sidran: A computer-animated movie's full of probably-unintended metaphors for modern-day Seattle.
JuneJuly
- Augmentations: Today's Playboy TV has replaced the blandly reassuring centerfold smile with porn queens and raunch talk.
- Past Its Pull Date: Webvan.com calls it quits.
- Square-To-Be-Hip Dept.: Why 'Spyder Games' is the weirdest thing ever on MTV.
- Teachers Petting: Seeking a mature response to intergenerational sex scandals.
- Elmer and FUD: What the movie 'Elmer Gantry' has to teach about the Internet's promise vs. the temptation of big bucks.
- Bite Me: The Bite of Seattle is gloriously unpretentious, unartistic, downscale, and full of empty calories.
- The 'Right' Side of the Bed: The imagined dreams and nightmares of different political sub-factions.
August
- 'Rite' Aid: Why I like Seafair, again.
- Summer Reading, Summer Not: Our more-or-less-annual late-summer reading list.
- A New Leaf: Seattle Hempfest finally admits it's about pot smoking.
- Reclamation Project: The non-riot at, and police over-reaction to, the "Reclaim Our Streets" party.
- Mayor May Not, Redux: Mark Sidran gets even scarier, fringe candidate Richard Lee behaves even odder, indie candidate Scott Kennedy makes a less-than-stunning debut, and all the candidates try not to talk about arts support.
SeptemberOctober
- Wish Me a Grant: Using the NYC terror as an excuse for a sales pitch.
- Choose Your Civic Role Model: The 2001 Mariners' stunning success is compared with, among other things, Amazon.com's "get big fast" strategy.
- The End Is Near: Clear Channel Communications, one of the biggest and worst media conglomerates, muscles its way into the Seattle radio market.
- Things I Love About America: Fifty great things about fifty great states.
- My MetropoLIST Choices: Yr. humble editor was on a jury that picked the 150 most influential people in Seattle-King County history. Here are some names I suggested and/or voted for, who didn't make the final cut.
November
- Election '01: Nickels leads in race for mayor; the local media refuse to concede.
- Heavy Contractions: Baseball's bosses want to solve the problem of small-market teams by killing them.
- Treat or Treat: A guest columnist compares the news announcements of the past Halloween season.
- The Threat of Victory: The apparently imminent end of the Afghan war might frustrate its more ideologically minded U.S. proponents.
- Whole Lotta Boppin': A survey claims Americans are the most sexually active folk in the industrial world. What this might mean.
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