MISCmedia for 4/24/00
Even MISC-er

SOME SHORTS TODAY:

THE MAY ISSUE of the MISCmedia print magazine may be delayed a week or so, for reasons to be discussed later. (I'm feeling fine and everything; just job and personal complications have taken their time toll.)

THE FOLLOWING is the actual text of the story in the bottom-left corner of the Seattle Times front page on Sunday, 4/16, under the headline, "In Europe's eyes, America becomes uglier and uglier":

Newspaper

This text is set in Century Old Style at 9.8 points with 10.6 points of leading. It should be replaced with the real story. You now have 1 inch of standard body copy. 1 inch.

This text is set in Century Old Style at 9.8 points with 10.6 points of leading with standard tracking, hyphenation and justification.

It will be replaced with the story when it is ready. You have 2 inches of standard body copy. 2 inches.

This text is set in Century Old Style at 9.8 points with 10.6 points of leading. It should be replaced with the real story. You now have 1 inch of standard body copy. 1 inch.

This text is set in Century Old Style at 9.8 points with 10.6 points of leading with standard tracking, hyphenation and justification.

It will be replaced with the story when it is ready.

You have 3 inches.

This text is set in Century Old Style at 9.8 points with 10.6 points of leading with standard tracking, hyphenation and justification.

It will be replaced with the story when it is ready. You have 4 inches of standard body copy. 4 inches.

This text is set in Century Old Style at 9.8 points with 10.6 points of leading.

With standard tracking, H & J.

It will be replaced with the story when it is ready. You have 5 inches of standard body copy. 5 inches.

This text is set in Century Old Style at 9.8 points with 10.6 points of leading with

PLEASE SEE Story slug on Xx

STACKED: More fascinating info keeps emerging about Rem Koolhaas, the "world class" (code word for out-of-state) architect picked to design the new main Seattle library. For one thing, he just got his profession's top award. Even cooler, the Times reported he once wrote an unproduced screenplay for everybody's favorite sexploitation filmmaker, Russ Meyer! (I don't know if it had anything to do with the naked-in-the-library fantasies occasionally reported on with bemusement in the Abada Abada weblog.)

DID YOU FEEL TIRED last Friday? Everyone I met that day said so. At least those who had enough energy to get out of the house. I was in line at Tower Records at 4 p.m. and everybody was yawning.The bars I hopped among were nearly deserted later that evening; folks who should've been bouncing and dancing were shuffling and moping instead.Was it just the arrival of cool weather after a week of warm temps, or was it a post-full-moon energy drop, or unconscious Good Friday solemnity?

TOMORROW: Seattle as photo-copyright capital of the world.

ELSEWHERE:

• I can't believe PolkaNet got undeservedly listed in the "Worst 15 Sites on the Web"....

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