MISCmedia for 5/15/01
My Print Future

WHAT I THOUGHT I'D NEVER DO, I just did.

Yes, I returned to a certain sleazy tabloid after about 32 months away.

Even after all that blather just weeks ago in this virtual space about giving up on the pathetic word biz in order to concentrate on the more tangible realm of photographic imagery.

The first batch of pieces, in the issue coming out tomorrow night, will be little regular features: The X-Word puzzle, and a new obituaries piece.

I'll also be contributing larger feature pieces on a less-regular basis. The first will be a nostalgic look back at the last time I was one of the paper's key contributors, the dot-com-crazed autumn of 1998.

For this, I seek your help.

Tell me your stories of those giddy (for the financially ambitious) yet scary (for many of the rest of us) times, via email or via our MISCtalk discussion boards.

(Ahh, the Late Nineties. They were such simpler times...)

NEXT: Another of my former homes depicted.

ELSEWHERE:

• Naomi Klein doesn't like globalized, homogonized, mass "McProtests...."
• Buried in the middle of a long, somewhat trite essay about The Need For Literature lies a strange allegation: that Bill Gates wants to stamp out the book as we know it....

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:

• Remembering the humble genius of Emmett Watson.
• A "Rendezvous" with danger?
• "The arts" as a development scheme.
• In the upscale Monoculture, minorities are as bland as whites.
• Some things I've been up to lately.
• A preview of our forthcoming photo show (opening June 2).
• Saving transit from the transit planners.
• Parts one and two of some reviews of sites who asked to be reviewed here.
• The possibly rose-colored memoirs of a former Seattle Weekly editor.
• Previewing the great Jewish-baseball graphic novel.
• Images signifying nothing.
• A partial defense of fast food.
• An attempt to save a beloved Net radio station.
• Turning off Turn Off TV Week.
• The real problem with delivery dot-coms.
• The Bush regime compared with the novel Underworld.
• A Chant, re: the art of Art Chantry.
• Joey Ramone reaches the ultimate sedation.
• John Keister gets canceled again, apparently.
• Tulipomania redux.
• Parts one, two, three, four, and five of a tour through every home I've lived in.
• A special offer on slightly-hurt Losers.

ARCHIVES:

• 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, and 1986-94 columns
• Reviews of literature & art, nonfiction & culture criticism, movies & videos, and music & noise
• Longer articles and essays
• Some slightly weird little fiction pieces
• X-Word crossword puzzles, now with on-screen solving
• Cyber Stuff, links to cool and/or useful sites
• A listing of many Things I Like (and a few things I hate)
• The origin and future of MISCmedia