MISCmedia for 5/16/01
Every Home I've Lived In Is Still Standing,
Part 6

A MONTH AGO, we began a countdown to the gigantic MISCmedia 15th Anniversary celebratory fete on June 2 (details at the left side of this virtual page), with a glimpse of the art show that'll be part of the festivity--randomly-ordered pix of every home yr. web-pal had lived in. Today, some more.

#14: 4533 9th Avenue NE. A small, cruddy room in the basement of a small, cruddy house in the U District. Occupied March-April 1982.

Following my winter's exile in Ballard, I returned to the local Ground Zero of ultra-cheap ex-student housing. My room was the one with the window seen in the bottom left corner of this picture. It was the room's only window. I shared the kitchen and bathroom with the owner and his sons, who lived in the rest of the basement. The main floor was rented out to four lesbians who played Frank Sinatra records at full blast.

The week after I moved in, a "For Sale" sign appeared on the front lawn. The owner assured me that day that I wouldn't have to leave. The lesbians and I were evicted three weeks later.

After I moved (to a commercial rooming house), I learned that author Thomas Pynchon may have lived there while working as a Boeing technical writer and starting his first novel V.

NEXT: Another entry in this series.

ELSEWHERE:

• Tiny but full-length streaming video files of some forgotten Warner Bros. Cartoons, including some of the ones Warner won't let Cartoon Network show due to racial characterizations....
• Rock isn't dead. Rock criticism, however, might be....

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:

• My return to a certain sleazy tabloid.
• 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.
• 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