MISCmedia for 6/14/00
What You're Writing

ANOTHER YEAR, another MISCmedia anniversary party, another in-person questionnaire.

Here, in no particular order, are a few highlights of the two dozen or so responses filled in by attendees at last Thursday night's big event at the Ditto Tavern:

Favorite food/drink:

• Artichoke-jalapeno dip/Coors Light
• Whoopass Energy Drink
• Corn/hot tea with milk
• Wine/champagne
• N.Y. steak and fries
• Mac n' cheese/whiskey

Favorite store:

• Eagle Hardware
• Target and Value Village
• Bartell Drug
• Hot Topics

Favorite website:

• eBay
• Findagrave.com

Favorite catch phrase:

• "Whoa!"
• "Fuck my ass"
• "Hey girl"
• "Hi-eee"
• "What's up?"

What I'd like on the MISCmedia website:

• "Advice column"
• "3-D rotating graphics"
• "Cartoons"

What I'd like in MISCmedia magazine:

• "Photography"
• "A horoscope"
• "A travel section; what people do and see"
• "Large, colorful, glossy ad inserts and CDs"
• "More of the same, and then some better beer"

The chief legacy of the WTO protests:

• "Immunity to gas"
• "Nothing changes"
• "Misinformed graffiti; a taste of martial law"
• "People stopped shopping so much at the Gap"
• "Seattle is NOT nice!"

What should happen to Microsoft:

• "Concentrate on multimedia"
• "Become a subsidiary of Washington state"
• "Leave capitalism alone"
• "Become a religion"

The Experience Music Project building books like:

• "Aerospace design goes gay!"
• "Fun"
• "A great piece of art"
• "A Tom Petty video"
• "A beautiful, crushed TP tube"
• "A 'swoosh' gone wrong"

What this town needs (other than construction projects):

• "A conservative influence"
• "Public art"
• "Posters on telephone poles"
• "A gigantic greenhouse with exotic plants from all over the world and 60-foot ceilings"
• "Spanish as a first language"
• "Deconstruction projects"

If this region has so much wealth, why can't we...:

• "...afford to get out of here more often?"
• "...clean up the blankety-blank alleys?"
• "...smile more?"
• "...not tear up all the streets downtown?"
• "...build a pretty building?"
• "...rip out the fountain at Seattle Center and install a huge roller coaster?"
• "...keep the party going 'til midnight?"

TOMORROW: Short stuff, including that other monopolistic company Paul Allen used to be involved in.

ELSEWHERE:

• Have a guess which tech company will collapse next? Join the Dot-com Death Pool....
• One group's pick of the top 40 toys of all time (found by Pop Culture Junk Mail)....

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:

• What you're reading, besides this site.
• Will WTO-protest nostalgia become as tiresome as Woodstock nostalgia? It's easy to foresee....
• Some activities that just aren't as much fun in one's forties.
• How rap music morphed from celebrating black intelligence to white stupidity.
• Some more possible Microsoft penalties.
• Never mind Never Mind Nirvana.
• A few things you might think are true but which are not.
• Life dies again.
• Why Seattle (hearts) film.
• The city Paul Allen's building.
• The typeface that's taking over the world.
• Napster-mania.
• The ultracool Razor scooter.
• Why sweatshoppers love to sell images of rule-breakin' "rebels."
• It's still square to be hip.
• Could open-source software be the next big anti-Gates hope?

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