Misc. World Extra: Random responses from the 1998 Misc.-O-Rama Questionnaire (6/8/98) Favorite food/drink, if any: Sushi/Knob Creek Hamburgers Piroshky Rice/beer Violet Crumble bars Welch's grape juice Champagne and cigarettes McMenamin's Betrayal IPA ale Steak/martini Oysters/tequila Juice fast Pringle's/Chimay Popcorn/Gatorade Cous-cous/Pernod Favorite store, if any: UW Surplus Larry's Market Gargoyles Chubby & Tubby QFC AM/PM Wall of Sound Ace Hardware Safeway The Herbalist Experience Nelson's on Queen Anne Favorite webstie, if any: Amazon.com Guided By Voices The Speedtrap Registry The Annoyance Theatre Career Finders Vik's Lounge "A book" Favorite era, if any: Now `20s `40s `50s `66-'79 `75-'85 "Farrah" Medieval grunge punk rock What I'd like in a Best-of-Misc. book: "Love/hate" "Plenty of nudity" "Taped pages" "Good pix to accompany the text" "Whatever you want" "Great bands that lasted less than 1 year" "Booze trivia" "Stains" "G.G. Allin's poetry" "The psychological factors of living in our current society" How I'd fix the Mariners: "Vinyl uniforms" "Sell them" "Hire cuter ones" "Like a verterinarian" "Move to another state" "Give everyone more money (me too)" "Two words: George Karl" "Ignore them" "Let Piniella play" My unofficial nickname for Safeco Field: "Apocalypse Now" "Unsafeco Field" "Pioneer Saloon" "Sandman's Mud" "Money Pit" "Tremor Tiers" "Rainier Field" "White Elephant" "Alien Landing Strip" How I'd solve Seattle's housing crisis: "If I could solve it, I'd be so rich I wouldn't care either." "Alterations in regulations and philosophy" "Can't do it; it's too late" "Fire all VIPs" "More tent cities" "Outlaw automobile traffic, and turn parking garages into affordable housing" "Doze the condos and build massive low-income housing" "Build housing, not ballparks" "Close a golf course" "Turn Safeco Field into a shantytown" "Revamp Kingdome" "Keep the Kingdome for bums (free popcorn and beer all day)" "Put apartments in the Kingdome; call it Homeless Dome" "House them in the stadium" "Kingdome condominiums for the homeless" "Move out (I am)" What should happen to Microsoft: "Become owned by the people of Seattle" "Go bankrupt and die" "Merge with Boeing" "Catch a flu" "Prosper and grow" "Let the market (and the Supreme Court) decide" "Microsoft should become competent at writing software" "I thought `M' made things happen" "Who gives a fuck? They'll get what they deserve" "Who cares? Macintosh rules!" My deepest sexual secret: "If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret now, would it?" "My hand" "Loaves of bread soaked in a bucket of water" "I used to wet my bed" "Stung by bee on head of penis during sex on rooftop" "I deeply enjoy the company of women who perform acts of bestiality. You may blackmail me now." "I jacked off upside down, came in my mouth, and spit it out" "Doing it on top of a car, out back of the bar" "Dark, musty, used book stores turn me ON" "Viagra costs too much!" "I don't get nearly enough of it" "I would like to lose my virginity again, please" "Just to get head, other than from beer" All the world's problems would be solved if only: "I was the Queen" "I was King of the Forest (not duke, etc.)" "People would wake up" "I would listen" "Nekkid women would kill Bill Gates on live PPV TV" "God came and killed Jesse Helms" "Scottish matrons took over--porridge for all!" "Everyone had the same problems at the same time" "There were more climbers, instead of campers" "We had less greedy people" "Open-minded people were more superior" "It weren't for stupid people" "Every human lacked the ability to reproduce" "There were no people" "People traveled to a third-world country once" Seattle needs more _____ and less ______: Old buildings/condos Sun/stadiums Coffee/bands Games/toys Drugs/cops Breakfast joints/people who write shit they know nothing about Good drivers/bad drivers Tacomans/Olympians Locals/tourists Cool people/dumb people Doers/wannabes Real people/poseurs People/jerks Inspiration/attitude Insight/pomp Style/attitude "Women in love with me"/incompetent poets

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