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MISCmedia @ 20!
One of the site’s first logos, from some time in the mid 1990s. Twenty years ago this week, it was an age of dial-up modems, Windows 95, Internet cafés, and the media hype over an alleged “Seattle...
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GAYS GONE WILD OR GAYS GONE MILD?
Another late June, another Pride Parade. This time, it had the special, one-time-only, added attraction of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to celebrate. Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land from...
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ROLON BERT GARNER, 1940-2015
photo by arthur s. aubry (who himself passed on earlier this year), via earl brooks We all knew he was going. He’d had chronic COPD for many years. At his last Seattle public appearance, in early 2013,...
View ArticleMISCmedia MAIL for 9/15/16: GOING NATURAL?
We ponder what Seattle would look like without all the dredgings, regrades, and other extreme makeovers it’s had. We also explore folk turning odd spots into community gardens; a protest against...
View ArticleMISCmedia MAIL FOR 11/25/16: BLACK (LIVES MATTER) FRIDAY
Don’t think of today as a dispute between racial justice and shopping. Think of it as a potential meeting of racial justice and holiday compassion. Also: One of Belltown’s longest-running gourmet...
View ArticleMISCmedia MAIL FOR 12/28/16: WHITE LIKE ME
In our midweek missive: An activist on how white “allies” can work for racial justice without, you know, taking everything over; park-and-ride lots’ popularity; still hyper-inflating home prices; good...
View ArticleMISCmedia MAIL FOR 1/6/17: AS HE LAY DYING
Video evidence shows that police-shooting victim Che Taylor was left to bleed on the ground for almost eight minutes. We also discuss a potentially misguided effort to industrialize a suburb; big...
View ArticleMISCmedia MAIL FOR 1/23/17: NEWS ON THE MARCH
A lot more thoughts, and links, about the bigger than big Womxn’s March here. We’ve also got good news for Belltown historic preservation; a “virtual reality visit” with some of the homeless; and more...
View ArticleMISCmedia MAIL FOR 3/30/17: LIFE IMITATES CGI
It’s just a coincidence that there’s a computer-animated feature out now called “The Boss Baby,” and that the title role is voiced by Alec Baldwin, and that ads show the baby in a suit and tie with...
View Article4/26/17: FAKE MUD AND A DEMOLISHED DINER
In Tuesday’s e-missive: A new low in fashion silliness; a local landmark razed two years after its closure; a GOP state senator who wants to force the city and county to divorce; more hipster “Native...
View Article5/3/17: A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD HIM
We welcome (possibly) the first warm day of the year with a MISCmedia MAIL containing the eco-lesson a filmmaker learned from a dead albatross; another Ed Murray accuser; a longer-than-usual Mariners...
View Article5/15/17: SO GALLANTLY (UP)STREAMING
A new week of MISCmedia MAIL begins with a postmortem on Paul Allen’s big in-town music fest; a list of 13 important Washington books (and one Washington book publisher); more on America’s worst...
View Article5/22/17: I SEE YOU’VE MET THE ‘TWIN’S
Twin Peaks is back. Or rather, something mostly new under that title and with several of the old show’s characters has arrived, and it’s a beaut. Today’s MISCmedia MAIL also looks at more Chris...
View Article10/30/17: SUNK TRANSIT
We begin another wacky week of news with more supposedly-clever ways to abandon bike-share vehicles; NFL protests get more “meta”; and letting building owners sell their “airspace.” The post 10/30/17:...
View Article12/8/17: THE PUCK STARTS HERE?
In your big weekend letter: The campaign for a Seattle NHL team commences; the real cost of virtual currency; non-progress in hotel-worker safety; another major Seattle institution approaches its date...
View Article6/8/18: NOW WE ARE THREE
A birthday for this e-missive (and its maker); various Seattles that might have been; ICE mothers jailed here; peacocks vs. cars in BC. The post 6/8/18: NOW WE ARE THREE appeared first on MISCmedia by...
View Article8/10/18: SPEAKING OUT IN THE OPEN
More Meinert accusers, now willing to be named; ‘date-rape drug’ seized at Belltown nightclub; will a ‘private’ Spokane speech doom the GOP’s midterm chances? The post 8/10/18: SPEAKING OUT IN THE OPEN...
View Article8/20/18: TUNNEL VISIONS
The grandest Battery Street Tunnel idea yet; what Kim Schrier really said about WWII; a legal victory for the mentally ill; Third Avenue now bus-only; the Storm’s terrific season. The post 8/20/18:...
View Article8/27/18: BREAKING THE CYCLE?
Tariffs vs. e-bike makers; Durkan signs Showbox bill; historic recording studio to be razed; are mass shootings really ‘senseless’? The post 8/27/18: BREAKING THE CYCLE? appeared first on MISCmedia by...
View Article8/28/18: BARRED FROM USAGE
Ballard library’s newly anti-homeless exterior; smokestorm as a metaphor for urban limitations; ‘Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’ as a horror story. The post 8/28/18: BARRED FROM USAGE appeared first on MISCmedia...
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