FOR THE 11TH TIME, here we go with the annual Misc. In/Out List. As always, it predicts what will become in or out within the next year, not necessarily what’s in or out now. If everything that was supposed to be hot at one time just kept getting hotter into the infinite future, we’d all now be listening to Marky Mark CDs, wearing New Romantic frills, and dining on oat-bran-coated pork rinds. Thanks to all who suggested items; some of your suggestions are posted below.

INSVILLE...................OUTSKI

Gentlemen..................Guys

Orbitz.....................Mountain Dew

Forest green...............Teal

Reno.......................The Vegas Strip

Gwyneth Patrow.............Demi Moore

Absinthe...................Ecstasy

Dick's Deluxe..............Arch Deluxe

Mac clones.................Windows clones

DVD........................Pay-Per-View

Writing....................Literature

Lovers.....................Fighters

Tacos......................Wraps

Women with nipple rings sneering at women with implants
...........................People in leather sneering at people in fur

Georgetown.................Fremont

Hype!soundtrack............Pulp Fiction soundtrack

BSA........................Harley-Davidson

Real liberalism............Boomer hegemony

Real conservatism..........Corporate hegemony

Univision..................Fox

ADSL.......................Cable modems

Light-rail construction....Condo construction

Street nudity..............Internet porn

Lutherans..................Evangelicals

Oil painting...............Oil companies

Chubby and Tubby...........Niketown

Phone cards................Baseball cards

Ankles.....................Butts

Sojourners magazine........The 700 Club

Wallace Stevens............Charles Bukowski

Morris Minor...............Range Rover

Plymouth Prowler...........Lexus

ABL........................NFL

Replacing the Dome.........Saving the Hawks

Mensa tests................Drug tests

Danken's...................Ben & Jerry's

Orgies.....................Raves

Monorail Initiative........Anti-stadium initiative

Slot-car racing............Snowboarding

"Dee-lish"................."X-treme"

DIY Internet radio.........NPR

Silkscreens................Glass art

Banjos.....................Electric guitars

Home sweatshops............Overseas sweatshops

Old pickups................Sport utility vehicles

KIXI.......................KMTT

Donuts.....................Bagels

NW filmmaking..............NW location shooting

Drew Carey.................Robin Williams

29 Live....................Richard Lee

Juliette Brioche...........Pamela Anderson Lee

'30s revival...............'70s revival

Toques.....................Baseball caps

Carrie Akre (finally)......Alanis

Straight-edgers drinking...Vegans smoking

Shuffleboard...............Doom

Sorbonne...................Evergreen

Rebuilding cities..........Deconstructing texts

Sheryl Lee Ralph...........Whitney Houston

Chanel #5..................Patchouli

Free-love cults............Militias

Ads in high schools........Ads on web pages

Diet pills.................Ab machines

Real towns.................Subdivisions

Diner food.................Peasant food

Flaxseed...................Hemp

Some Of Your Suggestions

From: "L. Bauman"

OUT with Richard Lee (unless he can produce some evidence!) **I'm a fan of the idea behind public access TV, but can't say as there has been anything on there worth watching of late.

Oh, and IN with the 50th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash! **don't tell any of my serious SETI friends but I am banking that New Mexico, in the new year just goes plain NUTS with this. The Stranger should send someone to cover the story.... Talk about culture.

Sampai Jumpa Lagi-

Laurie

From:rice@blarg.net

Organization: ricemag

In: Pleasant old ladies that work in blue-collar laundromats.

Out: Obnoxious twenty-somethings that work in trendy laundromats.

From: Janet & Wiley (jbuttenw@waonline.com)

Dear Clark,

I feel the collective mood of the entire city can be summed up with the

following:

Out, new stadia; In, the Kingdome!

It's ugly and troublesome, but at least its already built.

Sincerely,

Matthew Wiley.

From: Karl Sponberg (sponberg@u.washington.edu)

In......................................Out

Seattle Reign!..........................Sonics

Torreafazione (sp?).....................Starbucks

Georgetown..............................Fremont

Everett Giants..........................Mariners

Cellophane Square.......................Tower Records

Twice Sold Tales........................Borders Books

SPU Falcons.............................UW Huskies

The Crest Cinema........................Any first run movie house,

........................................but esp. Cineplex Odious

Chubby & Tubby..........................Niketown

Deface the Nation.......................The McLaughlin Group

Drew Carey..............................Seinsmeld

Banjos..................................Electric guitars

Celtic dance............................The macarena

Newsradio...............................Friends

Old pickup trucks.......................Sport Utility Vehicles

Simple sentences........................Jargon

Missions................................Mission statements

Writing letters.........................the internet

Donuts..................................Bagels

Love the column!

Karl