AS PROMISED YESTERDAY, here are selected, anonymous responses to this year’s MISC.-O-Rama questionnaire, as handed out at the Big Book of MISC. prerelease party last Tuesday.
Favorite food/drink:
- “Pesto tortallini/Alabama slammer”
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“Spinach/Fat Tire beer”
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“Guinness”
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“Lately, Ethiopian food”
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“Black Butte Porter”
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“Lasagna/Guinness”
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“Beer/beer/pot”
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“Pizza/chai and caffeine/coffee”
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“Lay’s potato chips”
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“Manchego cheese/Fino sherry”
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“2nd Ave. Pizza; Puerco Liozon tamales”
Favorite store, if any:
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“Cinema Books”
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“Safeway”
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“Ola Wyola”
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“Le Frock”
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“Pike Place Market”
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“Seattle Micro”
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“Larry’s Deli”
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“Nelson’s on Queen Anne”
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“Left Bank Books”
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“Spy-PI”
Favorite website, if any:
Favorite Pokemon character:
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“Golem”
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“Psyduck”
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“Golduck”
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“Charmander”
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“Any evil Pokemon”
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“Depends on my moods”
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“Huh?”
Favorite catch phrase:
What I’d like on the MISC. Media website:
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“Online gambling”
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“Opinions on current movies and TV happenings”
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“Page #s”
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“Free money”
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“More Korn”
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“Porn-free”
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“`Things I Like’ and `Misc.’ columns”
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“Truthful, relevant info”
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“Clark rules!!”
How I feel about Y2K:
My prediction for the new century:
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“Mexico’s century”
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“Isn’t going to be any end of the world”
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“Greed will be the end of us”
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“More millionaires”
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“We’ll continue evolving”
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“Non-violent complementary holist revolution”
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“Total economic and social breakdown”
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“Technology will rage”
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“Plastic guns, TVs that come with cameras so people can have their 15 minutes of fame”
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“Cool stuff”
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“It will happen”
How I’d fix the Mariners:
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“Too late”
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“Show everyone that they don’t actually mean anything”
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“Sell them out of state”
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“Bring back Randy”
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“Greg Maddux”
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“Less superstar status on players”
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“Put the Braves and the Yankees into a temporal vortex for 30 years or so”
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“Fix the Sonics instead. Fire Vin Baker and Polynice”
Does Seattle suck? Why/why not?
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“It’s trying hard to”
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“Seattle is still an insecure deb, an easy mark for the carpetbaggers. But that’s sort of endearing in a tries-too-hard sort of way.”
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“Greed, greed, greed will be the end of us”
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“Sometimes–too much encroaching gentrification”
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“No–some of the best people on Earth live here”
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“No”
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“No. Someday we may be a Vancouver, B.C.”
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“No–not yet”
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“Yes–the invation of ugly commercial L.A. architecture”
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“No fucking way”
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“Seattle is a place. People and their actions universally suck.”
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“People–no. Politics–yes.”
What this town needs (other than construction projects)
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“More books like yours”
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“More Charlie Chong/Emmett Watson type activists/characters”
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“Noam Chomsky shoved down their throats”
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“A committee to fight for the rights of the homeless”
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“Street parking; or an innovative way to bring people in”
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“A decent Mexican restaurant”
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“Outdoor seating at bars/restaurants”
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“A whole new life–less Starbucks; less stuff. Less is more.”
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“Cheap rent”
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“More surf instrumental bands”
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“Less people; less money”
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“Fewer buildings; less people; more beer!”
All the world’s problems can be blamed on:
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“My parents”
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“Bill Gates!”
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“Bill Gates, greed, sexism, and Starbucks”
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“Bill Clinton, Saddam Hussein, and Michael Jackson”
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“Greedy, greedy, greedy little pigs”
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“Big business”
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“Attorneys”
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“Republicans and religious right-wingers”
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“Morality legislation”
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“Ignorance”
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“Questionnaires”
TOMORROW: The party highlights continue with the best entries in our Insta-Poem game.
