A MONTH AGO, we began a countdown to the gigantic MISCmedia 15th Anniversary celebratory fete on June 2 (details at the left side of this virtual page), with a glimpse of the art show that’ll be part of the festivity–randomly-ordered pix of every home yr. web-pal had lived in. Today, some more.

#14: 4533 9th Avenue NE. A small, cruddy room in the basement of a small, cruddy house in the U District. Occupied March-April 1982.

Following my winter’s exile in Ballard, I returned to the local Ground Zero of ultra-cheap ex-student housing. My room was the one with the window seen in the bottom left corner of this picture. It was the room’s only window. I shared the kitchen and bathroom with the owner and his sons, who lived in the rest of the basement. The main floor was rented out to four lesbians who played Frank Sinatra records at full blast.

The week after I moved in, a “For Sale” sign appeared on the front lawn. The owner assured me that day that I wouldn’t have to leave. The lesbians and I were evicted three weeks later.

After I moved (to a commercial rooming house), I learned that author Thomas Pynchon may have lived there while working as a Boeing technical writer and starting his first novel V.

NEXT: Another entry in this series.

ELSEWHERE:

• Tiny but full-length streaming video files of some forgotten Warner Bros. Cartoons, including some of the ones Warner won’t let Cartoon Network show due to racial characterizations….
• Rock isn’t dead. Rock criticism, however, might be….