For a freelance project, I’m after tales of wild living and financial/business excess during those wacky, never-to-be-forgotten days of the late ’90s. Insane real estate deals; folks blowing stock-option money they never tangibly had on cars, trips, or plastic surgery; bizarre tech-company office pranks and perks; cyber-libertarians and cyber-libertines. Send ’em all to clark@speakeasy.org.

‘PRESS’ CLIPPED: The North Seattle Press, “Seattle’s Bi-Weekly Urban Journal,” ran out of money and ceased publication after 16 years and at least three sets of owners. It was a feisty little rag that crammed its small editorial holes (as few as five non-ad tabloid pages) with personality and spunk.

ELSEWHERE:

Somebody who took that 1997 “bosom for a pillow” song lyric literally.

“Experts: Birds are imitating cell phones…”