Thanks to ye who attended our intimate little MISC Salon yesterday evening. Apologies to whomever tried to make it but couldn’t, because for a period of time that day another tenant of the space locked the front doors without telling me. We’ll do another gathering soon; watch this space for particulars.

GET YER MERCH HERE!: The luscious MISC Boutique is now online. T-shirts, coffee mugs, tank tops, mouse pads, even boxer shorts are offerred bearing Sean Hurley’s hand-drawn logo from our Summer 2001 issue (which is nearly gone from most dropoff spots–to make sure you get yours, subscribe.)

SPEAKING OF MR. HURLEY, our print mag’s illustrious illustrator has an art opening this Tuesday evening at the Little Theater, 608 19th Ave. E. (at Mercer) in Seattle’s east Capitol Hill neighborhood. His paintings and drawings never cease to amaze and astound. Be there, amigos and amigas.

ELSEWHERE:

You don’t have to use southern-California slang in your own life, but a UCLA student survey reveals a new regional definition down there of the term “ballerina”– as “an immoral person with a moral facade.”

“AIDS is not the wrath of God, nature’s revenge, or the new bubonic plague; it is a nasty infectious disease that requires clear thinking and investigation to overcome.”