(besides your subscriptions, ads, and merchandise purchases, of course: The next MISC print zine will be the “Happy Birthday Seattle” issue. It will contain a suitable-for-framing big collage image caricaturing as many of the people, places, things, and events that have made this city great as we can fit in.

We need your suggestions as per who and what oughta be in it–historical names, fictional characters, artsy types, archtypical figures, landmark buildings past and present, etc. etc. Send your ideas via email to clark@speakeasy.org. When you write, let us know if you’re willing to have your email texts posted publicly on this site. (Even if you don’t want others to read your suggestions, we’ll still appreciate them.)

UNPLUGGED: The Gibson House on 2nd, another of downtown’s last surviving dive bars (after 30 years) and a live-music club where the G-word was still spoken without irony, suddenly closed. MISC correspondents were at one of the place’s last shows and saw such spectacles as a man stripping from overalls to nada in under five seconds. Its loss leaves Zak’s Fifth Avenue as Seattle’s last real raunch-rock venue.