…I’ve been busy this week getting the next MISC print mag together. You still have time to place an ad in it; email for the particulars.

SEATTLE-AREA READERS ought to get out tonight (Friday) to the Red & Gold Gallery, 214 S. Jackson St. (between the Amtrak station and the rubble of the Fenix Underground). Jennifer Velasco (who wrote “Which Loss Is Worse?” in our last print-mag issue) and Jaime Depaz have an ultra-cool fashion show at 7 p.m. there, along with a dance performance and a set by the breezy pop band Laguna. See y’all there.

ONE WEB-EXCLUSIVE PIECE I am working on for next week is a list of Reasons To Love America. At this time of ultra-sappy patriotic fervor, you see, there are still some (actually many) things I realized I did love about The Land of E Pluribus Unum; many of which haven’t been mentioned in any of this month’s sappy-patriotic speeches and ads. You know: Corn dogs, upbeat-consensual porn videos for every known fetish, Wall Drug, high-school-graduation keggers, cookie-dough ice cream, 217 cable channels (at least 10 of which are showing the same dumb movie at any given time), drive-in biker movies, etc. etc. Send in your suggestions now.