…during my two-hour wait to see the doctor Monday, that I just don’t feel well when I’m not doing my real work.

So I’ve decided there indeed will be another print MISC by the end of this year.

I don’t know the format yet. It could be another magazine-style thang; it could be another newsprint freebie; it could be a trade-paperback anthology. If it must, it could even be a li’l newsletter again. But I gotta do it.

So all youse who’d promised to write for it, I’m taking you on your word again.

The theme section will still be, as stated back in February, “Positive/Negative.” My own piece for that will be a rambling essay combining my recent personal scare with thoughts I’d already been having about “positive mental attitudes” and our “alternative” community’s longstanding rejection of same. (Is it really all that “revolutionary” to just sit around and complain about everything?)

The topic has become more personal to me as I’ve re-assessed my life, my now-dangerous love of stress, my bouts of depression, and my struggles to again become a fiscally-productive member of society. Am I really “addicted” to counterproductive beliefs? Is a negative thought really a luxury I can’t afford?

I won’t promise answers, just an entertaining elaboration of the questions.

But for now, I’ll leave you pondering something I saw during the Flatstock 3 rock-poster show at Bumbershoot. Local poster designers Asterik Studio offered a $10 grab-bag of decals and stickers. Most depicted variations on Asterik’s own logo. But one simply offered, in red flowing script lettering, the slogan “SEATTLE: It’s Where Things Are HAPPENING!”

That’s the attitude (even if it does come from a company run by ex-Californians) I want my revived print rag to take. No whining, no scoffing, no I’m-too-good-for-this-down posturing. We’re here; we want to be here; we want to make things better.

You with me on this?