…and instead attend our glorious Son of MISCsalon public hashing-out session. Some of the print MISC’s writers and artists will discuss the mag’s future, possible fundraisers, favorite Halloween costumes for this season so besmirched by real-life horror, and a properly palindromic greeting for the year 2002.

It’s all this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2 p.m.-on, at the spacious and well-lit Zeitgeist coffeehouse, in Pioneer Square at 2nd Ave. S. and S. Jackson St.

Then later that evening (7 pm), many of us will trek to Titlewave Books on lower Queen Anne for its monthly reading series, curated as always by print MISC contributor Doug Nufer. A plangent time is guaranteed to all.

Greg Thompson Productions, the Seattle-based mounter of musical revues in Vegas and elsewhere, held its annual pre-Halloween costume and garage sale recently. Sequins! G-strings! Wigs! Audio mixers! Prop motorcycles! Scenery flats! Even a real Rolls-Royce (for $25,000 OBO).