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A few days late but always a welcome sight, it’s the yummy return of the annual MISCmedia In/Out List.
As always, this listing denotes what will become hot or not-so-hot during the next year, not necessarily what’s hot or not-so-hot now. If you believe everything big now will just keep getting bigger, I can score you a cheap subscription to News of the World.
The new year draws nigh. Around here, that predominantly means one thing. It means we seek your nominations for MISCmedia’s 25th Annual In/Out List, North America’s most accurate predictor of future trends (in a vast array of categories). Tell us your forecasts of what will become hot and not-so-hot within the next 12 months. (Not merely what’s hot and not-so-hot right now.)
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A few days late but always more than welcome, it’s the yummy return of the annual MISCmedia In/Out List.
As always, this listing denotes what will become hot or not-so-hot during the next year, not necessarily what’s hot or not-so-hot now. If you believe everything big now will just keep getting bigger, I can get you a Hummer dealership really cheap.
It’s time to send in your nominations for MISCmedia.com’s annual In/Out List, the longest-running and only accurate list of its type anywhere.
People, places, things, celebrities, fashions, catch phrases, paint colors, politicians—all these and more are yours to choose.
Which will become hotter, which will become more not-so-hot?
Tell us now.
It’s the madcap return of the MISCmedia In/Out List.
As always, this listing denotes what will become hot or not-so-hot during the next year, not necessarily what’s hot or not-so-hot now. If you believe everything hot now will just keep getting hotter, I’ve got a great house for sale at its 2007 price.
…Time to compile our annual MISCmedia In/Out List. This, the oldest and most accurate list of its type anywhere, predicts what will become hot and not-so-hot during the following twelve months, in fields ranging from politicians and public-affairs issues to fashions, cars, and dessert products.
Get your nominations in now, via our finally-got-’em-at-last comment threads.
As always, this, the most accurate In/Out list published anywhere, compiles what will become hot and less-hot in the upcoming year, not necessarily what’s hot and less-hot at this current point in time. If you believe everything that’s hot now will just keep getting hotter in the future, we’ve got some Skykomish River waterfront cabins to sell you.
Oxycontin
’90s nostalgia
Flips
Calligraphy
Cancun
Green tea
Supporting small business
Will Ferrell
It’s the madcap return of the MISCmedia In/Out List, the longest-running and most accurate list of its type anywhere in the western hemisphere.
As long-term readers know, this is a prediciton of what will become hot and not-so-hot in the months to come. If you think everything hot now will just keep getting hotter forever, I’ve got some Mariners season tickets to sell you.
Blockbuster
Guiding Light
Thongs
Soulseek
Havana
“All your base are belong to us”
Once again, it’s time for the annual return of the MISCmedia In/Out List, the longest-running and most accurate list of its type anywhere in the western quadrant of the northern hemisphere.
As long-term readers know, this is a prediciton of what will become hot and not-so-hot in the months to come. If you think everything hot now will just keep getting hotter forever, I’ve got some Thailand beachfront timeshares to sell you.
Yep, time for that annual tradition that’s almost as old as Kwanzaa and older than e-greetings, the MISCmedia In/Out List. Send your nominations this week to our handy-dandy email addy.
Remember, we’re looking for what will become hot or not-so-hot during the course of Ought-Five, not necessarily what’s hot and not-so-hot right now. If you think everything that’s hot now’s gonna just keep getting hotter forever, I’ve got some pot-bellied pigs to sell you.
HEY EVERYBODY! It’s the madcap return of the MISCmedia In/Out List, the longest-running and most accurate list of its type anywhere in the western hemisphere.
As long-term readers know, this is a prediciton of what will become hot and not-so-hot in the months to come. If you think everything hot now will just keep getting hotter forever, I’ve got some Cubs World Series T-shirts to sell you.
…to send in your recommendations for the fantabulous annual MISCmedia In/Out List for Ought-Four. Remember, this is a prediction of what will become hot and not-so-hot in the coming year. Not everything that’s hot now will just keep getting hotter, but those of you with hurtin’ 401k plans already know that.
THE TRADITION CONTINUES: For the 15th consecutive year, here’s your fantastical MISCmedia In/Out List. Thanks to all who contributed suggestions.
As always, this list predicts what will become hot or not-so-hot over the course of the Year of HAL 9000; not necessarily what’s hot or not-so-hot now. If you think every person, place, thing, or trend that’s big now will just keep getting bigger forever, I’ve got some dot-com stocks to sell you.
(P.S.: Most every damned item on this list has a handy weblink. Spend the weekend clicking and having fun.)
INSVILLE
OUTSKI
White kids who wish they were doo-wop singers
White kids who wish they were pimps
Seattle Union Record
Seattle Scab Times
Canadian Football League
Xtreme Football League
The print version of Nerve
Hardcore pay-per-view
Classic Arts Showcase
TNN
Christian sex clubs
Abstinance preaching
The American Prospect
The Weekly Standard
Retro burlesque
Thong Thursday
Razor scooters (still)
General Motors
Independent publishing
eBooks
Jon Stewart (now more than ever)
Chris Matthews
Dot-orgs
Dot-coms
Kamikazes
Martinis
Grant Cogswell
Tim Eyman
Whoopass
Powerade
Tantra
Bloussant
2-Minute Drill
Survivor
Verso
Regnery
Political gridlock
“Bipartisanship”
Scarlet Letters
Cosmo Girl
Renewing Tacoma
Saving San Francisco
Caffe Ladro
Folger’s Latte
TiVo
UltimateTV
McSweeney’s (still)
Tin House
Napster (while it lasts)
Liquid Music
Austin, home of political chicanery
Austin, home of hip music
Lookout Records
Interscope (still)
Public displays of affection
Personal digital assistants
Jared Leto
Chris O’Donnell
Building an all-around team
Depending on one superstar
Helen Hunt
Gwyneth Paltrow
Kenneth Lonergan
Robert Zemeckis
Open-source software
Microsoft.NET
“Slow food”
Fast Company
Goth revival #7
Ska revival #13
Antenna Internet Radio
The Funky Monkey 104.9
Bed Bath and Beyond
Lowe’s Home Centers
Green Republicans
Corporate Democrats
Gents
Dudes
Vamps
Bimbos
Collecting early home computers
Collecting Pokemon cards
Concerts in houses
House music
Cafe Venus and Mars Bar
Flying Fish
Fat pride
No-carb diets
Dump-Schell movement
Kill-transit movement
Hard cider
Hard lemonade
Indie gay films
Showtime’s Queer As Folk
Boondocks
Zits
Internet telephony (at last)
Wireless Internet
Coronation Street (UK soap on CBC)
Dawson’s Creek
Energy conservation
Energy deregulation
Microsoft breakup
AOL/Time Warner merger
Dark blue
Beige
Pho
Chalupas
Caleb Carr
Stephen King
’80s nostalgia
Toyota Echo
Range Rover
Sweat equity
Venture capital
Reality
“Reality TV”
Rubies
Crystals
Blackjack
NASDAQ
Matt Bruno
Ricky Martin
Quinzo’s
Subway
Hamburg
Mazatlan
Georgetown
Belltown
Red wine
Ritalin
Rational thinking
“War on Drugs”
Economic democracy
Corporate restructuring
Culottes
Teddies
Following your own path
Believing dumb lists
NO COLUMN MONDAY, BUT ON TUESDAY: What you might see on this site in the year of Also Sprach Zarathustra.
ELSEWHERE:
THE TRADITION CONTINUES: For the 14th consecutive year, here’s your fantastical MISCmedia In/Out List. Thanks to all who contributed suggestions.
As always, this list predicts what will become hot or not-so-hot over the course of the Year of the Double-Oughts; not necessarily what’s hot or not-so-hot now. If you think every person, place, thing, or trend that’s big now will just keep getting bigger forever, I’ve got some Packard Bell PCs to sell you.
(P.S.: Every damned item on this list has a handy weblink. Spend the weekend clicking and having fun.)
Jigglypuff
Charizard
Washington Law & Politics
Washington CEO
TrailBlazers
Knicks
‘Amateur’ Net porn
LA porn industry
Game Show Network
USA Network (still)
Casual sex
Casual Fridays
The Nation
The New Republic
Women’s football
Wrestling
Gas masks
Bandanas
Begging
IPOs
Jon Stewart
Jay Leno
Public nudity
“Chastity education”
Global warming
Rolling Stone’s “Hot Issue”
Commuter rail
Anti-transit initiative
Dot-commies (online political organizing)
Good posture
Implants
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (still)
Greed
Post-Microsoft Seattle
Silicon Valley
Post-WTO Left
Corporate Right
Dalkey Archive Press
HarperCollins
Bust
Bitch
‘Love Your Dog’
‘Kill Your TV’
Artisan Entertainment
Miramax
McSweeney’s
Speak
The Donnas
TLC
Tobey Maguire
Tom Hanks
Spike Jones
Spike Jonze
Michael Moore
Mike Moore
Darren Aronofsky (Pi)
Quentin Tarantino
Finding a Kingdome implosion viewpoint
Finding a New Year’s party spot
Keeping Ken Griffey Jr.
Trading away pitching
Quitting your job
Going on Prozac
Nerdy individuality
Hip conformity
NetSlaves
Business 2.0
Drip
Lattes
Dodi
Dido
Target
Wal-Mart
Amazons
Pensive waifs
Post-corporate economic theory
Dissertations about Madonna
Electric medicine
HMOs
“Girlie” magazines
“Bloke” magazines
Graceland
Last Supper Club
Labor organizing
Hoping for stock options
Yoga
Tae Bo
Urbanizing the suburbs
Gentrifying the cities
The Powerpuff Girls
The Wild Thornberrys
New library
New football stadium
Detroit
Austin
African folk art
Mexican folk art
As the World Turns
Passions
Liquid acid (alas)
Crystal
Dyed male pubic hair
Dreadlocks
Scarification
Piercings
People who think UFOs are real
People who think wrestling’s real
Red Mill
iCon Grill
76
BP/Amoco/Arco and Exxon/Mobil
Rock/dance-music fusion
Retro disco
Peanuts retirement
Garth Brooks retirement
Maximillian Schell
Paul Schell
Breaching dams
Smashing Pumpkins
Smart Car
Sport-utes (now more than ever)
Contact
Dildonics
Orange
Blue
Public accountability
Police brutality
Pioneer Square
Matchless
Godsmack
Buena Vista Social Club soundtrack
Pulp Fiction soundtrack (finally)
Labor/hippie solidarity
‘Cool’ corporations
Performance art
Performance Fleece
Radical politics
‘Radical sports’
Chloe Sevigny
Kate Winslet
International Herald Tribune
Morning Seattle Times
Piroshkies
Wraps
Prague
London
Kozmo.com
Blockbuster (still)
The exchange of ideas
Fatigues
Khakis
First World Music
Interscope
Gill Sans
Helvetica
Pretending to be Japanese
Pretending to be gangstas
Botany 500
Blink 182
Tanqueray
Jaegermeister
Bremerton
Duvall
Nehi
Surge
Jimmy Corrigan
Dilbert
Cross-cultural coalitions
In-group elitism
Northern Ireland peace plan
Lord of the Dance
Hard bodies
Soft money
Doing your own thing
‘Rebelliously’ doing exactly what Big Business wants
MONDAY: I’m perfectly confident there will still be electricity and computer networks, and am prepared to ring in the double-ought year with a Peanuts tribute.
MISC., your post-print column for (what the Times Personal Tech section calls) the post-television age, was amused by the double standards and double dribbles in that front-page P-I headline on 12/22/98: “Reign star Enis judges basketball, parenthood.” Y’ever see a headline like that about, say, Shawn Kemp?
Alas, that P-I story was one of the last written in the local dailies about the Seattle Reign before the team’s parent American Basketball League announced its sudden, permanent shutdown, leaving fans as bereft of pro women’s b-ball as it is of the men’s game. One could lay the blame for the ABL’s demise on the rival WNBA, with its megabucks backing, its marketable-superstar orientation, and its stranglehold on sponsors and TV outlets. But a less-discussed factor was the league’s management structure. While it claimed to be a grassroots, fan-level outfit, it was really a centralized company which owned all its teams, hired and assigned all its players, and otherwise tightly ran all operations and marketing–just like the Roller Derby, Arena Football, and other assorted marginal team-sports ventures of the past three decades.
The graveyard of new team-sports organizations in North America is full of four decades’ worth of great and less-great visions, from the American Basketball Association to the World Football League and the U.S. Football League, to World Team Tennis and several attempts at indoor soccer. Aside from the American Football League (which got all its teams merged into the NFL in the late ’60s), none were long-term successes. (The only current such ventures with a chance at making it are Major League Soccer and the aforementioned WNBA.) None of those attempts found the formula for nationwide popularity and profits; though some tried to find such a formula thru centralized management. A single-ownership league structure (like that of the ABL) can present a unified public image and prevent a single well-heeled team owner from attaining an uncompetitive dynasty situation (like that which ruined the old North American Soccer League). But it also means local team managers can’t build their own squads, around personalities or playing styles popular in their own towns. And when league HQ runs out of cash and/or ideas, there aren’t local team owners (or buyers) to come up with individual solutions other teams can copy.
But for now, the WNBA (with its emphasis on megabucks and celebrity-driven advertising, and its neglect (or worse) of any lesbian fan base) is the remaining structure for women’s pro hoops, at least until the parent NBA can no longer afford to subsidize it (which, if there’s not even a mini-NBA season, might be more likely and sooner). Wish I had more encouraging news for stranded Reign fans, but a pro league of any sort, especially one with teams scattered across the continent, is an undertaking requiring immense logistics, savvy, and long-term backing. The ABL way didn’t work, and neither has just about any other way.
THE HOLIDAY TRADITION CONTINUES: For the 13th consecutive year, here’s your fantastical Misc. In/Out List. Thanks to all who contributed suggestions via private email and the public Misc. Talk discussion boards; and apologies to those whose board postings I accidentally erased last week. (I think I’ve gotten the hang of the discussion-board software scripts by now.) As always, this list predicts what will become hot or not-so-hot over the course of ’99; not necessarily what’s hot or not-so-hot now. If you think every person, place, thing, or trend that’s big now will just keep getting bigger, I’ve got some Tickle Me Elmo dolls to sell you.
Apple “P1” laptop computer
Y2K scare tactics
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Pipes
Cigars
Caffe Vita
Tully’s
“Got __?”
“Yo Quiero __”
The WB
Fox
Asian (economic) Flu
“The Long Boom”
BBC America
PBS
Elan
Panache
Linux
Windows 2000
Cracked Divx videos
Pirated MP3 music files
Pic-N-Save
Pacific Place
Saving the Kalakala
Stopping the Makah whale hunt
Digital video camcorders
Furby
Dipsy
Po
Win Ben Stein’s Money
New Hollywood Squares
The PJs
King of the Hill
Philosophy
Semiotics
`Enough Is Enough’
Christian Coalition
Falcons
Forty-Niners
Lions Gate Films
DreamWorks SKG
New Rocky and Bullwinkle
New Star Wars
Felicity
Ally McBeal
Ed Norton
Leo DiCaprio
Todd Solondz
Gus Van Sant
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)
Meg Ryan
Mammoth Records
Universal Music Group
Perfect 10
Barely Legal
Mode
Vogue
Bento
Pan-Asian Cuisine
Less Than Jake
Better Than Ezra
Brita
Bottled water
Fruitta
Jones Soda
Westwood Village
University Village
Nude shuffleboard
Pro wrestling
Kroger/Fred Meyer
DaimlerChrysler
Bibliofind.com
Barnes & Noble/Ingram merger
ESPN The Magazine
Esquire
Sympathy for Kathi Goertzen
Sainthood for John Stanford
Ned’s
eBay fraud
Junk e-mail
Independent Film Channel
USA Network
Ken’s Market
Larry’s Market
New Cyclops restaurant
New baseball stadium
Imploding the Kingdome on 1/1/2000
Lighting bridges on 1/1/2000
Love lotteries
Personal ads
Pachinko
Megatouch
Bikini
Lovers
Survivors
Deliberately obvious toupees
Propecia
Female all-instrumental bands
Lilith Fair singers
Pabst
Miller
Pyramid
Redhook
Bars subsidized by pulltab sales
Bars subsidized by cigarette ads
Black
“The new black”
Tiffany Anders
Celine Dion
Pinot noir
Merlot
Psychographics
Demographics
Cubs
Braves
Co-housing conversions
Condo conversions
Mutts
Teen drinking
Pre-teen makeup
White Center
Death Cab For Cutie
Dudley Manlove Quartet
Mystic pseudo-science
Fundamentalist pseudo-science
Hedy Lamarr
Marilyn Monroe
Tweedy & Popp’s (Wallingford)
Restoration Hardware
Pokemon
Rugrats
South Park (the Seattle neighborhood)
South Park (the TV show)
Promoting real diversity
White and/or male guilt-tripping
Neo-syndicalism
Global Business Network
Hungarian operettas
Raves
NBA death watch
Apple death watch
The Tentacle
Downtown Voice
Istanbul
Berlin
Sound Transit commuter rail
Trucks
Airstreams
Minivans
Plane-crash videos
Animal-attack videos
Creators
Celebrities
Outlandish heteros
“Mainstreamed” gays
Tycoons (the band)
Day traders
In-group patronization
Pious indignation
Direct action
“civil society”
Streaming net video
Cable access
Partying naked
Wearing `Party Naked’ T-shirts
“I love everybody and you’re next”
“Do I look like I give a damn?”
Following advice found on web sites
UNTIL NEXT WE MEET in the year so great there’s a Washington highway named after it, pace yourself by toasting the New Year once for each North American time zone (starting with Newfoundland at 7:30 p.m. PST), and ponder these thoughts attributed to Lillian Helman: “If I had to give young writers advice, I’d say don’t listen to writers talking about writing.”