Pseudo-random remarks on popular culture in Seattle and beyond, 1986-1999.
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It's a big world. It's a complicated world. It's a mongrel, recursive, chaotic world.
In short, it's a MISC. world.
Clark Humphrey, former staff writer for The Stranger and The Comics Journal, now brings the best of his 13 years of scene-reporting into one handy volume, "The Big Book of MISC."
Its 228 big pages are crammed full of pop-culture commentaries relating to all sorts of topics, as viewed from the city of loud bands, strong beer, and billionaire nerds.
Some of the book's 650 short items specifically relate to Humphrey's Seattle home base; others use local examples to illustrate national trends. Some of them are serious in a funny way; others are serious in a funny way. Most of them are arranged into 36 big chapters. Some of them are stuck into the margins, as even lighter reading for the airport, bus, or bathroom. But they all come together to form a mosaic of life seen from the edge of America, at the end of the century.
"The Big Book of MISC." has it all! Sharp wit, stingy social commentary, loving remembrances, provocative analysis, politics, economics, and aesthetics. And cereal.
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Want to improve your golf game?
Want to lose weight and feel great?
Want to successfully juggle marriage, family, and career?
"The Big Book of MISC." can't help you.
Seeking the latest celebrity dirt?
Seeking the biggest looks for this fall?
Seeking the inside story about today's biggest stars?
"The Big Book of MISC." hasn't got it.
Need the secrets of America's leading companies?
Need to learn how to invest in no-load mutual funds?
Need to know the top career choices for the next decade?
"The Big Book of MISC." isn't the place.
BUT
If you can live without easy answers,
If you want to laugh and cry and think,
If you like to read about a once-remote port city,
If you enjoy politics, aesthetics, and cereal equally,
If you're prepared for a frenetic, zig-zagging journey across the fissures and connections of today's world,
Or if you'd like something funny to flip thru in the can,
"The Big Book of MISC." welcomes you.
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