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"Fuck New York, Paris, Milan and London" by Adrian Ryan In this wickedly funny take on New York's Fashion Week, Adrian Ryan boils Seattle's fashion philosophy down to the essentials: "Seattle is blessedly free of label whores and name-droppers, and its style-savvy natives have boiled the true essence of fashion down to its simplest and most effective elements: A) Do I look like I just got fucked? B) Does it look like I care that I look like I just got fucked? and C) Will this look get me fucked again?" - - - - - - - - - - - - Detroit Metro Times, Sept. 29-Oct. 6 "Comic Booked!" by Devin O'Leary For Banned Books Week, Devin O'Leary looks at how censorship has hurt the comic-book industry. His description of Mike Diana's 1994 conviction on obscenity charges (upheld by the Supreme Court in 1998) is an eye-opening example of how free speech is being stifled. - - - - - - - - - - - - Missoula Independent, Sept. 23-29 "Celebrating Censorship" by Blake de Pastino Also in honor of Banned Books Week, this little essay is not an exciting read, but it does mention something that is: the American Library Association's newly published "Books Challenged or Banned in 1998-'99," which chronicles a year's worth of attempts to ban books. - - - - - - - - - - - - For reasons unfathomable to this staid unbeliever, an excess of stories about the paranormal, conspiracies and other "X-Files"-inspired madness seem to be gracing the pages of the weeklies this season. For you, a summary. Ghost hunters! They work very, very hard to see dead people. Learn about "intelligent haunting" vs. "residual haunting," and what cats see when they spaz for no apparent cause. Intelligent ghosts repeatedly crashed my browser as I attempted to read this article. (Philadelphia City Paper, Sept. 30-Oct. 6) UFO theorists Who cares if the truth is out there? What does it mean? Several men convene in a small western Washington town to hash it out. (Seattle Weekly, Sept. 23-Oct. 6) Gamers A moment of your time, please. I have a confession to make. During my unglamorous early college years, I was a gamer. Not a devoted, fanatical gamer, mind you. But I spent my share of sunny Saturdays hunched over a game board in somebody's kitchen. Civilization? Eight action-packed hours of plagues, territory skirmishes and resin trading! Axis and Allies? Oh, honey! I sucked at Diplomacy, but survived several rounds of Nuclear War. And Rail Baron, sweet Rail Baron ... Then came bigger, faster computers with all their fancy-ass software versions of the games I loved. I became too busy to play my beloved games, but lamented the seemingly certain demise of the dice and cardboard medium. But no, sweet Jesus, no! Jamais Cascio takes a look at how the Internet has revived old-fashioned gaming. (Seattle Weekly, Sept. 23-Oct. 6) Unnatural disasters Does Mother Nature cause hurricanes? Or do people? A cheery look at the latest in global warming theories. (Orlando Weekly, Sept. 22-28)
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