The Journal for Good People with Bad Jobs

Issues contain an Editor's Letter, Commuter's Notebook, Cartoons and CD reviews. We printed a bunch of stories about unpleasant work experiences collected under Bad Jobs. A gallery of cartoons are grouped together in Cartoons. If you are looking for a particular band covered in Whatever, use this list.

Issue 1

Issue One

Cobain Conspiracy
Ice Cream Man
Bootlegs
Rev Gills
Issue 2

Issue Two

Marilyn Manson
Sextasy Ball
George Clinton
The Muffs
Issue 3

Issue Three

Bush
Oasis
Everclear
Ramones
Issue 4

Issue Four

Sex Pistols
Rage Against The Machine
River Rave
Issue 5

Issue Five

Marilyn Manson
Bosstones
Goldfinger
John Spencer
Royal Crowns
Issue 6

Issue Six

Janes's Addiction
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Wu Tang
Issue 7

Issue Seven

Beastie Boys
Foo Fighters
Pearl Jam
Liz Phair
Issue 8

Issue Eight

Liz Phair
Rob Zombie
Amazing Crowns
Manson
Issue 9

Issue Nine

Lords of Acid
Praga Khan
Foo Fighters
Donnas
Issue 10

Issue Ten


Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Donnas
Punk Poster Pete Interview
Issue 11

Issue Eleven

The White Stripes
Nashville Pussy
The Dictators
Donnas
Issue 12

Issue Twelve


The Dictators
Donnas
Bosstones
Darkbuster Reunion
Issue 12

Issue Thirteen

RISD Show:
Providence Underground

Brief History

Whatever began in 1995 as a print issue and then moved to the web in late 1995. It first appears in the Internet Archive in 1997 as www.whateverhq.com. We had a fire theme in June 1998. By January of 1999, we changed the domain to whateverhq.tmok.com and started running Top 11 Lists in a scrossing javascript. Mike "blogged" from Woodstock '99 by phoning in reports to the staff. You can read the Top 11 Resasons The Boy Scouts Can't Ban Gays. We got a little weird in 2000 and made fun of David Spade. By August 2001, the current issue was Nine and the home page looked like this. In June of 2002, we tried for a more "professional" look. We got lazy about making new issues and in June 2003, we added the blog. We didn't start loading it onto the front end until around June 2004. The rest of the history can be found in the blog archives.