Things Invented In or Around the City of Seattle
Having traded being employed in vacinity of Los Angeles for being unemployed in the vacinity of Seattle I've got an uncomfortable amount of free time on my hands. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but here is a handy list of Things Invented In or Around the City of Seattle that you can bring up at the next dinner party you're invited to.
1) Misery. Not the book by Stephen King or the movie by whats-his-name, but general malais and melancholy.
2) Grunge, the music and/or lifestyle. People can't seem to let go of it up here and - with little provocation - will gleefully recount their experience seeing Nirvana in concert. Note: the real hepcats in the vacinity of Seattle will tell you about the time they saw The Gits.
3) Starbucks. Oh yeah. That's right. We've got the very first Starbucks in the whole wide world and man is it crappy.
4) Windows and the 404 Error. Oh double yeah.
5) The Experience Music Project. Some sort of music memento collection that's housed in a building with nary a straight line in sight. Which reminds me of a joke in Beverly Hills Cop 2 where Eddie Murphy demands that some construction guys build a house without any right angles. Turns out it's not as funny in real life.
6) The Space Needle. The Pacific Northwest's salute to the penis, made with steel and stone and has a restaurant on the top that does it's best business during Prom season.
1) Misery. Not the book by Stephen King or the movie by whats-his-name, but general malais and melancholy.
2) Grunge, the music and/or lifestyle. People can't seem to let go of it up here and - with little provocation - will gleefully recount their experience seeing Nirvana in concert. Note: the real hepcats in the vacinity of Seattle will tell you about the time they saw The Gits.
3) Starbucks. Oh yeah. That's right. We've got the very first Starbucks in the whole wide world and man is it crappy.
4) Windows and the 404 Error. Oh double yeah.
5) The Experience Music Project. Some sort of music memento collection that's housed in a building with nary a straight line in sight. Which reminds me of a joke in Beverly Hills Cop 2 where Eddie Murphy demands that some construction guys build a house without any right angles. Turns out it's not as funny in real life.
6) The Space Needle. The Pacific Northwest's salute to the penis, made with steel and stone and has a restaurant on the top that does it's best business during Prom season.
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