This Just In: Seattle is Ironically Cool

Okay, so here it is. An actual post on my blog, rather commenting something on someone else's. Can you imagine it: a day when I actually post consecutively, rather than years apart. Listening is a skill, I'm still mastering; I expect this writing thing will be something I learn eventually, too.

Back to the subject: Yes, if you got #4 correct on BikeSnobNYC's Quiz today (or not), or if you went to the launch party last night, you already know that Seattle is the host city for the next Single-Speed CycloCross World Championships (Good luck, everyone!) That's cool and all, but that's not what's making us Ironically Cool. I have no idea what cool means anymore, but I do understand that irony is the new sarcasm. I still pretend to get sarcasm.

So here it is, our local cycling club (one of the largest in the nation, I've heard), the one responsible for indoctrination furtherance and education in the region, has taken Ironic Cool to the next level.

Only tech-heavy, dork-friendly Seattle can pull off something so indescribably superlative.

C'mon America. Step up to that. I dare you to bring it.

My Alternate personality

'cause if you're going to have an alternate personality, why not make it interesting, and give it a personality disorder. Like Bizarro Superman, this is also the Salty Seattle blog.

This personality doesn't have anything interesting to say right now either.

This space reserved for Susan.

So here it is..

This is one of those ideas that tend to hit me in the middle of the night, when I can't get to sleep. It's 2008, and these are salty times we're living in right now. I started my day this morning, and now halfway through the morning, starting a blog still sounded like a good idea to the self-important side of me. So, I've started a blog.

Though, I am just narcissistic enough to believe that someone may actually read this someday, I'm not so self-important to expect, that who I, actually, am, matters all that much. I get irritated, I get angry, I get excited, and I get going. There may be some other emotions in my shallow existence, but I figure those are enough to qualify me as human enough for a blog. I could be wrong on that; I don't pretend to have all the answers.

I tip my hat to those who have come before me. There are many great blogs in the city already. I call to your attention, those outside these environs, for now: BikeSnobNYC and FatCyclist. While I collect my thoughts, stop over there for a little while, and enjoy the view..