Obvious Diversion in Seattle Magazine’s Best of 2005
When I received an email informing me that Obvious Diversion had been chosen for Seattle Magazine’s Best of 2005, two thoughts came to mind. I’m incredibly honored to be considered in a category that will also include best local storage facility and will there be complimentary booze at the party? The answer? Yes.
Where in the magazine? Turn to “The Best of the Rest” section. Now keep going past “Best Storage Facility” and the real estate agent section that looks like a time-warped high school year book and you’ll finally find me between “Best Kept Secret at Sea-Tac Airport” and “Cheap Thrill” on page 212.
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Double-click on this: When 29-year-old sometime New Yorker Christian Gloddy landed in Seattle a year ago, he launched the prerequisite blog for the upwardly mobile young techie. ObviousDiversion.com showcases Gloddy’s keen eye for smart design, offers relevant news bits and taps trends as they happen, from hair products to watch design to the best local umbrellas. We’d like to chalk it up to beginner’s luck, but this guy’s get-up-and-go puts locals to shame.
Touted as “The Party of the Year” and sold out at $45 a pop, I decided to show up as a bit of an anthropological expedition to find out who reads Seattle Magazine and loves it enough to pay $45. There’s a lot of criticism I could heap on about this party, but I’ll leave it at this: The party of the year shouldn’t have thirty minute lines for booze. We stayed about an hour, grabbed our gift bags and headed home.
Clearly, it’s all downhill from here. Next up for me is a casual but accelerating drug habit, a failed intervention staged by friends, a second intervention where they play videotapes featuring Tony “My Teeth Are Whiter Than White” Robbins and finally a hard landing in the harsh reality that is middle-management.
Oh, and everyone knows the best kept secret at Sea-Tac airport is the enjoyable pat-downs by Linda in security. Homeland Security has never been sexier.
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Congrats. It looks like the guy in the yellow pajama suit was having his party of the year, at least.
Congrats!
That guy was nothing but pure nightmare fuel for small children.
Dude, in 1992 I convinced my junior high class to have an “under the sea” themed class float for homecoming (my campaign was against an AIDS awareness float with the rationale that floats shouldn’t be depressing, political, or a combination of both). Since the “under the sea” float was my idea, and the karma gods of immune deficiency were not on my side, we naturally came in last.
The reason I tell of my shame is that people we dressed up as starfish looked EXACTLY like that weird guy! He stole my costume design!
Oh jesus, just what you need, more ego material.
Yeah, let me tell you, I’ve really let my ego get out of hand with being buried in the back of Seattle Magazine next to the real estate personals. If you think I’m bad though, you should go say hi to Frank who works at Seattle’s best storage facility.
I just wanted to say “Contrats” !
and Nice tie!