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Okay, so I was tagged by

jkivela, who cleverly flattered me in the same breath, so I'll do the meme. Flattery will get you everywhere; philately will merely force the USPS to haul you around.

For eight days you have to post something that made you happy that day.

Okay, huh. It's been kind of a not-good not-bad day, really, and mainly that's all because of YAY MORE SNOW. Also, we have been upgraded from 2" new snow expected to another winter storm warning with 3"-8" expected. But there've been some positive things. I think.

Number one with a bullet is that I haven't lost power (knock on wood, I won't tonight, either.)

Two would have to be that I annoyed

graeae with sparkle text. Because she deserves it. At least I didn't use the dancing-dick sparkle background.

But! The main thing that is making me happy (other than that people with studded snow tires came up and hauled me out of my apartment and took me to lunch a whole two miles away) is that I have rediscovered Almost Live. That used to be Seattle's version of SNL, and it was pretty damn funny (though I will note that if you watch COPS in Ballard, COPS in Kent, and COPS in Wallingford sequentially, you totally see the pattern of the skit) and, most importantly, never ever gave me the Motts, which SNL does all the time.

And it turns out that a lot of it is on YouTube, which I find AWESOME. It's sort of weird (since I never see anything on TV anyway) to see skits that I remember from watching the show.

Side note: this is the show that confused the hell out of me about when SNL starts. It showed at 11:30 on Saturdays, bumping SNL to midnight, so when SNL started airing at 11:30 this year, I had a mini meltdown, because I knew I was right that it started at midnight because I stayed up to watch SNL and Headbanger's Ball and they were on at the same time.

Today, I realised that I really was right and everyone else was wrong. SNL used to start at midnight. Fuckers, doubting me.

These may be too PNW-mocking to make sense, but let's find out.

Ballard Driving Academy.
Lynnwood Beauty Academy.
The Streetwalking Lawyers of Aurora Avenue.
COPS in Kent.

And on a down note (and one that I, as a native Seattlite, proud child of blue-collar parents) find hits a little too close to home: Seattle Is A-Changing.

God I miss this show.

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"You just wash it down with a peach microbrew..."

Unless you're a real Seattlite, in which case you're still waiting for Rainier - REAL Rainier - to come back. Or Oly.

It was actually really disjunctive, listening to that clip. So much of what they're talking about is part of the lifestyle that I am really firmly entrenched in; I get coffee at Starbucks and Tullys all the time, I've seen the change in downtown, I barely remember F&N, but it feels like it's the way things should be. I do remember Seattle as a smaller, less pretentious, less money-grubbing city, and I miss it - even though I was only 14 when things really started to change. It's not as though I was entrenched in the blue-collar life of Seattle, nor as if I was ever going to work in a factory; I can't decide if it's fake nostalgia or real.

Ha, yes, SNL used to start at midnight for the Seattle viewing area only. This meant east of the mountains you could start watching at 11:30 OR 12, depending on whether you wanted to watch KING5 or KNDO, up until they changed the rules that only the "local" station is allowed to show the networky shows for most purposes

See, I totally knew I wasn't crazy, but I had a total meltdown when we were watching SNL for the Fey eps (that show really does give me the Motts) and it started at 11:30. And now I know why. And it's sort of beautiful.

You actually get KING5 there, or were you living closer to Seattle at the time?

Hee. I grew up in Eastern Washington.

Which is...not necessarily closer. *g* Course, I watch KBTC all the time, when I watch TV, so I guess the signals go further than I think they do.

Nothing was more startling than when I drove to Utah a few years ago and realised I was picking up KOMO AM 1000 on the radio.

To be honest, I didn't know it started before midnight any time anywhere ever. It has always been on at midnight. And that was true in Oregon too, from what I remember from being really young.

It ain't any more. It makes sense why, but I hadn't even thought about Almost Live! when having my impressive argument; it was really disconcerting that it started right after the news.