Almost Missed Almost Live
More recent transplants to Seattle read no further. You won't be interested in this post's subject matter and if Seattlest tried to describe to you the many subtle pleasures of Almost Live you would probably come away with the feeling that the show is a provincial, cable access level copy of a copy of Saturday Night Live. And since Saturday Night Live itself sucks (except the news - we love you Tina) we just feel we're not going to get anywhere trying to convert you. Opinions do vary, though, so who knows, maybe you should check it out anyway. After all, Bill Nye didn't just get crapped out of the Space Needle one day. He got roots.
The rest of you who grew up in the area may mark 1999 as a banner year in your development as a media consuming member of society. Almost Live went off the air in that year and although you, of course, share the widely held opinion that it went downhill after Nye left, you still tuned in on Saturday night. Remember watching TV on Saturday night? Before you were 21? Alright, before you were 19 with an older sister? You were watching.
You probably would have appreciated a head's-up from Seattlest when the Almost Live Reunion aired then. Oops. It aired on Monday. What we can do, however, is point you to the BitTorrent (or direct) for your downloading pleasure. We don't really like doing it, but in this case we have to make amends for completely ignoring the event before it aired.
