New Year, New Site At New Seattle Weekly

When all of the bubbly started wearing off on the first morning of 2006 we exited the bed, scaldeded off some of the dirt and defeat of 2005 in the shower and sat down with the first pot of coffee of the new year to crack open the laptop and see if the internet was still as we'd left it. Oh All That Is Holy, what bizzaro world have we awoken to?!? The Seattle Weekly's website is no longer terrible! Quickly we ran to the window - The sky was not blood red. We shook our fiancee awake - She didn't greet us with the voice of a 65-year-old blues man. We looked in the mirror - Admittedly it was a little rough, but there were no extra ears, digits or nipples to great us. Peaking through the cracks in our fingers we once again laid eyes on www.SeattleWeekly.com...

Yes, we're sure of it: The thing is navigable. The colors are not garish. The writing is... The colors are not garish!

While you're over there taking it all in make sure to spend a few minutes with their most popular stories of 2005. We were most interested in #6: Gates Foundation Ruins Education (actual title may vary). We're not quite sure why we missed this story when it was published in July. Must have been on vacay or something because this is a news item we've been tracking and even hashed out a few long-winded and emotional rants before trashing them and ignoring the subject. Nice piece, anyway, although their story of the year is probably the KEXP thing they ran a few weeks ago, which does bring up a shortcoming of their website that still needs to be addressed: Their KEXP piece got readers talking, but since there's nowhere for readers to talk on the Weekly's site they started doing it over at the other weekly which is now positioned to print a few short KEXP interviews and claim the article in their own Best of 2006 list. Still, baby steps. Check out the Wayback Machine to see what the Seattle Weekly site used to look like.