Let's Celebrate! 10 Years Since Real World Seattle

We remember 1998 rather well. We were living in Buffalo, NY, smoking a lot of the ganja, playing a lot of the folk music, and occasionally going to class to discuss contemporary literature. Good times. A year later, we would move to Portland and, eventually (by way of New York, New Orleans and Orlando), make our way to Seattle to live happily ever after.

We'd never really thought about Seattle much, but MTV's The Real World was filming there, and it was a pretty entertaining cast. There was the Bostonian fish tosser with the hot arms who hooked up with one of the producers. There was the cute gal with Lyme Disease. There was the bitchy closeted black guy who smacked her. And then there were four other people. We kind of imagined everyone in Seattle did things like toss fish and work for alt rock radio stations, and that it wasn't uncommon to live at the end of a pier. We've lived here more than four years now, and have never done any of those things, but whatever.

That was 10 years ago. Holy crap! It seems like yesterday when we actually voluntarily watched TV shows on MTV. But it has been a decade, and it seems almost worth celebrating. Ten years ago, this town looked really cool to this Seattlest as she bundled up in her oversized, incredibly cheap Buffalo apartment ($250/month).

But, how does one celebrate such a trivial thing? We're thinking of turning the heat off, buying some canned Labatt's Blue, picking up some crappyass blanket from a thrift store, and watching YouTube videos that show us where the cast members are today. Like this one (which we've watched twice now, and still don't understand):