Gawker Thinks We're Annoying Weirdos

Promotional Brochure, 1976 from the Seattle Municipal Archives from the Seattlest Flickr pool. Updated by Hanna Brooks Olsen to more accurately reflect the city of Seattle.

According to the Gawk, we're actually pretty close to the top of the "50 Worst States" list, which is cool. They even ranked us above Oregon, which is typical. About us, they said:

Starbucks launched its great global coffee takeover from Washington. Seattle has been scientifically proven to be one of America's most annoying cities. It rains all the time. Spokane is a weird place. Did we mention it rains all the time? It rains all the time. And, again, it should be reiterated that Seattle is a very annoying place.

Yes, Gawker. Well done. You've done what you do best: read what other people have said and re-write it. And you know what? It's all true.

We are the home town of a multi-billion dollar industry that has changed how the Western world views coffee. And we do love grunge and Jimi Hendrix so much, we have a whole museum basically dedicated to them, which thousands of people come to see every year because they love them, too.

And that museum? It's funded by a bazillionaire who was a pioneer in the software industry. Oh, you don't know who we're talking about? Let me Google that for you, on the search engine that also lives here.

And we do dress strangely at times because yes, it does rain all the goddamn time, and strutting around in the kind of shit that the Sartorialist photographs would be downright silly.

But while the rest of the nation was cooking from the inside out in their chic pizza ovens they call "walk-ups" (which we don't have here in Seattle, because we have elevators), we were chilling on the West Coast, enjoying some emotional hip-hop, craft beers and a balmy 70 degree summer. And when you all were up to your eyeballs in snow, we were cheerily gallivanting in the streets in our adorable 6 inches.

Yup, our gorgeous views, decent air quality, general level of tolerance, business success, eclectic music taste and mild weather do make us pretty weird. An accurate assessment all around.

And so, we welcome Gawker to join the likes of GQ, Parenting Magazine, Vogue and the New Yorker in the Seattle Stereotyping Hall of Shame.

Congrats, Gawker. You're in good company.