Welcome to My World

I know what you're thinking, your pseudonym is Bare Witness, you must be some type of internet capable public nudity enthusiast. No. Like most sane people, I am afraid of my naked body and the dark esoteric places scattered about my person. This weblog is just a convenient way of detailing aspects of my life or thoughts in an unfiltered form without the hindrance of cupability, hence the Bare Witness, silly.

Let's start with the basics without giving too much away:

• I live in the city of Seattle, King County, Washington State, U.S.A. Seattle is a very interesting place to live. Not only did it elect one of the most left-leaning congressmen to the House of Representatives, but it is home (by way of Medina) to the richest geek in the world. Boeing and Microsoft are huge employers in the area, and hold a lot of political and financial weight in the city. Seattlites consider themselves quite a progressive and tolerant folk; the Capitol Hill neighborhood is the closest thing you are going to find to a Gay Mecca outside of San Francisco. The majority of people living here are college graduates (it's not uncommon to see phD's unemployed due to the glut of overeducated people) and according to a recent study Seattlites read the most books per capita than any other city. Everyone drinks cappacinos (there is at least one Starbucks, Seattle's Best or Tully's on every block downtown) and owns a dog. It's just weird like that.
• I live with two male roomates in their early twenties (like myself). One is a forgetful, inconsiderate slob that everyone thinks is the nicest guy in the world, he'd vote Republican if he had registered to vote, or knew that he had to register to vote. The other IS actually the nicest guy in the world, and as such gets trampled on by the first roommate, he always votes Democratic, is a public transit enthusiast, and is the quintessential Seattlite except that he is allergic to coffee; poor guy.
• Then there is me. I moved to the city to attend college here and decided stay, seeing as how my place of birth seems to promote alcoholism, tribal casinos, obesity and mental absenteeism over education, healthy living and the potential for a better tomorrow. I work in a place where I rub elbows with people a whole lot better looking and rich than I am and who I am constantly disgusted by, but the pay is decent enough to enable me to temporarily fulfill my fantasy of living the jet set lifestyle.

For the most part that's the backdrop for this tale of the city, stay tuned for further developments as I struggle with unthoughtful roommates, wacko liberals, high maintainence yuppies and the occassional hipster neighbor or cumbersome high school buddy. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, or better yet, the first day of this weBLOG. Stay with us, we'll talk, and maybe we just might become friends or hetero lifemates.

The sun is shining in beautiful Seattle, enjoy.