quirkiness

For more than 100 years, Carmel-by-the-Sea has had no street addresses because residents preferred the quirkiness of naming their homes.

“The Northwest has a certain quirkiness. We’re the people that invented socks and sandals and the obsession with Sasquatch,” he said.

“He was caring and funny, and in a way flawed, but people adored him for his quirkiness.”

But his punchlines emerge from anecdotes filled with details about curious characters he’s met, tales that have the quirkiness and surprise of what you find in a sensitively observed short story.

Just when you’re thinking that Seattle quirkiness is disappearing in our corporate digital takeover, there is the story of the rogue Rolf Neslund public sculpture in West Seattle.