Recycled in Seattle

Now that we've been irrelevant for almost a decade (it's arguable that we've never been relevant) I expect more peeps to attempt to assign their segment of Gen X history as being the most important. Although it is difficult to deny Seattle-ites their cultural significance on our generation.

Then, in the early '90s, Seattle spawned a duo of mega-celebrities--Kurt Cobain and Ken Griffey, Jr.--who upgraded our national image from "geographically isolated airplane production facility with a trash fetish" to "epicenter of Generation X culture." Cobain, who created the Gen X sound, committed suicide in 1994. Griffey, the first Gen X superstar athlete, is back. After a roller-coaster negotiation process, and some soul-searching about whether he needed to live close to his teenage kids, Griffey agreed to a one-year contract with the Mariners reportedly worth about $2 million.