When you drive into Aberdeen, the welcome sign says "Come As You Are", which is pretty queasifying.

Aberdeen is a sad town. Let them have their moment in the sun as this town is often full of gray clouds. I feel sorry for them..

This is one of the saddest quotes, I have ever read, it came from Wal Mart Employee Barbara Jeter ( no relation Derek).

"Lee Marvin used to come here"

I propose Aberdeen's welcome sign be changed to "Aberdeen, after all, you have to live somewhere"

According to IMDB, I was in 103 films and TV shows.

I thought you were dead?

Dont get me wrong, I liked you in "Hard Times" with Charles Bronson.

Lee! You're back! Sing "Wandering Star" from "Paint Your Wagon" for us, one more time!

Hey, don't laugh - Aberdeen may have the only affordable homes in the region. I predict a new bohemian revolution coming to Aberdeen any day now.

I wish. Abderdeen has some beautiful old homes and you can get into them for under $150k, AND you're by the ocean, but then there's all the meth. So, so much meth.

The weirdest part about the whole "Tom Cruise going to Aberdeen for a day" thing is that one of his comments was "I'm surprised by how beautiful it is here" This is mystifying to me because while I aknowledge that Cruise isn't the keenest guy, I grew up in Westport outside of Aberdeen and while it does have a kind of haunting industrial intrigue about it, Aberdeen is one of the ugliest most depressing places I've ever been, the pinacle of that being the South Shore mall. What on earth was Cruise expecting?

Aberdeen cool because its on the way to Ocean shores, highway 101 south is also a great drive during the summer.
Towns like these have some real people..and don't be dissin em. These places do send their kids to Universities in the state rather than the city. People who graduate high school in king county go outside of the state.

Aberdeen's also interesting because it was the largest center of prostitution and whorehouses in the State of Washington, up until the end of World War II. I had a great-uncle who used to make a fair chunk of change while he was in high school by renting his coat out to sailors in uniform. I guess they weren't allowed to go into the whorehouses while in uniform?

Also, on Armistice Day, way back in 1918, all the whorehouses burned effigied of the Kaiser outside their windows.

Aberdeen is many things, cool is not one of them,

If I lived in Aberdeen, I would hang myself.

Ugh, it was bad enough just having to go there for high school football games...

Cruise saying that Aberdeen is beautiful may have been tongue-in-cheek (a situation which I understand he may be fond of) or he might have just been disingenuous. Tom Cruise, disingenuous? Nah!

Pablo,
Most places have some real people, if by real people you mean depressed out-of-work alchoholics. Ocean Shores can suck my balls Westport could kick Ocean Shores ass in any sort of competition.

Did anyone catch KING5's Raw streaming video of the event? The filming crew was there As Cruise was squatting to sign autographs, they filmed his ass up close and a woman videographer was commenting about his "plumber's butt". I wrote to the news director and they are repremanding the crew who showed that "crack and comment". So much for professionalism....

Licoln city and Newport are pretty nice too. Much better than Ocean shores. All summer parties on the Beach, bring a keg and light up the fire on the beach. Going down 101 south again this summer with my woman and yes we will stop by Aberdeen and have a bite to eat and drink with the local yocals. They aren't as zombified as Seattle. Just like New Yorkers they tend to be a little more real and upfront, and if you are not an inhibited person you can talk to them. They are not Aliens.
Seattle for being a dense multicultural town, it seems to always be in a state of perpetual culture shock. Freaks freaking out about other freaks. Alas,though,people don't get out of the city much so they dont see how people outside of the hustle and bustle of Big City life are a bit more down to earth.