This Megan – an admitted child of an upper class family who now of course made the voyage to zany and quirky North Brooklyn – applied for food stamps and got rejected. She basically wanted our tax dollars to pay for her Mast Bros chocolate bars, free range Lower Middle West Bushwick saffron infused rabbit meat, $8.00 hand-crafted pickles, cruelty-free water, and freshly Converse-stomped Williamsburg grape juice. Now at the same time, I believe there are thousands of other wastes of life that are unjustly receiving food stamps in this city while never looking for work, abusing drugs, etc. But that’s for another type of blog. I have no doubts that this Megan (who applied for food stamps yet owns an iPhone) can dial up Mummsy and Daddsy for any amount of money she needs but this was her chance to broadcast her urban food stamp application and rejection for a typical hipster LOOOOOOK AT MEEEEE moment. In the comments section of that article, all the comments are about defending her weight and the burden of student loans. I could give two shits about her weight. What drives me nuts is that UNIQUE short bangs, thick framed glasses, granny dress hipster look and knowing she is nowhere near needing to be on public assistance. Instead of taking any 9-5 job, she insists on slumming it in her hipster playground hoping to be a famous writer. How many fucking talentless nobody freelancers can this city withstand?
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“Cruelty-Free water”….HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Beautiful!
you beat me to that one. this is one funny dude
LOVE IT!
LOLOLLLLL
Seriously, does Mast Bros take food stamps?
LOLROF a very funny dude. I love the converse stomped grape juice.
“I feel like I deserve some answer from the universe”
I think you got it, sweetie.
She sickens me. In 1979, my mom was split from my dad and was putting herself through college. She qualified for food stamps. Yet when we went to Key Food on New Utrecht Avenue, we felt ASHAMED that we had to whip out food stamps even though Bensonhurst was no upper-middle class neighborhood by any means. It was a working-class neighborhood at the time. Hence, the embarrassment — because everyone else was working at their jobs and making enough money NOT to need welfare.
Now this single, college-eduacted, “creative” person wants the government to support her????
NO. NO. NO.
yeah, this is bogus. So many generations before fell on harder times with less resources. This girl doesn’t want to hack it..how about you give up your iphone? Maybe don’t go to college for multi-cultural, new-age, bohemian basket weaving?
And she writes: “I’m poor enough that I have to choose between food and toilet paper, but not poor enough for food stamps, apparently.”
If you eat less food, you’ll shit less and need less toilet paper. Win win.
Oh my. I just spewed my lemonade all over my computer screen. Kudos, lol!
Who let her out of the trailer park ?
She also writes: “I am going to take a really disturbing radical stance here and say that my poverty isn’t a result of poor choices.”
BULLSHIT. She chose to go into a field that pays squat. That’s why she’s poor.
Right. No where in her article was there any mention of improving her skill set. The reason she’s poor is that she has no skills that anyone wants to pay for. It’s that simple. She’s just useless. How about going out and maybe taking computer science 101 at a community college? Nope, she’d rather post on her fashion blog. Well, I guess there’s just not that much demand for mediocre writers with no technical skills. She just doesn’t have anything useful to offer the world, and can’t seem to understand that fact.
this is the result of everyone thinking they HAVE to go to college for another 4 years of what is essentially bullshit education (and i say that having gone myself. first one in my family actually so for me that was something… but im not whining that im not a gazillionaire because of it). i double majored in psychology and visual arts (probably not the smartest thing to do, but i like it, and it felt right at the time) but the last thing i’d do is complain like this bitch, and i complain a LOT about LOTS of things. my degree is not one of them tho. something tells me this chick NEVER got out of her LUG status (and i <3 my lesbians as im a gay man myself)… if you dont know what a LUG is look it up.
*rob*
Now I know what a LUG is…
thank you based rob
Yet, this canklesaurus chooses to live in one of the most expensive areas of the world. LEAVE.
Karmas a bitch. push out the minorities in neighborhoods that were affordable and now people such as yourself can’t afford the luxury lifestyle of iphones, organic foods, and complete un worked for bullshit. You shouldn’t get food stamps because at the end of the day there other people out there who needs it more than you. Go back home, its the only place that will save you unless you want to be homeless. Hipsters and yuppies your guys times of hardships is drawing near brace yourselves.
And home is going to be fun, seeing as how Mom and Dad have nearly bankrupted themselves so Canklesaurus Rex can stomp her way through the city. Dogfelcher Falls, Ohio is going to just full of former hipsters whining about how they can’t qualify for Social Security because they’re only 55, isn’t it?
Dogfelcher Falls, baa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa. I was literally on the floor convulsing for ten minutes repeating that, Dogfelcher Falls, Dogfelcher Falls, Dogfelcher Falls, here it goes again, baa, haa, haa, haa…. Let me try ‘Catfelcher Falls, Idaho’, ahahahaha, that works too.
So true bro. Yo im a doorman man in midtown and the building I work in is full of transplants especially female specimen. I had one tenant from maryland her mother helped her move in. her mother told me the rent for this tiny 1 bedroom is 2x more than her monthly mortgage for her mcmansion. Her daughter could not afford the rent eventually, she needed a roomate which didnt help, then she became a call girl escort, she spent most of het money on friends drinks cocaine and weed mostly kush. Her parents pull the plug on her apartment and the landlord kept the security drposit. Her parents were almost bankrupt because of her duaghter.
Plenty of jobs in South Dakota (unemployment rate 4.2%) and Texas (7.3%). But yeah just go ahead and move to the most expensive city in the country. YOU DESERVE IT!!!
Doesn’t look like she’s missing many meals. I’m POSITIVE that mom and dad do not let her starve. She’s just pissed off that she can’t afford $15 locallay-crafted-rooftop-cupcakes or $25 microbrews anymore and be seen in all the pretentious overpriced cafes.
Exactly. How does a fat person need food stamps? Eat less!!!!!
Oh, and another thing. Healthy adults can go about a month without eating, without any major damage to their health. Longer if you’re overweight. So, sorry, no, you just don’t have to eat every day. I was out of work once and went about a week without eating. (you do need to drink water daily.) After a couple days you don’t really feel hungry all the time, and I actually felt a lot healthier, losing weight and purging toxins from my body.
What the fuck are you on? I’ve been broke and living on soup once a day before, and I would not describe that as feeling healthy. There’s nothing healthy about starvation, you git.
The ‘purging toxins from my body’ pretty much explains it all, coo-coo.
So she works as a writer, but doesn’t make enough from writing to pay for food and rent. POOR BABY.
She’s unapologetic about being insanely in debt with student loans, having burned through her savings in order to live in Brooklyn, or making more from her quirky creative job than what would qualify her for food stamps, but she feels that she’s entitled to them because she’s entitled to eat. POOR BABY.
She’d rather starve and work her quirky creative job than get a real job and write on the side, the way so many real writers have to do. Even better, she has to make all of this public, letting us all know that it’s, like, SO UNFAIR that such a precious snowflake, with so much to contribute to literature and other important stuff, can’t be subsidized. After all, it’s our responsibility as members of a civilization to keep bottom-of-the-class English Lit majors from having to get employment that actually fits their job skills, such as scraping dead animals off highways or giving two-dollar blow jobs. Oh, and hinting that her dating life is nonexistent, so here’s hoping that some rich guy turns her into the subject of a journalistic Pretty Woman. POOR BABY.
I’ll admit, though, that I have sympathy, and I think we shuld all help her. Who wants to start a Kickstarter effort to get enough money so she can drink herself to death?
I’d also like to add that I’ve watched this sort of insane disconnect among “writers” for years. They always bitch about how little they make off their writing jobs, but they go into willfull denial on why that’s the case. Namely, places like New York are absolutely rotten with wannabe writers, and you literally can’t swing a cattle prod in some areas without hitting four or five of them at a time. Some writers get living wages or better, but that’s because they either have specific knowledge and expertise that’s not easily gained (and obsessive knowledge of Star Trek trivia doesn’t cut it), they can bring in readers based solely on their names, or they have a reputation for being fast, efficient, economical, and dependable. Those are all points you don’t get right away, so your typical 24-year-old is going to get the shit job with the shit pay at the local weekly newspaper. And why are they getting paid so little? It’s because the first one who stands up ahnd complains about the pay will get replaced by one of literally hundreds of wannabes willing and ready to give a power-suck rim job to the publisher for this “great opportunity”. The reason why things don’t change is because of Canklesteins like this one, who would rather wallow in poverty than risk the chance that she has a job that isn’t “cool” and “quirky”.
And that’s the state of affairs in journalism today, and that’s why so many papers and Web sites are back to paying nothing but promising “you’ll get lots of exposure!” Why the hell should they have to pay anything when you have people lined up around the block to work for free on the vague promise that some day, in the distant future, the venue will finally be profitable enough to hire on everyone full-time. I’m no longer amazed at the effort expended by the editors and publisher to make sure that these quirky little publications never get to that point.
AH ! Citizen journalists. Where would we be without them ? Caleb, Hayden, Zeke, Molly, Muffy please answer the call !
You’ve described in great detail why I have been severely disappointed and disenchanted with writers nowadays…
BTW, I thought this woman’s article was so garbage and mediocre.
We just saw the last veteran writer at our local weekly newspaper in Dallas get hired by the big daily, only about 20 years later than he expected. To his credit, he was hired because he’s now a font of information about Dallas history, particularly the history that gets glossed over by the Tourist Bureau. However, he only built up that knowledge because nobody gave a flying fuck about his obsessive comic book and Star Trek trivia knowledge. The turning point for him was when he started getting nicknamed “The James Lipton of fandom,” and apparently that was the point when his articles started being about something that actually fucking mattered.
Well, therein lies the problems with a lot of wannabe writers, especially the ones that whine about how unfair it is that society isn’t willing to support and subsidize them until they become bigshots. (And if they do, you can damn well bet that they suddenly go frothing rightwinger about how everyone else shouldn’t get the benefits they got.) I’ve watched far too many beginning writers (and artists, and musicians) get ruined by getting a subsidy too early. I agree with the whole idea behind the MacArthur Fellowship grants, because they only go to people who can already prove that they’re doing something important, and they have the discipline and drive to get things done when they get their grants. With far too many brats like this one, though, they sleep all day, party all night, and go to the typewriter or word processor only when they have no choice, and then have the nerve to look surprised when they discover that the money has run out, family and friends aren’t going to lend them any more money, and they have no good answer when employers ask “So…what DID you do for the last five years? Well, besides masturbating like a caged ape?”
You make great points. Keep in mind that being a halfway-decent writer is NOT that hard to pull off. For example, you and I write well — as do a lot of other commenters on diehipster.com. We call ALL be bloggers. And that’s exactly your point: so many people can write decent material — so no wonder why writing has become a low-income career (excpet in very specific ceicumstances, as you noted). Blogging does not take a ton of talent; therefore, the compensation is poor.
I made the mistake of posting a comment on the blog post. It lasted approximately 4 seconds before someone deleted it. Guess they didn’t want to hear how I, who work as an engineer because I made the choice to go to engineering school instead of “creative school”, I who come from a lower middle class immigrant family, I also eat Ramen cause I want to save money for my future instead of trying to steal money from taxpayers. Well, I guess that isn’t as interesting as her story.
same here. I wasn’t that harsh either. I just McDonalds is hiring. You will get paid, you will eat. to harsh I guess, taken down. I worked at McDonalds. They just seem to think you can pick whatever job you want and make a living at it just because that’s what you like to do. Doesn’t work that way. She might as well have wished for the bronze in womens gymnastics.
“wished for the bronze”
I see what you did there. And, it was brilliant.
this makes me sick. im sorry but one shouldnt get food stamps if they dont have hungry mouths to feed (and im not talking her own big ass maw) or are not disabled. it’s not THAT hard to live on rice and beans and there ARE food pantries around. something tells me she could stuff her face with that HIDEOUS vintage moomoo she is wearing in that pic that she probably bought just last week for 200 dollars at the brooklyn flea. i HATE these people!
*rob*
I didn’t even know a single person, with no dependents or disabilities, could get food stamps.
and im LOL’ing that her ELBOWS have cankles! nice CANKBOWS, megan!
*rob*
I write part time for my blog, AFTER I WORK!!!!!! lazy bastard…
http://thecaptainpower.blogspot.com/2012/04/best-way-to-check-if-you-are-fat.html
I just read an article that referenced another article (as they all seem to do on the interwebz ), indicating that less than 3% of all Williamsburg residents are anywhere near wealthy and that a great majority of hipsters are actually getting public assistance in some form. The weird part to me is…why, after 2008, did any of them think that staying in the city was a good fiscal decision? Hello Bushwhick…
Now they’re mad at NBC
http://www.salon.com/2011/04/12/brian_williams_hipster_attack/
Salon sees the teasing as ‘an attack’. They’re being attacked!! Defend them, quickly!
“Yah, cuz…iz just like being a minority based on skin color. We’re like…some famous black person back in the olden days that marched for peace or whatever.”
I can believe, because it’s so hard to imagine middle class anyone ( if they even exist anymore ) funding their spoiled brats at the most expensive colleges and the most expensive cities. Although…I did run across a blog once in 2008 written by a blogging hipster whose job it was to blog and they lamented, in several different posts, having to work ‘ALL DAY’ on Saturday and Sunday LOL Two days a week was a massive effort.
Some of these people just do not know how perilous things are. Our government wont’ use the word ‘austerity’ publically, but that’s what’s happening and it’s why Megan is being refused social services. She can go home. A homeless person without family, and people without family do exist, cannot. Austerity measures are usually one of the preceeding symptoms of a full on economic disaster *after* the initial economic disaster that led to it. The government knows this but they’re going to let society dial in slowly, every so slowly, so widespread panic does not ensue all at once and grocery stores get emptied for just about good.
These folks need to really start wrapping their minds around the realities a little faster than they have been and catch up with the rest of us. Their ability to remember where thrift stores are, grow food, and not shower will come in handy one day. The social assistance that so many hipsters seem to have been on for some time now ( the fakes lol ) and is drying up is not going to be given as easily to someone who’s 22 with a strong back as it is to someone with kids, disabled, or elderly. If the beta-males had any sense at all, they’d drop the high ideals and head for the nearest fracking or oil company or the military.
If they believed so much in making a difference artistically, they could do that just as well anywhere. Maybe even better where there’s LESS competition, not more. And maybe they wouldn’t require social assistance to get it done.
Maybe…but they’re so ill-prepared mentally for what’s probably actually facing the <40 crowd generation, that it's scary. They need to go visit some people in old folks homes and get the low down on just how tough a struggle some gen's face to be able to even make it to old age.
great post
*rob*
Here’s the Brian Williams rant. It’s PERFECT.
oh shit…i never knew Williams had it in him. respect
True story. Couldn’t be said better.
These people do not want to face reality, They want reality to conform to their wishes, no matter what it costs someone else and no matter who, other than they themselves, has to suffer to accomplish it. The whole Occupy crap was born of hipsters, their enablers and their sympathizers. News footage of the very first day provides the proof. Just take a look at the people who were parading into Lower Manhattan. It was the Bedford Avenue Welcome Wagon. It had nothing to do with the unemployed or economic injustice. It was about the “funemployed” and how quickly and easily they could dump their student loans and get back to blogging, and drinking fair trade coffee without the burden of paying for their stupidity.
If the loans were made with restrictions as to studies neither the banks nor the students would
be on the hook for as much as they are. Pre-med, engineering, pre-law, business and other useful studies : fine. Film theory, wiccan studies, lesbian herstory, rooftop gardening : no effin’
way.
Bedford Avenue Welcome Wagon, LMAOOOO!!
oh get the FUCK out of here. the picture of her fridge (has more food than mine, but that’s not the point.) the butter? “Earth Balance”. the pickles? i think those are pickles… CLEARLY artisinal, look at the fucking hand made sticker on it! THREE different kinds of fancy soft cheeses :-/ and then she complains about “the surly lady” in the food stamp office. id be surly as hell too if i saw you waddle into the office and apply for food stamps on my tax dollars (that lady WORKS a real job!) im not posting in this thread anymore, im too mad.
*rob*
She has an accountant. Big no on public assistance. Roger that good buddy.
She posts pics of a full pantry. Fuller than my own! Is that “ironic?”
” waaahhhhh ! I’m so hungry. I have no food! I need food stamps !! Waahhhh ! ”
“p.s. here are some pics of all my food. Kthxbai !”
The images of this “girl” make it clear that she is not exactly starving to death.
Maybe she needs to see a physician about her aversion to labor.
One Rx for “walk that fat ass around the block and get yourself a fuckin’ JOB”
Yeah I missed the accountant thing the first time. Guess what if you make less than $50k you can file your taxes for free online. Or a lot of churches have free tax filing services. Your tax return isn’t going to be that complicated if all you have is student loans and one or two W2′s. How she needs a fucking accountant is beyond me.
Because she thinks W2 is a bus line.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I had to leave my desk at work because I was laughing so hard at this.
I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for you now, Megan.
You can’t see it because it’s so small…it needs to be viewed with a microscope.
Better be an organic microscope….
i see what you did there….lol!
Wow. I just read this article and just stopped midway.
All I got to say to homegirl is…go cry me a river…then proceed to drown yourself in it.
Hipsters/transplanters will pay ANYTHING to live in Manhattan, even tho rents are at an all time high. Average price for a studio…. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. Neighborhoods like ….. SoHo, TriBeca and the West Village are the most expensive.
Vacany rates….. 1% !!!!!
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/159275/report–manhattan-rental-prices-soar-to-record-heights
Do these people really make/have that much money to live in Manhattan/Northwest Brooklyn?
quote:
Do these people really make/have that much money to live in Manhattan/Northwest Brooklyn?
the worst part is that they DON’T so they move into neighborhoods as close as possible to those and INSIST that the neighborhood change at their whims, you know, they HAVE to have a WholeFoods within walking distance, they HAVE to have a winebar, they HAVE to have a shop that sells 300 dollars hats and scarves cuz if not they are living like scavengers and in the ghetto!!! the GHETTO! so they demand it all it, the whole time raising rents to astronomical prices in neighborhoods where people are living comfortably being, well, just normal jobs… infesting neighborhoods where people are working class can scrape by… nope, it’s ALL about them!!!!! if every neighborhood in a 100 mile radius around them doesnt have EVERY SINGLE HIGH END AMMENITY THEY NEED then ALL is wrong with the world! then they complain when their 700 dollar a month apartment turns into a 2800 dollar studio. be careful what you wish for, these people never grew up learning that cuz they were taught just wish for the stars and anything you dream in life is YOURS! newsflash, life for 99% of the world is not like that, now there is an entire class of people infesting every city in this nation with that mentality and people are supposed to step back and cater to them? FUCK THEM. on one end of their droopy ass inbred mouth they are saying how they can’t stand the local people sellig fucking ices and ice cream in parks (wtf) and then on the other end complaining that their rents are being jacked up? idiots. ever heard of move to where you can afford to and not make waves cuz the second you make waves is the day you get priced out.
no, instead they will whine on a blog about how they need food stamps instead. at least her name is attached to it and there is no chance in hell anyway any landlord in nyc will ever rent to her broke ass after whining about “needing” food stamps with one google search.
*rob*
How long before hipsters try to move into Public Housing?
It would be so Ironic if they moved into the Breukelen Houses?
They’ll take over the corner store and will be out there on 105th street and Flatlands avenue selling Mast Bro’s Chocolate. Then they’ll turn the rooftops into bee gardens and urban farms.
They are probably on the waiting list and complaining that they have to wait for a vacancy when their need is so great.
This is what every hipster needs to hear:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKfOmGraHuQ?rel=0&w=420&h=315%5D
Here’s a good one also.
lol that website has tons of ditzy, Manic Pixie Dream Girl Megans writing attention-whoring bullshit information for the wannabe Carrie Bradshaws of this world.
and i read thru like 50 or so comments on that site, how is it possible that out of like 400 plus comments not a single comment is critizising her bullshit!??! is someone sitting there 24/7 deleting every comment the second it pops up? strange. every comment on that thread is another sob story of someone with student loans (hello i fucking have them too and dont make that much money for NYC moonface standards), but what is the point of that? holy editing comments much? that’s why i like it here so much. someone writes a comment defending their bullshit and then they get called out on it. it’s not deleted. you dont have to delete comments if you have anything worthy to really back up.
*rob*
You had to really look for some. Here’s an excerpt from a post made by “cmjf”:
“Stop victimizing yourself and grow up. Life is tough for a lot of people. Most people actually. But you seem to have no idea what real struggle is like. Its apparent in your blog that you do eat, drink and also loving life according to it. My tip to you is that you get an extra job, work harder and budget better. Also Maybe make a field trip back to the office that hands out food stamps sit there for a day and listen to the stories of people that actually need them.
I found this article very offensive and really hope that you wake up.
Too bad cause i thought your blog was kinda cool before. Now i have lost the respect.”
There are few, but like I said, you have to search high and low.
oh good, thank you for that, i was going thru the comments and felt like i was in some bizarro world with 400 people applauding her behavior. i mean she IS able-bodied (i guess) and if her only mouth to feed is her own i can’t see why she cant just go to some place where are starving kids (like REAL starving kids) and learn a bit about life (im sure she will be well fed on that little stint). dont people in her position go into the peace corp and stuff and not whine and complain about wanting food stamps? i dont get it. nevermind, people like her NEVER go into something like that, they’d rather just whine and blog about their plight. no wonder so many people hate us. it’s not hard for a person like her to feed herself if she has no one else to feed, how absurd. i bet she has 10 cats.
*rob*
People like her won’t go anywhere near the Peace Corps but will do their damndest to give you impression that they would. The peace corps attracts people who are truly idealistic and have strong convictions. I’ve yet to meet a hipster with any strong convictions.
I have a feeling this broad’s “plight” is just another way to satisfy her attention cravings.
I had a comment deleted on DH a few days ago.
You should keep reading- here’s my favorite
“its denia from brooklyn, a new york city local as you already know because we worked together. This article is really fucking annoying. if times are so tough why don’t you just move back home to your upper middle class family. I know your complaining about being “hungry” but how about people like me who lived in brooklyn there entire lives and because of people like you can no longer afford to live here. gentrification is a real thing and being raised in clinton hill(which was called bed-stuy when i was a kid) it has affected me and my family a lot. also have you ever met poor people in this city? like really poor people living in the fucking projects piss in their elevators baseball bats by their doors? the people who also receive food stamps, those motherf*ckers don’t have student loans cause those motherf*ckers cant afford college. they also don’t go out to brunch, buy sixpacks, have computers, or choose to just work one job. If you didn’t grow up poor there is no reason to be “poor” now. I grew up poor and if i had the choice to go somewhere where i would be taken care of or stay somewhere where Im starving I would go. You and I both know you can pick a second job to make ends meet if you would rather live this broke hipster lifestyle thats on you. and for the record i DO know caroline and one of the first things i overheard her talk about with another girl from from brooklyn bowl (Aslinn) was about how Aslinn will never move off tompkins(in bed-stuy) because the neighborhood just keeps getting better around her. That comment made me feel crazy listing to these two white broads talking about how there neighborhood just keeping getting better, getting better meaning less black people and more white people. you should have stopped this article where you started it you don’t deserve food stamps, you also don’t deserve to complain about shit. this articles a fucking joke.”
wow, great stuff – just shows how every real New Yorker just sees right through these pretenders. Can’t imagine too many things worse than hearing white upper middle class transplant Molly talking to Ohio Zooey about how their neighborhood is getting better. “Their neighborhood”, as if this fucking tampon could have survived 2 days in that neighborhood before their Sunny D occupation began.
As everyone else has accurately said already, this fucking pathetic Megan is playing ‘quirky, zany girl in the big city just trying to make it’. Playing being the operative word, as she could always go home to her upper middle class family. I hope the hipster beater introduces her whimsical mug to a locally crafted shovel.
My comment will probably be deleted as well, I posted “This is a disturbing article. Food stamps are for people in need. Seniors on a fixed income. Disabled people. Single parents. The working poor with children. Emphasis on *working*. I’m not sure whether Caroline’s part time blogging or whatever she does would qualify as “work”. Judging by those pictures, this woman does not fit the bill. There looks to be around $40 of cheese sitting in her fridge. Accountant? iphone? Come on with your fake poverty. You are fooling no one. just because you are living within your means and not living an extravagant lifestyle doesnt mean you are in poverty.”
Nope, it’s still there. Not sure how you’re not seeing it but there have been hundreds of negative comments on this article for days now. Even the ones the guy claimed were deleted were still there when I just looked a few minutes ago. Perhaps you guys need to refresh your cache or something because there are literally hundreds of “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” sort of posts on that article.
Yes, you have to choose “load more comments” at the bottom. In any case, why would a hipster delete comments and lose the attention they crave?
Fuck that bitch. Straight up.
Real transplants contribute to whatever city they move. I know a few in the 911 system who have some hipster degrees, but you know what? They became policemen(women), firefighters, medics, nurses and the like. It amazes me how much these quirky whimsy asshats think real life should be like elementary school. They think food stamps should be like their guaranteed snack time. Cookies and a juicebox. I purposely wear my uniform home from work to keep myself from absolutely going ape shit on these beardos.
yep. i hate when people whine about the degrees they CHOSE TO BUY. and yes i said BUY. for the most part, most people put something into the education money-wise via at the time or student loans. i cringe when i see people say it’s not FAIR that they cant find a job with their degree (and im so not being callous cuz i know it’s hard out there) but you have to be clueless to think paying 200K for a degree in some fields is not beyond stupid. now you want a bailout? and you are protesting bailouts of various systems that are trying to keep this country afloat?! (that’s not going to work in the long run, we are going to be just like our mother country,the UK, very soon). but suck it up little megan and josh, you are never going to write that great novel that will be a best seller, and since your music and your finger paintings suck just as much, just deal… or MAYBE get your fingernails a little more greased up in something you are not so comfortable in doing for a change and support your own damn self, something your grandparents probably knew all well about but your lazy ass parents didnt and told you that you were SO special and that ANYTHING you farted on turns into 24k gold. live, or don’t. but i think people are learning sooner rather than later who is worthy and who is worthless and all those 15th place out of 20 spelling bee trophies you “earned” in school dont mean much anymore. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. i want it i want it i want it. ::virtual slap::
*rob*
What a fucking whore.
Troma films needs to do a remake of Frankenhooker called Frankenhipster and and im sure we could raise the employment numbers up pretty good!! replace those bunions with some cankles, and i smell hollywood GOLD!
(good film btw…)
*rob*
PLEASE someone make frankenhipster, but NOT in an ironic way
*rob*
LOL@ “Frankenhipster”
But Frankenhooker was done by Frank Hennenlotter, not Lloyd Kaufman. Did Troma buy the rights or something?
honestly, i dont know, i always thought it was a troma film cuz i saw the trailer for frankenhooker in another troma film and thought they only had trailers for their own films. long time ago tho so im sure you are right.
*rob*
If she were a whore, the she wouldn’t be nearly as worthless as she is now. If she got her self a Craigslist or Backpage ad and sold her ass to desperate beardos, she would have no problem making ends meet.
Correction: * then she wouldn’t *
Did y’all see this reply to food stamp whiner? It’s awesome:
“its denia from brooklyn, a new york city local as you already know because we worked together. This article is really fucking annoying. if times are so tough why don’t you just move back home to your upper middle class family. I know your complaining about being “hungry” but how about people like me who lived in brooklyn there entire lives and because of people like you can no longer afford to live here. gentrification is a real thing and being raised in clinton hill(which was called bed-stuy when i was a kid) it has affected me and my family a lot. also have you ever met poor people in this city? like really poor people living in the fucking projects piss in their elevators baseball bats by their doors? the people who also receive food stamps, those motherf*ckers don’t have student loans cause those motherf*ckers cant afford college. they also don’t go out to brunch, buy sixpacks, have computers, or choose to just work one job. If you didn’t grow up poor there is no reason to be “poor” now. I grew up poor and if i had the choice to go somewhere where i would be taken care of or stay somewhere where Im starving I would go. You and I both know you can pick a second job to make ends meet if you would rather live this broke hipster lifestyle thats on you. and for the record i DO know caroline and one of the first things i overheard her talk about with another girl from from brooklyn bowl (Aslinn) was about how Aslinn will never move off tompkins(in bed-stuy) because the neighborhood just keeps getting better around her. That comment made me feel crazy listing to these two white broads talking about how there neighborhood just keeping getting better, getting better meaning less black people and more white people. you should have stopped this article where you started it you don’t deserve food stamps, you also don’t deserve to complain about shit. this articles a fucking joke.”
amazing. at least it will be saved here and not deleted.
*rob*
*applause*
Fuck xojane, hipsters, and hipster enablers!
Great minds think alive- I posted this before I saw your post. Did you see Megan responded to some of these posts?
I did see that she responded to some of the posts, but not that particular one, and I wish she had, because it’s so telling. Her neighborhood just keeps getting better and better, (because all the brown people are moving out)! Lord knows my fat white ass is trying to gentrify Elmhurst – I’m just waiting for all these Chinese people to move out. *snort* Etsy can open a pop-up store between the bubble tea shop and the grocery that sells pig uteruses (which I’ve probably eaten many times in this neighborhood and just not known it).
WHAT’S NEXT?! WHAT’S NEXT?! WHAT’S NEXT?!
Don’t EVER ask that question. We’ll find out…
While no one (save the truly evil) should go hungry in this great country of ours…
She could move back to Dogfelcher Falls, Ohio and her mommy would make her all the Rice Krispy treats she can shove in that hipster piehole of hers. Then she wouldn’t be hungry.
What’s amazing is they ALL think their finger painting and keytar are going to cause some kind of change. Fecal painting did not find find the cure for polio. The kazoolyphone did not come up with advanced combat operations strategy. I’m not one to bring about that kind of change, but I know I am the one of the people that carries out that change, just like many of you, no matter what field you are in. This is the first post in while that his enraged me! 10 bucks says you’ll find her in a Breukelen Bar on any given weekday afternoon discussing obscure retro Angolan action figures rather than getting 1, 2 or even 3 jobs. Meanwhile LaGuaridia CC is offering free EMT classes. Hmmmm.
Her fridge doesn’t look so bad. If her pantry is full of instant ramen, then she’s ok. Bet she doesn’t know how to shop around.
Anyway, here in San Francisco, hipster rag “The San Francisco Bay Guardian” has their own take on gentrification. It’s never the fault of the “creative class”. In fact, it must be the evil schemes of the one percent in their bid to defeat Occupy ______.
This week’s cover story is about the exodus of the “creative class” from San Francisco to Oakland. Blame goes to the city admins for “prioritizing the rich”,
http://www.sfbg.com/2012/04/10/flight-san-francisco
Part of the pull from Oakland seems to be what Brooklyn was to hipsters. It was “more real”, what with Oakland looking more “diverse” than San Francisco in recent years. (And I guess all the scary black people stopped looking so scary somehow…)
http://www.sfbg.com/2012/04/10/san-franciscos-loss
Oh, I guess the local Mission hipsters here in San Francisco saw this Oakland ad:
I live two blocks from The Bridge Inn…
This was a great video…
Oakland is not meant for hipsters…
They WILL pay the price WITH THEIR LIVES…hopefully…and not with daddy’s credit…
I have a degree, went to school…I’m not whining about my school loans coming down on me. Mommy and daddy didn’t co sign on my education or pay for it…I built my credit by living and working my ass off after high school, building my credit…eventually I didn’t need mommy and daddy’s money to get into school. I put the debt on my back and will be paying for it for the rest of my life…YOU PAY FIR YOUR EDUCATION IN AMERICA…What don’t these sniveling bastards not get about. I worked two jobs while in school, not taking money for living assistance…
It was really hard at some points, but not as hard as listening to some fucking kid who has everything paid for whine cause the got out of school and didn’t get the job they WANTED, do they choose to act as if the world is against them when they are just afraid to put food in they’re own mouths…
What can you expect from kids who still need to have food pre chewed before mommy sends it to them overnight express when they run it of their adult allowance…
I live and work in Oakland…It is my city. The violence has always kept the hipsters at bay from crossing the bridge from SF to the town. There is just more space over on this side of the bay and lower rents(comparatively). Now the rents are even essay to high for the hipster class in SF…so they are setting their sites on Oakland…
Hipsters are most def afraid of the locals of a darker persuasion, as I find many ride in packs to the locations they hold NO job at, as to avoid walking through the hood…and encounter real honest to goodness black/and brown folk…The hood is called ALL OF OAKLAND…
OAKLAND NEEDS GROCERY STORES…
NOT artisanal markets…Just grocery stores.
We don’t need Chloe to come knit scarves for stop signs and telephone poles so they don’t get cold at night…
FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCKS…
I hope the violence continues to rise…against these 30 something teeny bobs…that’s usually what keeps outsiders from coming into Oakland…
FUCK
Lol @ knitted scarves for stop signs.
Too bad so many Oakland natives have to pay the price first if the violence rises. Seems like the area near the MacArthur BART station is slowly gaining more hipsters. “Creative Class” indeed.
I love how she had to ” prominately display the ramen” then spend all afternoon into the nite writing and rewriting her thoughtpiece. Lmao!
Mad creative!
And seriously *rob* that frock aint shit! Not vintage or kitschy on purpose or anything but hideous, ungodly, downtrodden and unacceptable.
(I suppose thats what she feels her food stamps outfit should look like)
She probably bought the ramen for the photo shoot.
Later on the comments Cankelsaurus tries to defend herself= apparently she wasn’t getting the sympathy she thought she deserved. First she tries to defend her “poor” bona fides- later in the comments she gets indignant because people actually are QUESTIONING her. Note that she didn’t reply to any of the practical ideas to save money, like get rid of her I-products, or to get a job waiting tables or working as a tutor. Easier to whine that the taxpayers aren’t giving her free shit. Bitch!
“Hey you guys! I appreciate everyone’s stuff here, but I’d definitely like to clear the air on a couple of things.The food you see in the fridge is mine. By any means. We all have different incomes here and different items in varying fancyness.
2) I mention I’m a freelancer. This doesn’t mean only writing. This means on top of my other jobs that are part time or freelance. Also, writing.
3). Broadist doesn’t really discuss how or when anything was purchased unless it’s relevant to the context of the post. The things you see on the blog are an accumulation of the last 10 years of my life. I talk a lot about thrifting, because that is what I do the most often. I sell my clothes and trade for new ones. Anything “nice” that you see was purchased lonnngggg before the last 6 months of my life. Also, that Asos dress was a gift. And I wore it to my brother’s wedding.
I don’t talk much about how or when I accumulated the things I write about on Broadist because it’s not always relevant to the content. If a reader is interested in the cost, size, or when-I-got it I am ALWAYS happy to discuss that with them.
2) I mention I’m a freelancer. This doesn’t mean only writing. This means on top of my other jobs that are part time or freelance. Also, writing.
3). Broadist doesn’t really discuss how or when anything was purchased unless it’s relevant to the context of the post. The things you see on the blog are an accumulation of the last 10 years of my life. I talk a lot about thrifting, because that is what I do the most often. I sell my clothes and trade for new ones. Anything “nice” that you see was purchased lonnngggg before the last 6 months of my life. Also, that Asos dress was a gift. And I wore it to my brother’s wedding.
I don’t talk much about how or when I accumulated the things I write about on Broadist because it’s not always relevant to the content. If a reader is interested in the cost, size, or when-I-got it I am ALWAYS happy to discuss that with them.”
Like Asos fables or what
Like-Asos-fables-or-what
Someone needs to remind her she’s only 24. That’s 20 years younger than the average cankelsaurus lardus. At 24 she can get any job she wants. Hell, at 24, I washed dishes and mopped floors when my money ran out. I took jobs nobody else wanted and even saved up a bit from them.
Of course, I really did the work without complaining. She would probably work for 1 day and then write a book about her hardships of working as a waitress in New York City.
Shit, when I was 24 I was getting paid to shoot Commies…
You know, that’s a good idea. She could join the military, they eat 3 times a day and get free housing included. She’d have to slim down though…
I’ll say it – yes, I was on food stamps for a while last year. And that stupid little card helped out a lot. There’s nothing inherently wrong with people going on benefits – hunger is not a noble thing.
But this woman just annoys the hell out of me. I don’t know what’s more irritating – the whiny cluelessness (she has an accountant AND is trying to get food stamps?!?), the staged pictures, or the fact that she wrote a fucking blog post about this shit. I hope her parents have the decency to get her a sandwich and then crack her upside the head.
There is nothing wrong with you getting food stamps- congratulations for getting back on your feet. The difference to me is she blogs about how hard she has it and trolls for sympathy, while at the same time ignoring people’s good advice about what to do about her predicament.
Attention whoring, plain and simple.
I’m suprised she didnt ask her accountant for help aquiring her fraudulent food stamps.
I was in the same boat as you when I moved back to new York from Ohio. Had some issues to clear up before I could officially start working (unpaid tickets that issued warrants)
. So I went on public assistance to help my wife who was the only one working at the time. I was pretty ashamed using that card at times( especially in bodegas, who always had a problem with their machine). But I used it until I found a Job, that will hold me over, until I got my desired occupation. People told me, there is nothing wrong with welfare, because I truly needed the help. I always thought receiving public assistance meant you failed at life. My opinion is a little different now about using ebt,but why would anyone aspire to receive Welfare? It’s fucking welfare( food stamps, public assistance, ebt). No matter how you name it, it’s still welfare.
Applying for it was one of the most humiliating, but humbling, experiences in my life. That chick needs to get a clue. Once I started working, the last thing I cared about was when my monthly ebt refill going to post. People like to say, the economy is down, that why….., but retail is always hiring.
Here’s another tip:
Change your favorite color to “Rainbow” and head over to Cokestarter.
Ha! She should get some help from adult-baby rainbow lady.
CokeStarter!! excellent
I laugh at bitches like this, who grew up all stuck up and pretentious and now realize they have no talent or looks and that the future they imagined for themselves in college is a fucking PIPE DREAM and all that they have to look forward to is a life of disappointment and diminished expectations. I wish I could bump into her on the street so I could lead her on for the promise of a hot meal and then mock her openly. Not needed though because believe me she is well aware that she is an utter failure. Soon she will be priced out of her precious Brooklyn and have to move back home and will spin bullshit excuses as to why she left NYC and tell her friends Brooklyn isn’t as cool as it “used to be.” I feel sorry for whatever man winds up with this failure of a human being.
Now I know why young hipster dudes can’t get laid. All the young hottie Meghans go for the older Wall Street guys.
Look at this barely-legal specimen. (Warning: Amber Alert!)
http://www.xojane.com/sex/women-who-love-older-men
Which perhaps explains why the last time I dated a guy in his 20s, I was 15. My current partner is 39, which is honestly a bit young for me. I’m like a weirdly specific sexual predator, prowling for men within the 40-55 age demographic. (I’m pretending like 55 is my upper cap so you won’t think I’m gross.)
I bet the author of that article is on the shit-list of a lot of male hipsters. The same author wrote the article linked bedlow. The comments make it clear that the Meghans aren’t much different than other women, in that they still prefer men who meet or come close to the traditional ideal of masculinity. They less attractive Megs will settle for the noodle armed beardo. The more attractive ones (big fish, little pond) may do the same, but are always on the lookout for an upgrade.
http://www.xojane.com/relationships/whats-your-type
I wish Stevie Lam was still here. That responses to the article would ruin his year.
This is a preeeettty specific request (or not, if you happen to live in Boston), but I remain steadfast. A Boston blue collar bloke isn’t exactly what I’d call my “type,” but this is the fun of being saaaaangle: so much excitement and intrigue comes from sampling different varieties in Brogurtland. The more specific and specialized, the better. Let’s call these Novelty Types — consider them an escape from your normal dating preference.
Gee, and these women wonder why us men prefer jerking off to internet pr0n and why they can’t get decent husbands. Guess what toots? When your dried up pussy has been a 6 lane highway for everything with a dick for the last 30 years, we don’t want you anymore. Better apply for food stamps for your cats. You’ll need them.
Seriously, ever since Sex and the City, every “modern woman” seems to think that middle-aged sluts are some kind of new movement. Sorry toots, go to any Manhattan bar at happy hour and them cougars are just lining up to blow the young guy construction workers. It’s been going on long before you urban pioneers discovered Billyworld.
I was going to mention that- when they decide to “settle down” and find that hedge fund millionaire at 40, they find out that he is married to a tight young 25 year old that didn’t fuck half the guys in Billyburg. Fancy that.
Funny, I looked at their taste in men again and noticed something interesting. The red bearded Mast Brother type doesn’t appear anywhere.
Imagine moving to an artsy fartsy hood and having no interest in the artsy men there. Only hipsters could make that decision.
“The less attractive Megs”…. would make the smelliest wino look like Jessica Alba in a bikini.
Also “My Boston Boyfriend” = “My Asian Girlfriend”. Just another name for a fashion accessory.
Yeah, I was (in a rare moment of niceness) trying to go easy on them. It is true that the “boston boyfriend” is a fashion accesssory, but much to the dismay of the average “soft as tits”, male hipster (like Stevie), the fashion accessory gets more action than them. You mentioned the Asian girlfriend thing . . . I’m still laughing at those suckers who got taken for thousands in trustfund money by the “Grifter”, and the fact that many of them didn’t get so much as a handjob.
They’re not hurting hipster males any at all. Women over 30 are now are MUCH better off than they were in old school times and they like their men to be young, dumb, and you know what. The younger guys don’t demand that they slow their careers down to have kids, or quit entirely; they are ( by all reports ) much more active in general ( read: FUN ) and just biology alone dictates a greater sexual stamina; and they’re not intimidated by women with greater social and/or financial power than themselves. And if it doesn’t work out, big deal. Lots of relationships do not work out. Most of the older guys being targeted for their money by baby janes, will be dumped eventually too. I’ve actually known several chicks that have said,”Alls you have to do is laugh like he’s funny and be awed like he’s smart. Old desperate guys fall for that every time. They’re not going to know I have a boyfriend my own age on the side.” (Sheesh!) That’s just how some relationships go now, regardless of who’s older or younger.
I think a lot of it all, regardless of who’s the May or December or isn’t, is just a greater willingness for people to rationalize their most selfish and self-centered whims. Sorry, but no one who is 40 + years old, male or female, has much in common with someone who’s 22. They just don’t and that’s that. I’ve never understopod it. I get that youth is a beautiful package. But the older person always comes off as the more crippled of the two IMHO. I mean, how can you say you like somebody only to committ them to being your wet nurse? That’s deeply self-serving. Or, how in the world are you going to feel comftorable, truly comftorable, around their younger peers? It would be like being ordered to the childrens table at Thanksgiving for the rest of your life. Kids are cute, but that ain’t where I want to sit. I want to sit with the adults. On top of this, snagging somebody young is usually an old farts inability tragic and sad attempts to avoid dealing with their own fear about their own death. They see it coming and panic. That’s why grabbing at a kid is so inately wrong, because it’s not courageous or graceful, it’s like climbing on their life to save your own.
The younger person will be excused for being ignorant and inexperienced. At most they’ll be accused of being fiscally superficial. IOW, they’ll get compassion whereas the oldster will, at best, be thought of as pathetic because it doesn’t take any real special ‘skill’ to throw money around. Five year olds can do that LOL
The beta males and females have picked the wrong places to mature IMHO and the other scary part is how many of them will shave the beards or lose the sundresses, and get into politics and become a thousand times more vicious and crooked and hypocritical than what we’ve ever seen. More ‘Logan’s Run’ than ‘Cocoon’ to be sure.
“It’s Tuesday!” lol
Emily is almost 30, FYI.
she looks older than 30 though.
That was my whole point for saying “Amber Alert”. She’s well north of 35 and 40′s not far off. If she’s over 35, who the fuck cares who she’s sleeping with? If she was 18 with a 55yo boyfriend, I’d worry but at 38 SO FUCKING WHAT???
I’m a Democrat, a political leftie and a trade unionist and I believe in a safety net, but this shit makes me sick.
As far as I can tell, she wants to use my tax dollars to buy groceries so she can afford to have brunch with her friends on weekends. Networking dontcha know. Gotta network to make it in the “creative” field.
The old school leftists had a word for these people: parasite.
Get a fucking job, you annoying art-yuppie.
If you want to read the original Hipster Manifesto, read Atlas Shrugged (or anything by Ayn Rand).
Lets see:
Ordinary people = Parasites.
Selfishness will save the World.
Living off other people while pretending to be self-sufficient (I’ve yet to meet an Objectivist who doesn’t live off somebody else)
Substitute John Galt’s invention for Mast Bros. chocolate factory.
Moving to Billyworld and blogging about organics = Moving to someplace in the mountains and practicing Lazziez Faire Capitalism.
I’m sure I can come up with more examples.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! This made my d
ay.
Both hipsters and objectivists are largely wankers. The fact that they hate each other yet have common traits makes this insight hilarious.
I still wonder if het article is some kind of hoax that is making fun of hipsters. If it isn’t, then I am instantly drawn to the pictures of her “pathetic” fridge and pantry because they are filled with organic, semi-expensive stuff. Organic yogurt—check, Ezekiel bread—check, earth balance spread —check… SERIOUSLY!?
I was wondering the same thing. My spouse read it & swore it was satire.
Perhaps. But it’s just as possible that this idiot chick thinks that she is ENTITLED to eat $5/loaf Ezekiel bread because Wonder Bread is garbage. But the fact is that she is fat and should just lay off the bread.
NEWS FLASH: Food stamps are NOT participation award certificates for playing the game of life. STFU, bitch!
She chose to eat instead of buying toilet paper but also chose to live in Hipsterville with Farsworth and Bartholomule instead of living good with the folks back home.I hope she slips on a banana peal and lands in the bed of a truck heading back to her part of the world
Read her blog,she is out doing something “coool” every night of the week,especially eating good.She is constantly at restaurants and bars…what a cunthole
Fuck her (if you dare) ! But how will the poor thing be able to pay for her locally hand crafted artisinal Empire brand mayonnaise at $6 to $8 a jar on Vanderbilt Avenue (see today’s Daily News) without public assistance ? Should she defile herself with Hellman’s or , dog help her, Miracle Whip? Besides, Empire’s handsome hipster devil entrepreneur looks like he might curate a little bit of himself into each and every jar. Would you deny a girl this simple pleasure? Would she not give you her bacon cupcakes with creme filling infused with her own breast milk? Have a heart people !
I made $7 an hour in my first “gig” right out of college – reporter and photographer for a weekly newspaper, wrote 25-30 stories each week and chased firetrucks and ambulances to go take wreck photos. 60 hours a week, one day off. Standing in the rain, interviewing farmers. Ate ramen, deferred my loans (but paid the freakin’ interest). I left my hometown for this job but not on some “creative” quest – I wanted job experience as a writer! Writing about real people and issues that affected that community. Not some “down and out” self-inflicted poverty trip. It was the only “real” way to gain experience. Now 15+ years later, after numerous jobs in cubicle hell, I have the experience and skill that finally landed me a corporate copywriting gig that pays real well. Now this drip complains while writing for a half-ass blog, in a style that is so pretentious and about worthless subjects. Hate to pull the Gen X thing, but I went into the job market during another damn recession in the early 90′s and didn’t bitch this much. Get a fucking life already!
BINGO.
I don’t know if any of you guys ever watched the UK TV series “Spaced”, but all but one episode of the series are favorites with hipsters. That one episode features our main character, Daisy, being told that she either gets a job or she gets cut off the dole. After getting fired from several, and going out of her way to be fired (such as directly telling customers at a bar “Fuck you”), she’s given one last chance by working in the kitchen at a restaurant. She rebels, not because the kitchen manager is an insane control freak, but because she doesn’t feel that she belongs there. “I’m creative. I have things to say. I’m being cooped up here, and I don’t deserve it.”
The punchline, and the reasons why so many hipsters hate that episode, is that the manager demonstrates to Daisy that everybody there is “creative. One guy has several books out. Another is working on a screenplay. The crazy guy in the dishroom has a new collection of poetry coming out. Daisy’s big plan at revolution falls apart when she learns that everyone else is just like her, but they buck down and get the work done, and then go home and create.
With Canklestein here, I want to ask her if she’s seen this episode. Probably not, and she probably gets butthurt over “Nathan Barley”, too.
Let this bitch sell her body on Pennsylvania Ave. instead of mooching off the government. It’s the perfect job for her – no brain needed and walking the street will burn off all that fat. She will quickly learn the value of a dollar.
Won’t work. Obama has better taste in women than Clinton.
Pennsylvania Ave. in Brooklyn is a well-known spot for ghetto prostitutes to congregate. The perfect destination for this greedy whore to get to know a whole other side of Brooklyn.
Ummmmmmm……check it out you shithead mooch bitch….if you can’t afford to live in NYC….
MOVE!!! GET THE FUCK OUTTA HEREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Why leech of the state? You moved here to be a grub and collect food stamps??? Waitress like every other struggling artist or writer did for the past century!
Everyone basically nailed it spot on, but I just wanted to add that LOL
This is what all those flyover transplant “creative types” fear the most: REALITY. So far they’ve been able to afford the 6-figure private liberal arts college tuition with student loans, $3000 rent for a closet in the most expensive city, $300 vintage granny dresses, artisinal pickles, kickball tournaments, toxic quriky arty rooftop parties with craft beers, Macbook Pros, iPhones and $30 scrambled eggs because SOMEONE ELSE WAS PAYING FOR IT. i.e. their parents. All that vile Masturbation Bros. chocolate wasn’t so expensive when mom and dad were sending the monthly allowance checks, was it?
Now it’s her turn for the rude awakening. This is the oh-shit moment. This is when all the blogging about crying in the streets starts. The “you’re not a ‘New Yorker’ until you’ve cried in the street and didn’t care if anyone sees you” type of shit. I hope this happens to more and more of them.
That fridge is way fuller than mine ever is. 2 dozen eggs? Artisinal pickles and cheeses? “Local” honey? I’ll bet that rooftop local honey cost about $20 at the Smorgasburg, or the Fakelyn Grange in Queens. Megan, PLEASE, go back to your upper middle class parents. You’re the people who’ve done the damage here with your smug gentrification, and now YOU want public assistance? HELL NO. GTFOH.
BTW, there are soup kitchens around if she’s that hungry. But they’re probably not artisinal enough for her, and she’d have to mingle with people who are really hungry and really homeless. You know, the people who aren’t wearing the $300 overpriced vintage granny dresses and yapping away on iPhones about their $30 scrambled eggs at Egg. Oh the HORROR!
Back to Cul-De-Sac-Ville in 3…2…1…
I wonder if she’s whining because daddy lost his job at the meatpacking plant and mommy wasn’t able to hack it as a stockbroker in Iowa, so the checks stopped. Oh wait, that’s Occupy. I know – Occupt the Welfare Office! Gotta post that quick…
I looked at that broad’s fridge and laughed. I’m living on a fraction of what I was used to since I’ve left the service and went back to school for a career change. She needs to do what I do in order save money on food: Shop at Aldi’s!
You may want to go back and read those comments. Out of 550 or so comments, about 425 of them are crucifying her for being a pain in the ass spoiled brat who doesn’t “deserve” shit. And rightfully so.
Looks like Dr. Tina from Bachelor Party.
I just watched that last weekend…I LOL’ed!
Butthurt Entitlement Overload.
I made three comments and they were all deleted in less than five minutes afterwords…
all I alluded to was that she should try finding another job to supplement her lollygagging…
this was cryptonite.
I saw that. That means the previous posts which either criticized her or tore her a new one, are getting to her.
Another fucking leech trying to suck the public tit. Get a real job.
These hipsters can’t seem to get enough… now they’re invading the church! WHY?!!!
http://hipsterchristianity.com/anatomy.php
“…One of the most common types of Christian hipsters, the Artistic Searcher is the person whose deep spirituality manifests itself in the dark room and on GarageBand. They are poets, painters, writers, musicians, designers and creators who see themselves as image bearers of the Creator and thus charged with the task of incarnationally concocting and enjoying culture.”
This is just… really.. I can’t even… x_____X
This is full of shit if you ask me. Christianity is Christianity form of fashion is not included, or any of that Bullshit theyre talking about. Next thing you know it they want to make a Hipster Islam culture.
Hipster Islam? lol not a chance. Iran is currently in the process of summarily disposing of hipsters in the dead of night.
Plus, the last thing Islam needs is beardos who smell worse than the Taliban.
(I just posted the following on her page. Let’s see how long this stays up for)
I don’t understand this. Carrie Bradshaw came to New York City, writes a weekly column for a magazine and lives in a rent-controlled apartment on the Upper East Side. Why can’t you do the same. If Carrie can do it, you can do it too. Don’t give up hope honey.
Carrie writes about the most important things in her life, like men, men and men. You also write about men, men and men so you should be rolling in dough by now. How many pairs of Manolos have you bought in the last week? You must be doing something wrong if you’re not.
Here’s a suggestion, make a list of all the fruits and vegetables you stuck in your twat in the last week. You know, the ones you need the food stamps for. I know the list must be long but write it all down and publish it in an article. Girls everywhere will read it and follow your advice, xoJane will make millions and you’ll get a promotion. Hell, you’ll even be able to eat organic breast-milk cupcakes again.
Hang in there honey. Don’t give up. Mister Big is just waiting for you down in Wall Street somewhere. If you give up now, you’ll never find him and you’ll end up married to the Mast Brothers instead. Don’t let that happen.
If she is only paying 600 a month in rent she must be living in a gross apartment with about 6 roommates. This chick is a pompous, arrogant twit. Go home to your parents house in Connecticut or Vermont or wherever.
Without exaggeration, she could unquestionably survive off her own body fat for well over a month. Tap water’s still free most places, isn’t it?
Here’s a list of just some of the other articles on that site. Gee, I wonder how she doesn’t have any saleable skills with such profound writing.
I Lie to My Gynecologist
Your Help Needed: How Do I Make Friends and Learn to Be a Good Friend as an Adult?
The Body Mass Index is Pointless Unscientific Garbage
It Happened To Me: I Dated a Republican (But That’s Not Why We Broke Up)
It Happened to Me: I Gave Happy Endings
I’m Up In Your Instagram, Ruinin’ It
Most Guys Really Like Their Girlfriends
It Happened To Me: I Was Gay-Bashed In a Brothel
7 Months Til My Wedding: Suck My (Vera) Wang
FIND IT FRIDAY: “The Glamourpuss Version of Pants and Flats” For Our Resident New Mom
DRINKING AT THE OFFICE: Pharrell Williams Edition!
I Got Busted at Work for Writing About Sex on the Internet
ASK A GYNECOLOGIST: “Should I Put This In My Vagina?”
Hipsterminator, none of those articles was written by Food Stamp Girl. The xoJane site has many different contributors.
Is that you Edd?
i need not run into this broad in bk… seriously.
Best comment there:
“The fact that you can even admit in public that you shop (or did until recently) at Trader Joe’s and had organic ketchup and not even hear how ridiculous you sound speaks volumes about how tone deaf and entitlement-minded you are. It was stunning to sit here and read it and realize this was not a satire piece.”
Ha.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Get a kick out of all the Mast Bros-bashing here. It’s only a matter of time before Googling their name will draw traffic to the haterade on this site instead of to those pseudo-Pennsylvania Dutch douches…
Sent her a message under the title ”LOVE YOUR BLOG”
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Not at all. I just knew an attention starved hipster cunt like you would gravitate immediately toward a title like that.
I saw your pathetic, rage inducing whinge about how you were rejected for food stamps. You seriously deserve a savage beating for that.
Maybe you’d have enough money if you didn’t spend your money on granny dresses and other ”quirky” items from Urban Outfitters, Forever 21 and American Apparel.
Maybe you’d have enough money if you didn’t spend your money going to shitty indie rock shows.
Maybe you’d have enough money if you chose a college course that actually had a fucking point to it.
Maybe you’d have enough money if you stopped writing self-absorbed ”blogs” about how much you love how fat you are and went out and got an actual job.
Fuck you and your ilk. Seriously.”
Seriously. She probably thinks she “made it” because of the thousands of people now shitting on her.
Hey you guys, don’t be so hard on her. Look how starving she really is with her Jabba The Hut fashion line.
http://www.broadist.com/
I wrote an article for xoJane. Actually, I write a lot of things besides Broadist. ALL WRITING GIGS WELCOME. Please & thank you.
Editor’s note: In the article I wrote for xoJane, there have been a lot of comments questioning the integrity of, well, everything.
For the same reason the anon ask box feature isn’t enabled here, I am not going to get too deep into comments. But, I will mention the cliff notes big point of the article about the “obligation to justify.” No one but myself and maybe a few close friends/family know how or when I’ve accumulated the clothes and makeup and social life and whatever it is that you see on Broadist. How I acquired the last 10 years of wardrobe isn’t exactly public knowledge. Yeah, I can write about having a shirt – but odds are I got that shirt in a specific context. Like, I traded it at a thrift store. Or I swapped it with a friend. Or I purchased it on sale. Or I bought it full price a long time ago. Also, my social life is mostly free because of my line of work.
Broadist isn’t always about these details. It never was and I don’t imagine it will be. If anything it’s a space for me to share stories and tips and cool broads and talk about body issues and flex my personal narrative muscles on a daily basis. I wrote long before this blog existed and I’ll continue to write long after.
(Source: broadist.com)
I just went to that link and looked at the photos of people’s style she admires. That how a lot of HIGH SCHOOL kids in the 80′s looked when we were tying to look cool.
I know the type: doting upon 45-year-old poseurs who can claim they were THERE through all of the Eighties. They’ll believe any amount of bullshit spewed by that little shut-in who swears that he was one of the big shots at CBGB’s, because everyone who was there is too busy having a real life to contradict him. “Ooh, you actually met Adam Ant backstage and then beat the hell out of him? Can I suck your dick?”
that fat farm face doesn’t need food stamps–she needs a good kick in the ass!
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
TWITTER BOMB THIS WHORE @SHADOOD
I don’t feel bad for her, she talks in the article about how she let her savings account dwindle from going out to bars and brunch. Food stamps are meant for people that would have to choose between toilet paper and food. This girl needs to get a second job if she can’t support herself. If you don’t have kids you don’t have to worry about daycare and can work as much as you want.
As a native I always love to hear these stories as if they would evoke some kind of feeling of pity but they don’t. If you can’t be resourceful enough to make it here they get the fuck out because this city is way overcrowded as it is, people like her are the reason why houses get thorn down and expensive condo’s go up. The only comfort I get with hipsters lurking about is the fact that I don’t feel the least bit scared walking around in neighborhoods that used to be rough as hell back in the day.
Hey! I know this is kinda off topic however I’d figured I’d ask.
Would you be interested in trading links or maybe guest writing a blog
article or vice-versa? My website goes over a lot of the same
subjects as yours and I think we could greatly benefit from each other.
If you’re interested feel free to shoot me an e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you! Awesome blog by the way!