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A place for real New Yorkers to vent about the invasion of attention starved, useless adults that we know as hipsters.
Opie & Anthony on hipsters and Jimmy Norton call it like it is.
Jim Norton nails it: “fake embrace of nerd culture – they’re frauds”.
Norton always gets it ; )
Finally got around to listening to this. I totally agree with what makes hipsters rub me the wrong way also is why these guys hate them. That and their attention whoring like the No-Pants Subway days. I can’t understand how this makes me a “bigot”.
“Like, Yah!” “We are a Brooklyn based urban band and we are down with Mexicans”
That fucking subway video of that PlaySkool instrument band (which I think I posted once?) drives me fucking crazy. Crazy like I want to throw their instruments onto the tracks and also crazy embarrassed for them.
Anyone who plays a fucking xylophone in a NYC subway station needs an extra large helping of beating. TWO SCOOPS!
Just them. Not their instruments. Donate them to a school, where they’ll be put to better use.
Mexicans don’t play goddamned banjos, goddamnit!!! Fuck these clowns!
There’s snow on the ground, so it must be hipster season. GET ME MY GUN!
Wow! A band where the male band members DON’T GET LAID!!!!
I only survived two minutes of that fucking video.Makes we want to crack skulls!
Like yah, I’m in love with all of this. WTF! What the hell kind of instrument is Molly McCankles playing?
Interesting that those apples are the Red Delicious variety are from Shop-Rite or P&C in the first video and not from one of their shitty organic co-opts. Keep in mind the USDA has five grades of apples to help growers and retailers price them.
51.300 U.S. Extra Fancy.
51.301 U.S. Fancy.
51.302 U.S. No. 1.
51.303 U.S. Utility.
51.304 Combination grades.
Considering how perfect it looks (Extra Fancy) it would have to be sprayed with bucket loads of pesticides to keep apple scab, rust, moth and fly larvae from turning into the lower grades (still perfectly edible). Maybe I’m the only one but see someone use a tasteless piece of shit like a Red Delicious as metaphor (or in their minds that’s what an apple is supposed to look like) it guarantees they never been to an Orchard or likely from the burbs. Red Delicious are the Sunny D of apple varieties.
Better still is watching those strength-less pasty hands struggle to pack the snow around fruit. It shows they have never done anything physical in lives other then push buttons on a gizmo.
Not to mention most real working class folks and anyone else not parentally funded and ivy league school educated can’t afford to even think about which apples are superior to other apples and why. It’s called working 80+ hours a week and hoping to have the reserve energy to take the kids to the park on the weekend for some family time LOL
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkEDE_zuT0&w=560&h=315%5D
There’s no money receptacle like normal subway station buskers. I assume because the main objective of the band is to be seen and heard, as well as to “bring the culture”. Obviously they had someone follow and film them. I think there’s worse hipster music out there, but the best part of this vid is at 2:27 when NYPD transit shows up to move them from the platform they are blocking. (I knew that had to happen at some point.)
where the fuck are the cops when you need them? thank god i don’t have to use that station–i’m disabled & i would probably get pushed onto the tracks. the group sounds like the shit i heard from going to my kids school shows ( actually these motherfuckers are worse!).
“bring the culture”…because nobody brings culture like dumpy hipster canklesaurus chicks and pasty beardo fishing rod shaped guys in skinny girl jeans playing toy instruments like preschoolers, singing songs that sound like nursery rhymes. Oh yes, we’re all so lacking in that “culture”.
ROFLMAO!!!
Anyone else notice how a harmonium sounds like a bagpipe with a really bad cold? God, that thing is annoying!
REALLY REALLY CHEERFUL ALL THE FUCKING TIME
Good God, what horrible shit !
WTF is withe the watering can? Only on Bedford Avenue. So, a solution. From my office, I can see a pier in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tied to one end of that Pier is a ship that makes concrete. On that pier is thousands of tons of sand and aggregate. Every day you see real men making concrete. Hundreds of trucks a day. I’m sure you have seen them (they killed an asshole cylicst at he Manhattan side of the Williamsburg bridge last year, silly cyclist rang his little bell while running the light and the truck crushed his little head. They are Orange, and white and silver. The concrete is made every day, loaded on the mixers, trucked across the Williamsburg bridge and poured into the Freedom Tower. Quite an operation. Anyway, my proposal? One day, those hundreds of trucks of concrete should just fill the Bedford Ave L train station. Just fill it with concrete. The whole thing. Just keep poring it in. Fill the whole station with concrete so it ceases to exist. It is just rock. If the band happens to be there at the time? So be it. End of story
I never knew, a new Yorker, who wants to spend any amount of time in a subway station. Its something we need to get us across town, on time. If we can avoid hanging out on a subway platform, we will. I get the “free marketing aspect”.. But it’s not free, every person who is on a platform payed $2.25 to get there. The combination of heat ( summertime) piss, panhandlers, general track noises, delays, skipped stops, and the overall lack of air, makes a subway platform rather uncomfortable.
The fucking Molly that says “like OMG! I’m in love with all of them”, should be thrown in front of the L train as soon as it pulls in.
My wife just walked by and said to me, “What the fuck kind of ridiculous shit are you listening to? It sounds like really bad children’s music”. These whitebred, interloping fruitcakes really believe that they are bringing something grand and cultured to us all. And what the fuck is going on with all those braindead, trust-fund mutants around them giving them praise and attention. What a shitfest.
Check out the beardo and gentrifier crowd @ 1:50.
Those are the exact same disgusting people which have driven up the rents and the costs of living in both of our cities.
To make matters worse they are quick to call themselves New Yorkers and Washingtonians within months of just moving into their inflated rental pads.
Kickball playing, snowball fighting, pillow fighting, no pants on the subway, attention seeking, disgusting, wanna-be urban gentrifying pieces of shit.
They even try to compare their wave of migration to past waves of migration of hard working immigrants.
Remember how I related a while back that most hipsters act like they were the kids regularly beaten for their lunch money in high school by the anime club? Well, when astronomers get a good laugh out of mocking hipsters, you know how much they’re hated:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/05/17/i-was-into-astronomy-when-it-was-still-astrology/
And cue the whimper-sneer of “I didn’t think that was funny at all” in three…two…one…
Nice. Dr. Plait is awesome.
The reason those subway “gigs” keep happening is because no one is willing to walk through the “stage” and get on with their day. The more cameras that come out, the more guarantee there is for this shit to continue.
Down here it’s a freak show for the tourists.
Exactly. Don’t move for these idiots. Ever. I don’t move on subway cars for performers, and you shouldn’t either.
How bout those new badoo.com ads on the L? Just the kind of people I’d like to get to know better…fuck
I think “Richard” thinks hes Dimebag Darrell…
Don’t get me started on those freaks….
They’re just an updated version of the LavaLife ads from a decade ago.
Always giving the impression there’s 100 ladies for each man, in reality it’s 100 men for each lady. And that’s not even the good ones.
Hey! Dats good!
Nicely done !
The message is good, but what’s up with the French? And citing everybody but the super and his dog in the credits?
I can’t disagree with the lyrics. I wonder how many hipsters are butthurt over this? Or are they quick to deny being on daddy’s dime?
Wow, A song with an actual melody, lyrics, harmonies, real musical skill. They could teach the faux-Mexicans a lesson!
Awesome song! That guy kind of sounds like John Lennon……kind of.
Kind of…ahem…ironic that Fox 5 News just had a feature a few days back about the ‘Brooklyn’ Grange. Haven’t heard that much nasal-speak since my last sinus infection.
Speaking of the “Brooklyn” Grange, here’s scientific evidence to back up what DieHipster has been saying all along:
http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/18/11737146-does-organic-food-turn-people-into-jerks
Most organic shit really isn’t anyway.
Organic food is a marketing scam and is nothing more then green wash. In most cases it takes more energy to produce and has lower yields. Most major land grant universities that I know of all focus on using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) that combines Chemical, Mechanical and Biological (and this includes transgenic or GMO for better or worst) to produce the highest yield possible. The major problem is you’ve got a jerk like Micheal Pollen writing books and making documentaries telling people that urban victory gardens are going to save the earth. He’s bigger liar then Micheal Moore…..
Die Hipster folks want to have some fun. Ask your average Hipster next time their selling cage free roof top carrots what IPM is or intercropping and watch them stumble.
Jeez at the snot nosed replies that justify their arrogance. These motherfuckers need a goddamn severe beating. “Like yah it’s expensive, you’re paying for quality yadda yadda yadda…” Also, just because you have a food allergy doesn’t mean you get fucking snotty with a person. The whole looking down on those that don’t have/ use a re-usable bag is fucking retarded. Last week on the news some people were getting more illnesses because they use these re-usable grocery bags for everything, sometimes leaving them in unsanitary places only to be picked up and used without any form of cleaning. Sickly looking fucks claiming to lead a healthier lifestyle… Besides, those plastic bags from the market serve as “free” trash bags instead of spending tons of money on GLADbags.
I can tell the non-hipsters in the comments section, many of whom sound like they came from this board.
That article reminds me of that Simpsons episode where the Harvard MBA, who was writing Itchy and Sctratchy cartoons, says “I wrote my thesis on real life experience”.
Seriously, it took some bunch of psychologists to do a funded experiment to prove something my grandmother could have told them – namely that activists are assholes.
I remember another article a few years back where some Harvard brainiac wrote a thesis saying that (drumroll) “Crime Pays Minimum Wage”. In other words, the average ghetto pot/crack dealer wasn’t making the bling-bling that Fox keeps harping on about and that the profits went to the big guys. No Shit Sherlock, something anyone living outside a gated community or gentrified Brueklyn already knew since childhood.
Then people wonder why America is doomed.
Yet they see nothing wrong with borrowing $100,000+ in student loans to learn something their grandparents could have told them for free.
One real problem that very sick people such as myself face all of the time when eating out or asking for anything gluten free or organic is the “stare” or waitstaff rolling their eyes not taking it seriously or saying something like “oh i try to be gluten free when i can.” GLUTEN FREE IS NOT A COOL TREND FOR SOMEONE WITH DEADLY AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES THANK YOU VERY MUCH. This is a real problem for people like myself and the hipsters get in there and create an even bigger problem and an environment where people don’t take it seriously anymore.
Absolutely. I have a cousin with some of the same problems. Wheat allergies (most people would be amazed to learn how much of our food contains wheat), lactose intollerant, and also some sort of gluten intollerance (I’m not sure exactly what — I’m no doctor, I just know he can’t eat even a trace of gluten or he needs emergency medcal attention). He lives way up on the North Shore of Lake Superior, where there are a lot of yups and hipsters and granolas and what-not. At least in the summer months. The very people who are riding this gluten free thing as some sort of health food movement. So some of the local restaurants started offering “gluten free” and “dairy free” meals, to cater to the interlopers.
Well, a couple of trips to the hospital later my cousin realized that you can’t trust a restaurant saying that something is gluten free.
And I fear it is going to get worse. One of the local news stations here in Minneapolis did a piece a while back about Domino’s new “gluten free”, “artisinal” pizzas. They had samples from a few differnt local restaurants tested and they found trace amounts of gluten in every single one. Domino’s only response to their repeated request for comment was that the pizzas are esentially gluten free but because they are cooked in the same ovens with the other pizzas that contain gluten, they may not be safe for people with food alergies.
Their commercials and ads now have fine print to that effect.
I used to date someone who was an obligatory vegan: she was extremely allergic to any dairy product, so keeping milk, cheese, and butter out of her diet was vital. Suffice to say, we made the mistake of going to a restaurant that made a big deal about how it catered to vegetarians and vegans, only to have her sick for the next two days. As I’ve learned far too often, waitstaff in trendy places such as that would rather lie to your face than take the time to check, and my girlfriend paid for it. “Oh, no, there’s no butter or cheese in this at all…I swear…except for the half-pound of Wisconsin’s Finest the cook put in so that the sauce wasn’t lumpy.”
Isn’t it nice that the rest of society should have to cater to those with fatally flawed genes so they can be passed along thereby further weakening the human race.
and.. people that are truly ill and need gluten free & chemical free foods really get the shaft. i’m here to tell you that i’d love to just order a pepperoni pizza or go grab a burger at the in & out. I can choose that and then choose the ER right after. Anyone with a real illness and need for gluten free and chemical free foods would love to just be normal again. that is all.
I see your point. Fscking hip/yups take a legitimate disease and trivialize it. I wonder how many of the twig-limbed bastards fake mild autoimmune reactions just to get more attention?
Plus, there really is an issue with chemicals in food in America. Try getting anything not soaked in formaldehyde outside of NYC. This is an issue I wish people would take seriously.
Don’t believe me? Spend a week in any place in Europe and taste the meat (outside McDonalds). Trust me, you’ll never look back.
Problem is, hipsters take over and it’s all become an organic me me me fest. Now nobody takes the issue seriously anymore because of these dipshits. Look at the number of seriously obese people walking around today. This is largely because they put hormones in cattle to fatten them up. People eat beef, get the same hormones and get ridiculously fat. It is a serious problem which could be fixed without endangering the world’s food supply. Then, the only people who make a stink about it are Michael Pollen cocksuckers and the Eat Pray Love set who distract from the real issues.
I’m not talking organic or hippie shit here, I’m talking real science.
Yes, there really is some weird shit going on with food in this country. I can’t eat beef or chicken in the U.S., but outside the country I’ve eaten it 3 times a day and not felt nauseous or gotten food poisoning.
These mutant hiptards have their heads up their asses if they think growing free range organic cadmium-laced kale and glow-in-the-dark radioactive chickens on Breukelen superfund sites is going to save the world one one Strontium-9 lettuce leaf at a time.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Dxcy67hsU&w=560&h=315%5D
So i leave my apartment for work tonight. Collar brass, freshly starched shirt pants bloused and boonie hat to match. What do i pass going into their new apartment in front of theB65 bus stop, but hummus and meeegan. They have a stroller and bags full of toys. Ok fine hipster larva. What i lived was the bag full of toys, both parents sporting iproducts, and hummus in his strw fedora and vintage looking tshirt that says “dont buy, occupy”. I feel like a refugee coming to bensonhurst next month
They also preach the same “don’t buy” message with smaller non-corporate stores as well but not when it comes to their own kind running things and charging 4x as much. Also, if it weren’t for fast food many people such as myself wouldn’t have had working experience in high school, paving the way for a more productive future (these occupiers fighting the giants of McDonalds, BK and the like).
I don’t have a problem with iDevices or Macs per se but with the snotty hipster loyalists that seem to think Apple can do no wrong or that people that don’t own iStuff are poor and uncreative. Fucking moronic that these people had the nerve to wear clothing that says “Don’t Buy, Occupy” yet sport Apple gear.
I agree with the apple holier than thou bullshit. Apple employees bear the same “I am better and more expensive to own, than you average (insert competitor). Fuck both
I bet the stroller, and bags full of toys were bought from places like Children’s Place, Kids R Us, Toys R Us…you know, those big corporate stores that they hate so much. I’m sure that stroller wasn’t artisanally handcrafted by some “from Brooklyn” stroller artisan. Oh, but “Don’t Buy, Occupy”. Those people are so full of shit.
What the douches invariably do is go to the local store (corporate or non-) to eyeball an item, and then buy the item on line because it’s cheaper and artisinally-produced in China or Cambodia by non-free range prisoners or wage-slaves. Goddam hypocrites…
Plus, if you think those Tibetan fancy cloths are made in Tibet, think again. (Even if they are, Tibet is just another Capitalist shithole where farmers eyes are gouged out by the monks if they don’t produce enough grain. The Dalai Lama is just another little Hitler and the Nazis took the Swastika because they loved their fascism but that’s for another forum. P.T.Barnum would love the place).
What’s funny, in Berlin (the hipsteropolis of Europe), thieves have discovered the value of hipster baby carriages and baby carriage theft is worse than auto theft. You can park a shitty baby carriage anywhere and its safe. Park some 400 euro baby limo and find it gone and some other yup has bought it for 200 euro.
I read on here a couple of days ago that someone would have liked to see animated versions of hipster beatings, so I tried my hand at making a hipster beating comic of my own! Hope you all enjoy!
http://cheezburger.com/6242194432
Let’s all help support ladies beer education.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/653593279/moustache-brewing-co-were-growing-a-moustache
We’re Lauri & Matthew Spitz, founders of Moustache Brewing Company, an artisanal brewery that makes craft beer for the craft beer drinker.
Our Story
We’ve always been into experimenting and trying new things, whether that be with food, music or hair styles. We decided to learn how to brew beer when we realized that we wanted to try something different than what was offered at our local bars here on Long Island. It seemed that the only way we could get interesting beers on tap was to go to New York City!
Over the last few years our beers have been highlighted at festivals around Long Island, New York as part of our local homebrewer’s club. We’ve come a long way since that first Oktoberfest in 2005. Lauri is the founder and runs the Long Island chapter of Girls’ Pint Out, a ladies educational craft beer group. She also serves as the secretary for Long Island Beer and Malt Enthusiasts. Matthew has served as head of the brewing committee for Long Island Beer and Malt Enthusiasts.
Now, 7 years later we are on the verge of opening our own microbrewery. This will allow us to share our love and passion for craft beer with a wider audience.
Like Yah! 2005. That was like, like, like, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long ago. Yah!
…Now, 7 years later we are on the verge of opening our own microbrewery. This will allow us to share our love of money and passion for getting over with craft watered-down cat piss with a wider audience.
Getting together and getting hammered regularly with other Meghans does not a brewmaster make.
$26,864/434 = $62 per donor.
What did P.T.Barnum say again? Either that or it’s a tax writeoff for somebody or money laundering.
Plus, the goods won’t be available until July. Plenty of time for them to do a runner.
Lets check in on the hipster food/beer fest in , the Great GoogaMooga in Prospect Park. Nice day, I’d like a beer:
“Googamooga is a bust so far. turns out people want beer. & they want it first. their weird card instead of cash system doesnt work. Shocker”
“waiting forty five minutes to buy a card to buy beer but the people can’t work the system”
“Beer/wine situation at #googamooga one of the most impressively poorly thought out experiences ever. Everyone in lines, nobody drinking.”
“big time oops on beer and wine tent system…if you aren’t here, don’t come…complete clusterf”
“Beer and wine fail. High tech systems are down and the big beautiful tents are empty. patrons are thirsty!”
Glad I stayed home. Guess I wouldn’t mix with those folks anyway. Plenty of cold ones in my fridge though. Another hipster fuck up. And tomorrow they will tell us all how “kewel” it was
“Lets check in on the hipster food/beer fest in , the Great GoogaMooga in Prospect Park.”
I just happened to walk my dog through the park, having no idea what was going on. I had to ask a cop. Guess I’m out of the ‘foodie’ loop.
Anyway, the revelers looked corny as hell.
Judging by those commentss it just goes to show that all these fucking fairs, markets, festivals that they create and/or go to is just a reason to drink – which is normal (let’s face it; people love to drink) – however, they cover it up by pretending to love Peruvian-Thai-Scandanavian-Zimbabwe fusion food, roasted local rooftop turnips, underground Bushwick hand crafted honey, and authentic artisan pizza made by a bearded fuck from Iowa. That’s what I fucking hate about these frauds.
I remember reading somewhere (I don’t think it was this site) that when hipsters go to art exhibition openings, they go straight for the free wine and have no interest in the art being shown.
I guess somebody else’s “Me! Me! Me!” fest is not so interesting to them.
Oh, they have interest in the art. Namely, the first thing they do after destroying the wine and beer supply is to go to the organizer and try to kiss-ass their way into the next one. (It’s the same deal with general art and craft fairs. You’ll get a gigantic hipster contingent showing up, but they aren’t buying a damn thing. Either they’re coming in to see if their “art” can sell at the show, or they’re there to pull look-at-me stunts, such as bicycling through the crowds or “spontaneously” juggling in front of vendors’ booths.)
Good to see all my real Brooklyn people still holding down the fort on here. For a moment there last year, it almost seemed as though the Wonder Bread Invasion had subsided a bit, but as we near the middle of 2012, it looks as though the redbearded, rickety-old-Schwinn-riding, rent-raising, parentally-funded spigot has been turned on once again somewhere in Pennsyltucky, and the influx of culture-less retards continues unabated.
Hey, Welcome Back! Where were you hiding?
Thanks. I was trying to focus on work and ignore the beardo hordes, but my patience with them has run short yet again.
Welcome back, kemo sabe. It’s been a bit more quiet around here without you. (If it helps, the plague keeps flowing elsewhere, too. Dallas now has big areas that are completely overrun, and Portland is now resembling the first five minutes of a George Romero movie.)
Stupid Street Art get mistaken for bomb. Dumb on so many fronts so , , . Any guesses? The answers are “Brooklyn”, “Williamsburg”, “Bedford Avenue”:
http://gothamist.com/2012/05/19/bedford_bomb_scare.php
Just set fire to it. Fuck ‘em.
Stupidest “from Brooklyn” art project ever. How is this art? Oh, right. ART ART ART ART BROOKLYN ART ART ART BEDFORD AVENUE ART ART ART.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/heart_arrests_holds_designer_actually_VHEwkrXu03Xwo7ca7R7bgN
“A high-profile designer has been arrested for planting false bombs in illuminated ‘I Heart NY’ shopping bags across the city and is being held for a month-long mental evaluation, authorities said Sunday. ” Yup, nuts all right.
Like DUH!!!!
What self-respecting terrorist is going to hang a bomb from a tree and put a light in it???
Where do these people get their knowledge of the world from? Wile-E-Coyote? No, even he’s not THAT stupid. Spongebob? Powerpuff Girls? Barney?
Just kill me already.
Head over to Flickr and search on “GoogaMooga”. You will see people like this: I guess it’s not PC, but if you looked like this , we used to call you “spaz”:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/scottlynchnyc/7231122854/in/photostream/
But wait…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/anthony-bourdain-eat-human_n_1530268.html
I suppose I would let him eat the livers of anti-foi-gras activists who commit acts of terrorism over some geese.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/scottlynchnyc/7231105010/in/photostream/
Ugh, the inistence on adopting the UrbanUndergroundAmericanCaCa style of dress, borders on Walking Abortion. Your moms shorts? Reallly?
And sure enough, the old fart hipsters, the OTHER adopters of ‘cool cat style turned filthy hippy’, are pervily hanging around in cargo shorts or playing electric guitars ( reference the ‘van halen’ picture ).
It’s nice to know the ignorant are meeting at the same watering holes and in such high numbers. If we go into a worldwide famine, I know just where to go hunting.
Hey, at least someone’s supporting an important cause.
http://gothamist.com/2012/05/18/east_village_topless_woman_gets_sup.php
NSFW: East Village Topless Woman Says She Gets “Support” From Onlookers
There’s been a young topless woman walking around the East Village for the past few weeks and, finally, she has spoken, confirming that she’s baring her boobs to remind everyone that women have the right to go free-ranging in New York (so she’s not just trying to avoid ghastly tan lines). NSFW photo below.
EV Grieve posted photos earlier today and Racked got an interview with the activist, Moira Johnston, who explained, “I’m going topless today. It’s to raise awareness that’s it’s legal for woman to be topless anywhere a guy can be without a shirt since 1992 here in New York State.” (Holly Van Voast knows that firsthand.) Johnston continued, “I’ve been going topless for a couple weeks now,” and said of the reaction, “I get a lot of support. Well, there’s mixed reactions, because people aren’t used to seeing it in our culture yet.”
Moria needs all the help she can get. But wait… Skanks on Parade from last year.
Here’s another naked beauty. I refuse to comment any further.
http://gothamist.com/2012/05/19/heres_nsfw_video_of_woman_taking_na.php
Of course it’s to “raise awareness.” It, of course, has nothing to do with everyone stopping and giving her the attention her parents withheld. The real question is “Would anybody give a damn about anything she had to say if she was wearing a T-shirt?”
Exactly. The attention thing is so obvious. Meghan would be devastated if some curvy top-heavy PR chick or Dominican in a Bikini top showed up and took all of the attention.
Far more beautiful nude women to be found elsewhere and besides, it’s just like you’ve said already. It’s a look at MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and it’s also totally unoriginal. The hippies did this all the freaking time. Streaking was used to disrupt everything from plane take offs to televised sporting events to upsetting the prof’s classes.
I’ll wait ten minutes before some hipstard reads this and decides writing a book on the history of streaking would be a good thing. Remember me in your memoirs Ethie Megalopolis
Left work at 10am today. 70 degrees. In one train car alone, 6 wool hats, 4 scarves, 3 fall/winter flannel shirts.
I’m a douche bag
On a fixed gear I ride.
Hipster
Dead or alive.
i opt 4 dead
Here is another picture from “Great GoogaMooga” because you just can’t make a hamburger without thick framed glasses and a fedora
sorry, with link: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/7236385652/
This is where the Masturbation Bros locally source their chocolate.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/scottlynchnyc/7231111970/in/photostream/
“The Great GoogaMooga: Not So Great?”
Looking at this article, one has to realize that this was NEW YORK MAGAZINE! For them to abuse their “base”, the actual event was probably much worse.
“It started at the gate, where festivalgoers who’d planned on rendezvousing inside with pals realized that there was, effectively, no cell-phone service thanks to massively overloaded networks. Since the overlap of people attached to their smartphones and people who attend artisan food festivals is approximately 100 percent, this resulted in the sort of desperate, angry scowling and ape-like poking at nonresponsive devices that would have struck crabby attendee Intel Noreen as a humorous and yet trenchant commentary on modern technological dependency if she’d been able to look up from her own “message send failure” disaster long enough to think such thoughts. (Only with the passage of time has she recovered enough from the tragic hours-long isolation from digital connectivity to do so.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/great-googamooga-not-so-great.html
Their unhappiness should never fail to increase our own happiness.
http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/a-fist-fight-over-fried-chicken-at-prospect-park-googamooga-food-festival/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+animalnewyork+%28ANIMAL%29
“Oh My God! Did you see that???”
Yeah, if I paid over $200 for an afternoon at a food festival I would demand the right to stuff my piehole too. Fried chicken or not.
Of course the organizers were too dumb to figure that out.
This-> “…ape-like poking at nonresponsive devices…” is a brilliant and perfect choice of words.
Great quote about why “Keep Portland/Austin/Gentrified Brooklyn Weird” really means ‘Keep Them White’:
“There really is no mystery why young white progressives gush over certain neighborhoods and entire cities such as Portland and Austin (and pseudo-cities such as Burning Man) that allow them to act poor without having to live next to people who really are poor in a sad and totes non-ironic way and who make better desolation porn as arena for your extreme hide-and-seek leagues than actual neighbors. The calls for “smart growth” to keep these cities “weird” and “creative” is an euphemism for keeping them something else that is best left unspoken.”
http://foseti.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/review-of-the-wingnut-musings-by-ilkka-kokkarinen/#comment-9161
Another good one:
“Our local mall these days has two grocery stores, Wal-Mart for people who are suspicious of diversity but tolerate it in their daily lives, and Whole Foods for those who support diversity but do not tolerate it in their daily lives.”
LOL
Yep lots of good ones in there. I also like the one about how a neighborhood votes. You could substitute the bathroom analogy (is the bathroom of the fast food place locked) with “do you have to prepay for gasoline. Sad but true. And what makes it such a great analogy is that he doesn’t have to say which way each neighborhood votes. You just know. Either from personal experience or common sense.
Too bad that I just learned about this guy now that his blog is down and his book is not available…
The bigotry that shall not be discussed is exactly what’s going on. The white kids from either rural towns or upscale suburbia share the same problems with ‘color’ mores they are raised with. You go to the primarily white church on sundays. Your parks are primarily populated by white people. Your house NEVER has any consistent minorities-as-sincere-friends socializing. Any minorities who do come in are either highly educated and climbing, and even then they will generally keep to themselves. This isn’t some new phenom either, it’s been going on for decades. The difference is that this is a HUGE generation and if you combine it with the EverLost Generation X, who don’t feel comftorable with the boomers, then you’ve got an even bigger generation and the young adults in it that are upwardly mobile financially aren’t going to exactly abandon the idea of better neighborhoods, better schools that their parents had. So there’s never any need to challenge their own racism. Right now is a ‘fun gap’ until they all start getting married and preggo in high numbers and move back home because rolling hills are better for kids lungs than soot is. Or they’ll invade the Hudson Valley or Watertown-type nabes, lol, to enjoy a life on the appalachian trail.
In any event, 98% of them will not have one real minority friend by the time they’re 40, UNLESS that friend is a white homosexual.
Hi yeah you can email too. Did not do much my hosts insist area outside of hospital and hotel is too dangerous for the monkey explorer so I hung out by the pool. We will go to a safer beach area on Thursday. Have only one surgery today so it is more of the same.
Keep Portland Weird…..and white. 2010 Census maps by ethnicity….Portland: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5560465594/in/set-72157626354149574 . Notice the red tide of Joshes and Meagans pushing the blue (African-Americans) out of North and NE Portland – and the deep, deep heart of whiteness in the Pearl District (where hipsters will go once they shave that shitty beard and cover the tats – the real dark red in the middle left of the map.
And for Leroy, here’s Dallas – what are the racially mixed areas in the southwest and southeast of the map? Looks like if the hipsters want diversity, it’s there…. http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5560466366/in/set-72157626354149574
“Keep _______ Weird”
I live in a town where that’s the motto, but if you have to use unnatural efforts (bumper stickers, slogans, et al) to make a town “weird” then it wasn’t naturally weird to begin with.
Given that towns are artificial constructs to begin with, I don’t think they can be ‘naturally’ anything.