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Hipster of the Decade: Stuffing Ballot Boxes and Indecent Proposals
There has been an important development in our Hipster of the Decade poll: after Hipster Runoff's Carles jacked the voting and blasted past Kari Ferrell and Dov Charney, Gavin McInnes has made a very authentic offer to win your vote. More »Hipster of the Decade Update: Is Grifting/Blogging Truly 'Authentic'?
Dov Charney, Carles, and Kari Farrell are locked in essentially a three-way tie for Gawker's Coveted Old-Tymey Mustache Trophy (awarded, for pretend, to the Hipster of the Decade.) And that is lame! More »Bushwick 'Artist Community/Trailer Park' Is Brooklyn's New Hipster Hell
Every year they add a new level to the Dantean inferno that is artistic living in Brooklyn. Now that the youth hostel of infinite microphone feedback, McKibbin flats, is so 00's, they're building an ironic trailer park for 2010. More »Who Is the Hipster of the Decade?
Yea, we know the word "hipster" is played out. That's exactly why we need to pick a Hipster Champ of the past decade. So we can lay the whole damn thing to rest. Your candidates, below. Vote. If you want.Poetry in the Machine: 'Mismatched Plates'
Seed, the AOL Media Borg that will destroy journalism, is still alive, despite our best efforts. Today we launch another missile of creativity at its hull. It asks what to do with mismatched plates, and we respond with a poem. More »The Media Holiday Party Circuit: Drunken Ragers, Danceoffs, and Food at the ______ Party
Hasid-Hipster Price of War Almost as Expensive as a Williamsburg Loft
Behold, the bike lane to nowhere: Bedford Avenue's hotly contested sexy/sinful bike lane cost New York $11K to install and $15K to eliminate to protect Hasids' eyes from scantily clad females, plus whatever damages the guerrilla repainters inflict. [NBCNewYork.com]Exactly As You Would Imagine It
"'Square-dancing here isn't really what people imagine it to be,' [Portland hipster Paul] Silveria [friends with many 'tattooed habitués of the punk scene'] says of the hybrid rock and square-dance moves he does." Oh yes it is. [WSJ]Indie Rock "Do They Know It's Christmas?" SuperCover Obviously Supercedes Original A Million Times Over
Remember Bob Geldof's 1984 superstar-stacked "Do They Know It's Christmas?" track released to benefitLive AidEthiopia? Everyone was on it. U2, Queen, Phil Collins, Sting, etc. Well, the epic indie rock version is here. And it kicks the original's ass. More »Vice: "How To Ruin Music." Missing: "Let Justice remix your song." They're French, too.
Brooklyn's Hottest Stereotypes in Battle of Bike Lane Martyrs
Baruch Herzfeld —
bicycle activist describing the gulf between Hasidim and hipsters in Williamsburg, as revealed in a battle over bike lanes (Hasids say they fear "staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress"), to the New York Post.Prohibition for Pansies: Bathtub Bootlegging Hipster Juice
File Under: Ideas Bad for Humanity. An industrious writer embarked on a mission to recreate the now-banned Hipster Holy Water known as Sparks. Reactions? "God, that's so fucking gross," and "This is the best day of my life." Success! [SFWeekly]Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
Tao Lin's Guardian book review. Related: Going to hospital, back at 3. Brain: exploded.
The National Pork Board Does Not Endorse Eating Cats
The all-powerful National Pork Board has sicced its attorneys on make-your-own-clever-shirt site Neighborhoodies. The National Pork Board strongly disagrees with Alf's assertion that cats are "The Other White Meat." More »Is Hoodie Nation in Full Retreat?
This was supposed to be the beginning of a new era, built around a new kind of pop culture. But when the director of Napoleon Dynamite's new film can't even get a national release, the dream is surely in danger. More »Pabst Brewing Co. Sale Sure to Be 'Hip' (Ha)
Pabst Brewing Company, maker of PBR, is going up for sale. Oh we know who should buy it: A hipster! Hahahaha. Sure, try finding a hipster with $300 million! Hahaha. Maybe for beer they'd find it! Haha. [NYP. Pic: LATFH]Crack, Ugh.
Spencer Morgan's newest Profile of an Odd Man is good enough to make you throw up, because you can almost hear the crack bubbling in a fucked up corner of a too-cool subculture. Ugh. Crack. More »Today's Hipster Grifter News: Cellmate, Porn
Zines Are Back, Or Something, Bitches
Forget about your bitch, and bring a zine to zine night. Bitch! Bring a friend and a friend of a friend, bitch, come on down to aNYthing, bring your zines, to zine night. Zines. Uh...they're back? More »