fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

wtf is wrong with things being organic and/or sustainable?
i don't know who michael pollen is really tho.

basically max and #50 otm

50) disliking things due to the narcissism of small differences, sublimated and explicit self-loathing and kneejerk distaste for things other people feel earnest and enthusiastic about thanks 2 ones own total inability to feel joy

pretty guilty of this 2 lol

51) rugby shirts

i don't think there is anything wrong with it per se just ppl going on and on about it and general 'greenwashing' of things imo

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I'm more or less with max. I wish there were a few boutique ice cream shops around here, too.

yeah but just wait until there are too many

i feel ok without them

something i'm not sick of is the pinkberry/red mango/assorted knockoffs sour-yogurt fad, because that stuff is good.

xxpost I love ice cream. I don't care if the douchiest person I know is walking around with a cone of rose petal ice cream and that douchey person's s.o. is walking around with cardamom ice cream in a little cardboard cup, I'm still going to love these places and I'm not going to say, "But they were good when . . . "

52) the senate

52)a.) joe lieberman

cardamom ice cream is pretty good

ice cr?m shoppes

My friend sent me an email about Urban Outfitters selling fixies now. I don't ride a fixie, but I do ride a trendy single-speed bike, and when she sent the email, I thought, Well, the next time I break my frame or my rim is ovalized maybe prices will have come down.

ice cram

<3 fancy ice cream of all kinds theres never enough imo

if you can't laugh at too many cupcake shops, i feel sorry for you

Sometimes I'm just jealous of hipsters. I want their girlfriends and their clothes and shit.

i want their lissom frames but not their girlfriends or their shit

My old boss's sweet 18 year old daughter has been making boutique type cupcakes for a couple of years now and I would feel bad saying she's dumb to be doing so.

I want electricsound's record collection.

on a local level:

53) bridge failures/closures

I just don't have many well-fitting clothes.

54) atheism

i kinda think the bridge failure/closure thing is exciting.

Talking about an imminent bridge closure put my friend in a bad mood for a whole day.

wait, you're sick of atheism in general? or just the recent in-you-face atheism of dawkins, hitchens, etc. ?

Well, because we were talking about this parkway that would be needlessly extended and all the houses that would be torn down for it. And that relating to the bridge closure.

55) talking about urban planning with people

it made me wonder if it was closed for a significant period of time whether the hipsters of SF and those of the East Bay would become distinct from one another.

Well kind of exciting, but kind of a logistical nightmare, although I didn't have it as bad as some, since I take BART counter-commute. Not a bridge-failure, but the recent truck crash was just pretty lousy.

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56) explanations

atheism is sorta past its prime imo, was way better in like 2003-2004

Some of the things on this list are not especially 2009.

i'm guilty of 55)

57) chumbawumba

Ok, now 55 definitely has my name written all over it. I've got a million badly-informed amateur opinions about urban planning.

ha 55 can rly bother me too sorry

so do most urban planners

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58) garfield as a shorthand reference for all that is boring and unhip

59) "sent from my iphone"

60) Offence and people talking about offence and people including it on internet lists

maybe bc my bff is an irl urban planner though, makes everyone else's opinions look like crap xposts

So am I re: 55 and it makes me embarrassed for myself.

61) the beatles

not gonna stop me from pontificating. Really don't regret it either re: 55

harbl's bf:

http://www.comedycentric.com/files/2009/03/parks-and-recreation-schneider.jpg

as a sorta small business owner in an "up-and-coming neighborhood", i end up confronting urban planning to a significant degree.

not bf, bff

Also I love Garfield references and I never hear them!

oh didn't see that 2nd f

I think it has a lot to do with being overly self-conscious about space. I don't need cheese for my existential mousetraps.