hm, well i guess there are aesthetic and political components of the same basic sort of back to basics ethos.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Thursday, 2 May 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
which is itself pretty different than the ironic appropriation movement or w/e that characterized hipsterism earlier in the decade. maybe those were sloppy examples i listed above, but i still think that a broad swatch of contradictory things fall under the banner of "hipsterdom" so it's not really a useful concept.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Thursday, 2 May 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
An article is roundly mocked and trashed. Solution -- retitle it!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/fashion/williamsburg.html?src=me&ref=general
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's not much of an improvement.
― carl agatha, Friday, 3 May 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
What was the previous title?
― Je55e, Saturday, 4 May 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Will.i.amsburg
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 4 May 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
Oh my God, that dude's twitter feed is the worst/honestly no worse than most me-me-me-look-at-me twitter feeds.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 May 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
i'm going to a party in williamsburg today. i plan to make a big fucking deal out of the people there i consider "hipsters," act like some sort of bemused ethnographer, alienate everyone, and write a piece about my experience for the new york times. wish me luck.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Saturday, 4 May 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
a shiny sacagawea dollar says that you'll encounter nothing more than sighs and "this again?" from the mustachio'd hordes
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 May 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
alford did a good job of looking like a narc in that photo
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Saturday, 4 May 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Bedfoprd Avenue, as stated in an earlier correction
― j., Saturday, 4 May 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
individual strains within "hipster" culture -- like the local food movement, like the boom in artisanal products, like the (sort of) mainstreaming 19th century kitsch -- could be subjects for discussion. "hipster" as a category is too broad. it refers to everyone by now i think.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Preliminary, not-yet-satisfying steps in this subcategorization: http://www.refinery29.com/hipster-handbook
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/is-avenues-the-best-education-money-can-buy.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me&_r=0
― schwantz, Monday, 6 May 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/washington-dc-gardeners-battle-flower-thief.html
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/05/01/flower-thief-returns-to-foil-the-new-york-times/
The New York Times writer has been working on this story idea since June 2012. She's tenacious
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
“It was too far outside my comfort zone,” said one friend, an accomplished cook who has stuffed many a zucchini.
Fried chicken on a biscuit with hot sauce and honey butter — as served at Pies N Thighs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the perfect meal, especially for someone embarking on a juice cleanse the next day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/dining/making-fried-chicken-with-confidence.html
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
"It was compiled by that dude in the Black Flag T-shirt under an untucked, unsnapped cowboy shirt."
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
shit sorry forgot they don't let you steal slide show pics from nyt. anyway, picture of a guy wearing a joy division t-shirt. i thought it was funny anyway.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/08/dining/20130508-REST-3.html
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tbQwd4o.png
― 乒乓, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
billionaire.com is so exclusive it won't even load right on my computer
― j., Friday, 17 May 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/nyregion/illicit-nightclub-in-a-chelsea-water-tower.html
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
i know people who were at thatoh me so quiddy
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
you so forky
― how's life, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
is that a quid ag? lol at the hat tho.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
was gonna say that the people i know who went to that wouldn't be wearing fedoras and then i remembered they very well might
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
trilbys and homburgs of the leisure class
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
in another article I was SHOCKED to read Amanda Palmer played there
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
i um.. i might have helped get amanda palmer get booked to headline the coney island mermaid parade benefit
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
x-post to water tower
At one table, a first date was in progress. Chelsea Cammarota, 35, explained that she and her date did not know each other well. “He sent me a photo of a clock,” she recounted. “I said, ‘I’ve seen a lot of Law and Order.'” Nevertheless, her date, Steve Showalter, told her, “We’re going to do something fun.” But he was clueless, too, running on blind faith in the friend who had given him the watch.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
lol oops, really misread "clock" and was all "she cannot be serious- oh"
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
that would have been "I’ve seen a lot of Law and Order SVU"
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/nyregion/as-boozy-invaders-hit-beach-hamptons-sound-snooki-alert.html
― iatee, Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i also thought of this thread immediately
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I like the phrase "boozy invaders" -- I think I would choose it as a name for a kickball team or something
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
(Not the NY Times) You Need Equity To Live In Silicon Valley (attn: tech guy, a high salary isn't enough to live there).
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
(Unfortunately, families that currently earn $250,000 per year do not qualify for financial aid at most universities.)
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
great find ned. this is vintage:
You could buy a much less expensive home, but then you have to start worrying about the quality of your kids’ schools and the length of your commute. All in all it’s a tough conundrum.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
having no kids and no plans to ever have kids makes me feel wealthy whenever I read shit like this
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
throw another ipad on the fire
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
I could buy, what, 500 iPads a year for what it costs to raise a child?
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not Ned.
Also, I'm never ever moving to Silicon Valley.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
whoops, sorry.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
not a quid ag article as such, but right in the middle:
As the cases of bottled water and energy drinks stacked in the corner of the Yapalaters’ dining room attest, the family is cost conscious — especially since a photography business long owned by the family succumbed eight years ago in the shift to digital imaging. They moved out of Manhattan. They rent out their summer home on Fire Island. They have put off restoring the wallpaper in their dining room.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/health/colonoscopies-explain-why-us-leads-the-world-in-health-expenditures.html
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Sunday, 2 June 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
Well-spotted! Yes, nothing says "cost conscious" like cases of bottled water.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 2 June 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
They have put off restoring the wallpaper in their dining room.
not replacing, restoring! not given up, just put off. the cost consciousness is staggering!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 3 June 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps they could save some cash by inviting world-renowned freelance art restorer Cecilia Gimenez to take a shot at their wallpaper?
http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1276453.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/The+20th+century+Ecce+Homo-style+fresco+of+Christ+after+its+amateur+restoration
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 3 June 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2013/06/01/video_conservative_who_represents_m.php
I actually picked up on this BEFORE gothamist, but forgot to post it here
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 June 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
lol i just put that in the politics thread. it's that important.
― goole, Monday, 3 June 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
dorothy rabinowitz should be a recurring onion commentator
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 June 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link