I'd always understood "hipster" as someone who tried to claim creativity by proxy, by acquiring someone else's creative output, and trying to defend that acquisition as unique by deriding anyone and everyone else who acquired it as wannabes.
Heth and Jed, the best buskers of NYC, lure and relax hundreds
of commuters. Space guitar !
Q. But isn't it kind of a contradiction, because isn't bragging about
not having a TV also a sign of status?
A. Yes, because do you know how white people consume "The Wire"?
Netflix subscription watched on their MacBook.
-- Christian Lander, Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to
the Unique Taste of Millions.
See also Salon interview.
The starting point was the Bowery Wine Company, a sleek bar
partly owned by Bruce Willis, ...
Life in the East Village, the Bowery, the Lower East Side, NY.
[via NYT/New York Region
East Village Protesters Denounce All Things Gentrified. It's a Tradition.
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: June 15, 2008
You know it's summer in the East Village when the protesters show up,
speaking against gentrification and its perceived agents.]
Correction: October 21, 2007
An article last Sunday about the fashion industry’s
reticence to use black models referred incorrectly
to a black woman in a maid’s outfit pictured in the
September issue of Italian Vogue.
She was, in fact, a maid at the hotel where the pictures
were taken, and was included, the Vogue photographer
said, because of her attractiveness and her ability to
underscore the pictures’ theme of a stereotypical
rich white woman who hires ethnic servants; the
black woman was not a model dressed as a maid.
After the age of 30 if you're still drinking beer out of plastic cups
that should tell you something about the caliber of person you are.
-- Deal Breaker
Brian Posehn - Metal By Numbers
The best American is not the American who has been here
the longest or the one who just arrived, it is the one who
understands the principles of America the best because
we are a country held together by ideas.
Alanis Morissette, "My Humps"
The Ministry of Finance’s office building in central Delhi,
which also houses customs and economic officials, could
be an advertisement for the need for reform itself. The
elevators are etched with graffiti, wires protrude from
the ceiling and garbage piles up in corners of the hallway.
Outside, a troop of monkeys threads through parked cars,
stopping to eat discarded fruit.
-- [NYT]
Google's first four matches for enthusiasts are automotive fanclubs.
1. Ford Truck Enthusiasts
2. Neon Enthusiasts
3. MG Cars Enthusiasts' Club
4. Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club