"Hipster" as pejorative.

my favorite parade in williamsburg is whichever one has the camels. i stumbled upon it one day and was STOKED.

fyi i am a young beardy brooklyn dude and i'm pretty sure i saw whiney on north 6th street yesterday when i was going to meet my dad for breakfast but i was in a hurry so i couldn't stop to chat.

i guess what i'm trying to say is.. in that picture.. that's me & whiney.

CAMELS???

I've always been a fan of the Panamanian Day bugle-only marching bands, but a) I am a marching band/drum core hard-core nerd, and b) I don't live on Franklin Ave anymore so probably will have to content myself with memories now.

http://www.blockmagazine.com/media/King-with-Camel400.jpg

Three King's Day, in Brooklyn.

(btw i didn't read the nyt article cuz if it's art school transplants complaining about neighborhood traditions they can fuck right off.)

you'd think being young and living in NYC wd be a blast but it always seems like a drag in these threads : /

because we're not young anymore

Woooooooooow. That camel parade has to be Epiphany-related, and I think Epiphany is awesome and should get more attention, so that plus camels = this is what's called "a win".

He kinda looks a thing like Jesus
And he talks like a hipster
Like you had no knowledge of when you were young

Three Kings Parade! Yeah, I saw that two years ago. That one is awesome. There were lots of first graders dressed up like nativity wise men dancing around.

ian the article is Italian residents being resignedly WTF at the huppies and huppies being inarticulate abt the parades. It's more a question why there needed to be so much time spent on beardo responses in an article that was otherwise interesting and informative abt stuff like who is St. Cono anyway?

I can't believe max hasn't yet reposted my disparaging comments about the awful bar Daddy's.

daddy's is fine on weeknights before it gets too late.

I can't believe max JW hasn't yet reposted my disparaging comments about the awful bar Daddy's.

My life ca. 2007-2009.

lololol

I was there the other night for the first time in many moons and saw that the little guy bartender who used to look straight out of Middle Earth had de-w00ked, gotten a haircut, shaved his giant food-catching beard and everything.

“There really has been no Italian immigrant narrative written about Williamsburg,” said Joseph Sciorra, a folklorist who has long studied Italian-American traditions. “They have been invisible. But a lot of the history can be tracked by its religious expression.

“Processions map out networks of affiliations,” he added, “people who are devoted to a saint, or are from the same town. It maps out the connections in the community. As people move out and get replaced by new residents, the route gets truncated.”

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Thank god for people who aren't total morons being quoted in the NYT.

That article btw is really the only thing about hipster-dom stereotypes that still infuriates me, that total disconnect from community, family, history, etc. But it's not really a hipster issue, it feels like that's kinda all over the place. So maybe I'm just being cranky.

that total disconnect from community, family, history, etc.

pretty much describes any twentysomething, hipster or no

yeah that's not true. any one that chose to move from his/her hometown to williamsburg, probably.

Are there beardo hipsters on Graham Avenue who are italian-american and grew up in wburg?

No.

Ok maybe one.

What's a hipster?

EAT Y'SELF FITTER!

does anyone know what the italian american population of williamsburg was like 20-30 years ago? I feel like the article is sorta (maybe not explicitly) framing this as a 'poor italians getting gentrified out of their neighborhood' story - but for the most part, didn't these people move to jersey (etc.)?

...and start hilarious tv shows?

^ basically.

I mean if you're gonna write a serious article about italian tradtions dying, shouldn't you be focusing on the italians? hipsters basically have nothing to do w/ this phenomenon and are just being used for their comic value here.

that total disconnect from community, family, history, etc.

getting dangerously close to talk of "rootless cosmopolitans" there. And, to paraphrase Lenny Bruce, EVERYONE who lives in a city is Jewish.

I suggest the tipping point may have been when someone on Seinfeld referred to Kramer as a "hipster dufus"

U can legit be a rootless cosmopolitan, but this hipster trope seems to even mediate that

It feels like a middle-class Italian neighborhood to me, where people own their houses. I don't think the Italian population is getting gentrified out too quickly. Correct me if I'm wrong. My impression from walking my dogs around it every night.

and pulling your pants down at them

They aren't getting gentrified out, also, I don't get the impression that there's much if any tension between the Italian American community and the youngsters.

nothing that can't be bridged w/ a neighborhood italo-disco party

maybe a super mario bros.-themed parade.

http://audioporncentral.com/wp-content/plugins/hot-linked-image-cacher/upload/audioporncentral.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/28/italiansdoitbetter.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkkJaqBbXV8

i was expecting some music set to that

being a hipster is hard

i know the advantage probably leans more hipster-ish than minibosses but I despise the minibosses approach to videogame music. i'll side with hipsters on this one.

not all italians are minibosses, esp not in 2010

I can't believe max hasn't yet reposted my disparaging comments about the awful bar Daddy's.

― thirdalternative, Monday, June 7, 2010 3:52 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what?

10 movies hipsters need to get over

if those are films hipsters bang on about, then im a total hipster

except you me and every1 we know

Does anyone actually talk about Coffee and Cigarettes and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

nobody really gives a fuck about coffee and cigarettes, right?

lol xp

certainly not as much as Big Lebowski ...I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say complimentary things about Reality Bites

i don't really think lebowski or ferris bueller or i dunno most of those movies really connote hipster

I have never met anyone irl or online that likes Reality Bites.

I'd say Rushmore, Lebowski, and Me & You have definite hipster followings, but like, Clockwork Orange and Ferris Bueller, not really.