"Hipster" as pejorative.

was*

I can't quite read it clearly did someone print the burt stanton meltdown on a giant sign?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?hp

the writing of David Foster Wallace, the films of Wes Anderson and the music of Cat Power

a couple of thousand words to say little more than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pje34fUgLQ

Do you surround yourself with things you really like or things you like only because they are absurd?
Do I communicate primarily through inside jokes and pop culture references?
What percentage of my speech is meaningful?
How much hyperbolic language do I use?
Do I feign indifference?
What parts of your wardrobe could be described as costume-like, derivative or reminiscent of style archetype?
Do you attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or ugly?
Is your style an anti-style?
How would it feel to change yourself quietly, offline, without public display, from within?

do i write linkbait opinion pieces?

I came of age in the 1990s, a decade that, bracketed neatly by two architectural crumblings — of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Twin Towers in 2001 — now seems relatively irony-free.

the decade that spawned bands like Jon Cougar Concentration Camp and Man or Astro-Man seems "relatively irony-free" to someone

picard_facepalm.jpg

Do you attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or ugly?

just comes natural lady *tips trucker hat*

this was written by a princeton prof

in this age of bronies and juggalos, i'd feel way more comfortable if nate silver could tell us 30-40% of votes for romney were ironic.

xp ya the stone has been quite consistent in making the practitioners of academic philosophy look like clueless clowns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Wave

jesus christ

http://www.glasswave-band.com/images/rehearsal_1.jpg
http://www.glasswave-band.com/images/BrokenMirror.jpg

Before her hair turned to glass in the waves off the California coast, Christy Wampole (vocals) came from a Texas town whose road sign reads: “Where the West begins.” This explains the groaning desolation one occasionally hears in her voice, which still sounds the notes of that yearning for water which afflicts parched and empty lands. She moved from Texas to France - its smaller sister Republic - where she cultivated an interest in cabaret and chanson, and later performed music from both traditions in restaurants and nightclubs in Dallas and the Bay Area. She is completing her Ph.D at Stanford University with a dissertation on late 20th-century French and Italian essayistic fiction.

shes a witch basically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOt4M4EyDJ4

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/113/f5cbc3378c174930b8c0502cc1974c0f/l.jpg

mop closet a weird place to shoot promo photos but ok

cousin itt convention, iirc

this isn't *that* bad

well, it is. but i know people like this! and they're basically okay people! they own dogs and are mostly kind to their friends.

from the comments:

The fact that fundamentalists are never ironic is to me the highest recommendation for irony that I can imagine.

That Glass Wave wikipedia article would probably fit more comfortably in this thread.

not much irony in those videos

it's pretty confused; apparently celebrates gen x-ers who were politically engaged via actively not caring, hipsters in "a competition to see who can care the least"? like how bad can your existential malaise truly be if it's so clumsily defined

Where can we find other examples of nonironic living? What does it look like? Nonironic models include ... people with severe mental or physical disabilities.

being a literature college professor

dictators are never ironists; people who move things in the political landscape, regardless of the sides they choose, are never ironists.

russian politics are pretty ironic/cynical

this all reads 2 me like someone trying to articulate a complaint about something they actually don't give a shit about

no way, it's much simpler than that, it's a complaint about people making fun of their band on the internet

Where can we find other examples of nonironic living?

(looks around, shrinks as best he can, timidly raises hand)

people in wheelchairs don't express irony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDTlP3OZFmg

ironically the person that wrote that will wake up tomorrow and decide not to kill themselves

well, it is. but i know people like this! and they're basically okay people! they own dogs and are mostly kind to their friends.

― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Sunday, 18 November 2012 20:15 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and one of them just forwarded me this article

hows she going to talk about irony and marketing and advertising and the berlin wall and never once confront CAPITALISM

Where can we find other examples of nonironic living?

Prison

"well at least there's no irony in here"

i dunno, tell that to the corrections corp of america -- their profits are laced with irony

lol Lamp

those might be the ugliest illustrations i have ever seen in a major publication.

that's about all i can work up opinionwise on this.

idg why for the last 20 years when people want to talk abt frivolity and nihilism they call it irony which is just a super common mode of human expression that everyone does a lot, this is a v earnest response to this article - also i dont think anyones out there wearing bieber gear ironically, thats a total 1990s approach

"Cerebral wave" as pejorative.

also i dont think anyones out there wearing bieber gear ironically

these people do exist actually

"actually"

man do even know how un cutting edge theyre being