"Hipster" as pejorative.

curious who your 1st and 2nd strings are

being called "hipster" as a sign you've made it

"Chances are, you are going to spend one night or most of the weekend with the sorts of aunts and older cousins who smiled politely as you farted up an earlier teenage holiday by buttonholing them and explaining that Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was REAL jazz and would usher in a new and more dynamic era of rap/jazz that made their copy of Kind of Blue look so fucking played"

Ha ha

thanks, atlantic

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/culture_test/incroyables%20vs%20kreayshawn%20irony%20615.png

oh man fantastic photo editing

lil late to the discussion of that nytimes irony piece but this is excellent http://www.theawl.com/2012/12/irony-is-wonderful-terrific-fantastic#more-149401

i love maria bustillos man

this is the first id heard of her but i immediately followed her on twitter, the greatest honor one can bestow upon a writer in our ironic era

she did that piece on DFW right?

this piece has a lot of dfw in it too, and its not all positive ladies and gentleman, you should really read it its v good

excellent point made within, irony is not the opposite of sincerity, and in fact can be employed in the pursuit of sincerity

yes a point memorably made by umberto eco in his postscript to the name of the rose too

Thanks. That was refreshing. I'm going to have to read more MB.

noted hipster, umberto eco

he has the glasses

http://www.denistouret.fr/textes/eco_umberto.jpg

dov charney over here

that is a great article and reflects many of my feelings

btw I think exhibit #1 for why sincerity as overarching outlook to world is nagl is BIG PERP

lol, I just put down that DFW essay on TV last week halfway through reading, it was getting painful

Won't somebody think of the white men?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/guns-and-the-decline-of-the-young-man/

the fuck is that supposed to do with hipsters

rolling christy wampole thread

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LrdLC5OXyGg/TeKhp0mTcnI/AAAAAAAAAug/J1R5-6i7ENM/s1600/Whiteman.jpg

dol't understand why i opened this thread for that.

cant wait to read charles murray's piece on hipster authenticity

The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.

In the Western imagination, the valiance of symbolically charged figures like Homer’s Ulysses or the Knights of the Round Table remained unquestioned since their conception.

If the soldier has largely been replaced by the video game character and the drone, if the mothers have proven that they can raise the children alone, if the corporations are less able or willing to guarantee the possibility of upward mobility and some level of respect that comes with title, if someone else can bring home the bacon, what is left for young men?

All this, and they still are not allowed to cry.

If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same

She's certainly more dedicated than your average concern troll

finally someone who Gets how hard it is to be a young white guy

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-t5J9SCQAEGidf.png:large

Looks like Sufjan in the middle there.

I guess this fits in here...I wrote an article for VICE having a pop at Alt-lit...shit's blowing up:

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/alt-lit-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-literature

thoughts on alt-lit?

ha funny to have an article posted to this thread by the author

a guy on my fb writes alt lit and he's super self-depricating about it, always posts things like "wrote this poem going to kill myself now kthxbye." any time i've read his stuff it's been pretty terrible but idk seems like there's a pretty limited audience for this?

personally, i prefer the kenneth goldsmith/uncreative writing school of internet-informed poetry. it "speaks to me", as it were, because i'm a programmer and many of the methods used reflect the creative methods i use in programming. i dabbled in some of it after learning about OULIPO in an intro college course and was kinda stoked to find out years later that there were actually people doing this with much better results.

alt-lit on the other hand doesnt really do it for me, but i can definitely see why it appeals to the younger internet crowd. i think a better way to describe it would be tumblr poetry because its aesthetics are essentially that of tumblr posts and memes.

funny side note: i created a "fake" tumblr just to follow some blogs and i posted a "poem" which was just text jacked from a linux help file and it got liked by the one and only steve roggenbuck and he started following me lol!

can't believe we're approaching 10 years of this magnificent, timeless thread.

i'm sure there's a great overlap, but are what these people doing really hipstery? it seems like it's missing a "colonizing and appropriating the other" element to be a hipster thing, unless all these guys writing it are actually 50 year old hedge fund managers.

so there's now a facebook group dedicated to me: http://www.facebook.com/ThankYouJoshBaines

that article makes it sound like image macros really annoy you
like alt lit is this flimsy thing you can take or leave, "really" but image macros ~shudder~, ~cringe~

i joined the facebook group ironically

this is one of my favorite ilx threads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bsND7aibvOQ#!

that was very well done and not funny at all

seemed like an awful lot of effort to do... whatever it's doing.

http://hipsteripsum.me/

miss u burt_stanton

that was very well done and not funny at all

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nailed it

almost nailed it: it's also too long

http://raniakhalek.com/2013/02/17/the-best-take-down-of-hipster-racism-you-will-ever-see/

knowing my luck this was the video posted last week upthread that's currently down.