that thing white ppl do when they disparage 'white ppl'

i mean there is a lot of buzz about a city like cleveland being "an urban renaissance with craft breweries and farmers markets and cafes" but if you go there you will find a working class and poor people's city where people are still trying to find factory jobs and there are tons of check cashing places and and empty lots and dreary polish neighborhoods with used car dealerships and the browns and the bbq fest are on everyone's mind way more than the local craft brewery or 'foodie' eatery. the city's most vibrant market has always been an old world place with beefhearts and kielbasa and is not some newfangled yuppie CC place for coldbrew coffee.

It's the Trader Joes lifestyle.

Local is the new global.

It seems perfectly natural for all of this fetishization of rural America as a reaction to the Dot Com boom and subsequent omnipresent monolithic iPhone/internet culture. Retail stores are being dissolved in digital era so more care needs to be taken in packaging consumer goods and services. The authenticity of the genuine experience, invoking artifacts relics methods and clothing of a sort of mirror/bizarro America Past to the one the right is always on about taking us back to.

Maybe the US Left disengaged (voluntarily or not) from the public discussion during the Bush years and focused on learning farming/sustainability/public planning/industrial design/steampunk/homebrewing/etc. and through those trades shifting their attention from the national to the local level. Now those people have graduated from art school and gotten jobs marketing stuff.

marcos otm i didnt get that part of carles' post at all

i am still lolling at "entry-level umami (mild bleu cheese vibes)"

also surprised carles hasn't mentioned kinfolk

kinfolk is super fucked up btw

also i lolled at "permanent instragram filter"

it helps to imagine Kinfolk subscribers as 8-year-olds wearing turquoise and purple windbreakers in 1993

lol i had one of those when i was a kid

Don't hate

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0234/5963/products/IMG_7926_large.jpg?v=1428940244

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whiteamericanfolks.jpg

indie guy tryna change partners

that ring

annoying: 15 votes

oh I just posted the W. Kamau Bell link because it related to hip brunch places, and I don't remember seeing anyone on ilx mentioning it.

But it does highlight some of the self-policing these hipster establishments do in order to maintain a sense of "safety" for their customers

― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Saturday, April 25, 2015 7:40 AM (2 weeks ago)

Elmwood Cafe is not a hipster establishment ... it is way more CC/yuppie.

don't recognize difference

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trenchant

byline photo is what pushes it into 'shit that looks like an onion article' territory, I think

haha for sure

if it wasn't inappropriate he would get us all plan #K for christmas.

What a triumph of humility.

that cunt has the fewest twitter followers i have ever seen for a verified account, though with a wafer thin majority of only nineteen over wight dorke (late of this parish)

i like it when lists of three obviously have a third item that's an afterthought, just added to make it three. "and, uh...thought provoking."

http://i.imgur.com/XP6BHha.jpg

lol

lmaooo

u shd tweet that

I stole it from twitter lol

I saw my first issue of Kinfolk in person last week, and let me tell you, it was everything you guys have hyped it up to be

what did you think of Uncle Adolf's vegetarian cooking column?

guess I set it down before I got to that part, really appreciate all the whites and greys in the pictures though

it encourages the reader to grow all their own vegetables, which of course would require more ... er ... lebensraum

don't talk of the elderly like that xp

If they hadn't taken it down from all the scorn, I'd post the advert for Burnside26, a new condo complex in Portland

^^^ just an ex-resident now but you made me look that up, lololololol christ. (the video is down as you say but there were screencaps.) tangentially, the wweek article google gave me mentioned chopsticks2 being slated for demolition! had not known that. the paradox of hipster influx. have posted this before i think but my first year in the city (several before portlandia) a visiting friend remarked "i've never seen so many condos going up!". he was then living in brooklyn, which i was too provincial to recognize as ominous.

the advert doesn't irritate me with its portent of gentrification so much as its portent of shit unimaginative indie idiots strumming acoustic guitars at each other

i suspect that this is everyone's problem with it, really

(the video is down as you say but there were screencaps.)
there's also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YYKgiJzJA0

http://gawker.com/white-jogger-to-white-stroller-pusher-people-like-you-1732557690

Oh man, that was awesome. I love when the people laugh at him and then thank the white guy for moving into the neighborhood.

I fight babies like you, baby!

Man, I wish cocaine killed people as quickly as they tried to convince kids in the 80s it did.

A customer who ordered a mild curry from a local Indian restaurant was horrified to open the takeaway to find the receipt marked "WHITE PPL".

may my thread titles continue to be refashioned on receipts

xp I realise this doesn't strictly fit the thread topic but it does hinge on the phrase "white ppl" making this the best place for it