A Solution (RE: A Problem)

[Kai]

I'm a hipster.


There, I said it. Every morning, I dress up in uncool, weirdly matched clothes, I go to work staring at bug dick, I eat uncool food, I listen to uncool music, and I read uncool books. I am the epitome of weird-uncool. Therefore: I am a hipster.

My solution is to take "hipster" back from those who mock the wannabe hipsters. Besides, I'm a hipster and I do it unironically. And no wannabe hipster wants to be called a hipster, because frankly they're just pretenders. They have to pull this ironic shit so they look like they MIGHT be a hipster but then reject it outright. In some pseudo ironic non-ironic irony. Or some shit.

Besides, I liked hurdy gurdy before it was cool. And still like it even after it is cool. And will continue to like it when it is uncool again. Isn't that, truly, the definition of hipster?

[Don Coyote]

I'm a hipster.


There, I said it. Every morning, I dress up in uncool, weirdly matched clothes, I go to work staring at bug dick, I eat uncool food, I listen to uncool music, and I read uncool books. I am the epitome of weird-uncool. Therefore: I am a hipster.

My solution is to take "hipster" back from those who mock the wannabe hipsters. Besides, I'm a hipster and I do it unironically. And no wannabe hipster wants to be called a hipster, because frankly they're just pretenders. They have to pull this ironic shit so they look like they MIGHT be a hipster but then reject it outright. In some pseudo ironic non-ironic irony. Or some shit.

Besides, I liked hurdy gurdy before it was cool. And still like it even after it is cool. And will continue to like it when it is uncool again. Isn't that, truly, the definition of hipster?

[Jasper]

Not in my mind.  Your manner seems to hearken back to an uncomplicated definition of 'cool'.  Instead of sweating the depths of ironic/sincere recursivity, you're just doing a thing that feels right, and making it yours.  That's where cool normally comes from.  As Wikipedia says, "uncool redirects here".   That's the point.

I know someone who truly believes "cool" is a function of popularity.  They're one of my best friends despite this.

I have met people who think cool is authenticity, as your garden variety hipsters do.  They fetishize it to an absurd degree.  It's unreal.

I don't know what coolness is, but I have my doubts that it has a static value.

[Doktor Howl]

I never thought I'd see Kai pigeon-hole himself.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Not in my mind.  Your manner seems to hearken back to an uncomplicated definition of 'cool'.  Instead of sweating the depths of ironic/sincere recursivity, you're just doing a thing that feels right, and making it yours.  That's where cool normally comes from.  As Wikipedia says, "uncool redirects here".   That's the point.

I know someone who truly believes "cool" is a function of popularity.  They're one of my best friends despite this.

I have met people who think cool is authenticity, as your garden variety hipsters do.  They fetishize it to an absurd degree.  It's unreal.

I don't know what coolness is, but I have my doubts that it has a static value.

This. Besides, I don't know how many hipsters or pseudohipsters inspect bug dick.

[Kai]

I never thought I'd see Kai pigeon-hole himself.

I'm not. I'm providing an alternative to the whole "we made hipsters" argument. Which is stupid.

[Adios]

I never thought I'd see Kai pigeon-hole himself.

I got where he was coming from. I always wore jeans, boots and western shirts or t shirts. I have been in and out of style 3 times. I think this is where he is going with this.

[Doktor Howl]

I never thought I'd see Kai pigeon-hole himself.

I'm not. I'm providing an alternative to the whole "we made hipsters" argument. Which is stupid.

Okay, I'm just dense.   

Sorry about that.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I never thought I'd see Kai pigeon-hole himself.

I got where he was coming from. I always wore jeans, boots and western shirts or t shirts. I have been in and out of style 3 times. I think this is where he is going with this.

What's a western shirt?

[Adios]

I never thought I'd see Kai pigeon-hole himself.

I got where he was coming from. I always wore jeans, boots and western shirts or t shirts. I have been in and out of style 3 times. I think this is where he is going with this.

What's a western shirt?

http://a60.g.akamai.net/f/60/7267/1d/sheplers.download.akamai.com/7267/i/p/086/086192/086192_28_v1_180x180.jpg

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I never thought I'd see Kai pigeon-hole himself.

I got where he was coming from. I always wore jeans, boots and western shirts or t shirts. I have been in and out of style 3 times. I think this is where he is going with this.

What's a western shirt?

http://a60.g.akamai.net/f/60/7267/1d/sheplers.download.akamai.com/7267/i/p/086/086192/086192_28_v1_180x180.jpg

Ah, should have known that. We don't see many of those out here.

[LMNO]

If you start wearing one, you'll be on the cutting edge.

[Adios]

If you start wearing one, you'll be on the cutting edge.

The Horrible Truth™

[LMNO]

I think I have a black pearl-button number in my closet.





Guess what I'm wearing on Friday night.

[Doktor Howl]

I think I have a black pearl-button number in my closet.





Guess what I'm wearing on Friday night.

You make me sad.