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Everyone keeps talking about the actual intended argument behind this article. Am I the only one who couldn’t get past how flowery and god awful the actual writing was? Guy could be talking about hamsters and I’d still want him to go away:
“The half-built condos tower above us like foreboding monoliths of our yuppie futures. I take a look at one of the girls wearing a bright pink keffiyah and carrying a Polaroid camera and think, “If only we carried rocks instead of cameras, we’d look like revolutionaries.” But instead we ignore the weapons that lie at our feet – oblivious to our own impending demise.”
Sometimes I pass out drunk onto my keyboard (after a dozen pabst, a trip to a dive bar, and a return to my hip, Mt Pleasant apartment with an coked up 18-year old in short shorts on my arm, of course) and when I wake up there’s better prose on the screen than that.
Does the article address J/O’ing to alt-porn?
romeojulietsierra: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
ihavegoodtaste: Ahhhh Vancouver. I wish I could agree with this article more and hate on hipsters but I can’t. Sure the “counterculture” is becoming homogenized but I’d still rather accept hipsters than the alternative.
chuckmore: Hah! The author of this piece is frequent Only commenter The Publics.
davidlook: Every trend mentioned in this article has come in and out of style many times. Prescriptionless glasses have been around since the Pet Shop Boys, and V-Neck shirts since Brando and Dean (and probably before that too.) As for Pabst Blue Ribbon, I remember drinking that shit more than 10years ago just because of that scene in Blue Velvet becuase I was young, stupid, and impressionable. As long as there is youth, there will be fashion, and with it the critics who say it’s vacant and there’s nothing new, and art is dead, and we’re not punk anymore and blah blah, where are my Belmont’s?
