Comments on: The Essence of Hipsterism

By: StevenBaxter

StevenBaxter — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:03:21 +0000

Can we talk about how utterly arrogant that Hollister Hovey character is? She seems to have eaten way too many of the animals she collects. Skipping the meals couldn’t hurt and, hell yeah, she’s easy to hate with that pompous, hollier-than-thou ‘tude. Try working in a soup kitchen, lady. Maybe you’ll grow a heart.

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By: kate

kate — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:44:58 +0000

i love edwardian clothes, i have a vintage glass eye and tintypes of creepy children and an old typewriter. also a stuffed duck. i live in the mission in sf. art school grad student. hipster hipster hipster. i collect what i collect because i’ve always loved that kind of stuff, i’ve been a morbid creeper since i was a kid, but you know what? i always knew it was “cool”. i’m not an idiot. i call myself a hipster because i embody so many of the annoying traits of hipsters and i’m cool with it, i embrace it and i call my hipster friends on it. they hate it when i do that, especially my ultimate hipster friend steve (names have been changed). i’m one of the few people i know who can look at myself and see exactly what i’m doing, exactly what i’m buying into, exactly what image i’m trying to project. tight jeans look terrible on me so i switched to vintage dresses. hipster hipster hipster.
one time my friend (musician, artist, hipster) told me i was the ultimate cool girl. i almost laughed in his face. i almost told him i was trying my hardest to fit in, and that i was happy it worked. almost!
no one’s going to buy my stuff if i don’t walk the walk.

By: osiris

osiris — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:19:10 +0000

So, does that mean the all the redneck hunters from my hometown in rural Louisiana who mount deer heads, stuffed ducks, and large fishes on the wall were on the cutting edge of chic decor? In that case, I’m thinking that “gently used” upholstery will soon be de riguer for NYT readers who want the most stylish outdoor rooms-nothing classes up a porch like a recliner. This news will give them a thrill at the Moose Lodge on the Old Kilbourne Road in Oak Grove, LA. Maybe I should see if the NYT would like to shoot their taxidermy collection? On a side note, it’s nice to know that Wendesday Addams finally found a friend.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:57:55 +0000

Hammie – If only!! The dental stuff would get a fortune on ebay!

Nyx – Sounds like you just like to collect. Fairies and glitter = no hipster value, and therefore a nice area.

Susan – Oh, will you help me with steampunk?????

Sardonique – I would say ICK, but if you’re there….

Bevitron – BINGO! xoxoxo

fashionherald – Maybe they were hibernating?

ambika -One would think!

Marie – In small does, I am great, aren’t I?

Nephew Wolf – “This will be new to some of you, but it’s a little Internet tradition ….” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Spoken like an incorrigible Hipster who
can’t resist telling the LAMERS how un-hip they are! HAhahahahahha! You with the hip “memes!”

ellio100 – That’s quite a job. I’d miss it too.

nic – Collecting and selling antiques is perfectly respectable. This is different!

nic – SEE?!

By: nic

nic — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:27:09 +0000

>>>> i have just perused her blog… i thought she was british (like me) she reads as being what we would call “abit jolly hockeysticks” which would be funny and endearing …… if it were not for the fact that she lives in NY, and seems all-american, it’s as serious a case of anglophilia i’ve ever seen

dear god the womans mad!

By: nic

nic — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:06:43 +0000

my hubbie and i have always collected old stuff, his family has sold antiques for years.
i’m hoping we don’t qualify as hipsters as basically we’re not cool and we know it

By: ellio100

ellio100 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:36:08 +0000

hipsters suck. but i used to work in a museum which had a stuffed flamingo and it was the most amazing thing. so puce and dead and sort of friendly. and it was in a box i had to wheel around the office. i miss that job.

By: Nephew Wolf

Nephew Wolf — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:50:15 +0000

This will be new to some of you, but it's a little Internet tradition that whenever a tired and unimaginative online discussion of "hipsters" occurs--and this one is about as tired and unimaginative as they get--somebody is required to post a link to this Cat and Girl comic. The requirement remains in force even when only a few of the participants in the discussion are crypto-hipsters, as is obviously the case here (the rest just don't seem to get out very often). Today I volunteer to be that somebody. Enjoy. Incidentally, if a young trend-conscious urbanite on this Earth ever used the word "deck" as an adjective, it didn't happen within the last ten years. I am convinced that the author of that book was trying to force a meme.