Hey! You kids! Get off my goddam lawn!, pt.1
July 31, 2008 • 12:13 pm • POSTED BY Dan Shepelavy
Adbusters has declared war, on behalf of Western Civilization itself, on hipsterdom. Read the rallying cry. Have courage! We will reclaim faded Boston “spaceship logo” shirts for the the people who actually like Boston and on the day we win we will play “More Than A Feeling” loudly and we will mean it, man…
Best quote of the whole article:
“I’ve always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it’s always used by chubby bloggers who aren’t getting laid anymore and are bored, and they’re just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable,” he says. “I’m dubious of these hypotheses because they always smell of an agenda.”
ghubacek,
Well written for a hipster.
I think the greater irony is a chubby hipster blogger quoting a hipster on his critique of chubby bloggers. Mind boggling.
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