What! You’re friends with Jesus?
The Warriors, Turnbull AC’s, Orphans, Baseball Furies, Lizzies, Punks, Rogues, Gramercy Riffs, Boppers, Boyle Avenue Runners, Electric Eliminators, Hi-Hats. Hurricanes…
a phenomenon that has fueled such longstanding internet institutions as Look at This Fucking Hipster and Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers
Revised last month. Probably about to actually appear somewhere.
Oh - I just remembered this from my youth:
Archbishops, cardinals…
Hufflepuffs, Jawas, Browncoats, Smurfs…
Psshht! MIT is so over, man.
They all think he’s a righteous dude.
I wear a construction, lumber jacket and shirt
And I don’t really like it, but hey, that seems to work
And all of my friends now, it’s the uniform of the day
And I can’t get away now, so I just want to say
Also, dig this older thread from @pesco:
Not hurpster?
“What if he’s not wearing a drape and [?]” “Well he ain’t a Ted is he!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6PBuh3tRg
Hipsters are, by definition, not hipsters.
" Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
Eric Hoffer, 1973
Obligs;
The first time I remember hearing the term in mainstream culture was Elaine calling Kramer a “hipster doofus” on Seinfeld.
Kramer was kind of an un-ironic hipster.