A Mid-day Musing from Just Another Yuppie F*ck
Although the word “hipster” became an insult long before Old Navy began selling “Williamsburg” tee-shirts, this L.A. Times article
about the new trend involving how the pursuit of cool is now uncool
reeks of bad reporting. Almost everyone interviewed in the
article is in the mid-30s to early-40s age range. Yes, people
grow old, they grow tired. Of course they give up the carefully
cultivated consumeristic disaffectedness of youth. That’s the
whole point of getting to 35. It’s wrong to twist this to
announce an entirely new cultural trend against cool.
And I will repeat this for the record (even though it went on the record in 2002), hipsters are dead.
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Oh, and for this week’s international affairs update, let’s focus on Mali, the tiny African country where one of my college roommates completed his Peace Corps stint.
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Another planet? The 10th Planet would be a cool band name.
Saheli
August 1, 2005 @ 5:10 am
You might be interested in this documentary portfolio belonging to my friend Alexandra Huddleston. Her mother, Vicki Huddleston was the Ambassador to Mali for the last three years.