angry frat kids have yelled the epithet at me. i hang out in the park, played in a kickball league and yes, i'm in a band that practices out of greenpoint.

but i have a 9 to 5 and health insurance, no tattoos and my bike ain't fixed gear. you tell me :)

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Here's the catch: I wouldn't call either of them hipsters. Far from it. But they did move there to be surrounded by the hipster chic.

But let's be clear: "Kids" (24-29, adults by any measure of the word) getting a few thou every other month is one thing. The straw man you bunched up about getting a few bucks from parents in desperate time of need doesn't at all correspond to the claims in this article or what I know to be true: A lot of "Hipsters" are deadbeats with no jobs nor aspirations to ever really earn their keep. Also, some of them do work and are generally decent humans. The whole point of the article, which I think you missed, is to be a bit more honest about the hipster phenomena--that it's a bloated, collapsing vortex of hypocrisy and pretension about 70% of the time.

I am biased. I am a self-made 26 year old that has climbed from the absolute bottom of my industry to a relatively lofty position averaging 55 hours a week for the past six years. So, when I go out wearing normal jeans and sandals and get called a "dude bro" when I'm probably much more intelligent, well-read, and flat out a better human than my hipster detractor, I--well, I find this article great fodder. Just because I pursue my craft (that is to say, music and writing) as a hobby and not a profession doesn't mean I should automatically be assigned some absurd label by an equally absurd person.

I guess what I'm saying is this: PBR is fucking terrible.

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