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Is Morningside Heights doomed to the depths of hipsterdom?
All signs point to yes. Hipster overlord Todd P‘s Showpaper, a Brooklyn-based DIY zine focusing on upcoming independent concerts, is coming to Morningside, specifically Kim’s. (In other news, writing the phrase “Brooklyn-based DIY zine focusing on upcoming independent concerts” is something like a crime against humanity, or a sign of the impending apocalypse. Or maybe both!)
“Previously the sheet could only be found in the lower east side, Chelsea, Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Green Point,” explains an email announcing Showpaper’s arrival.
And so Morningside Heights joins the ranks of Bushwick and the Lower East Side as the latest area to experience the chilling aftermath of American Apparel’s manifest destiny. Godspeed, irony, godspeed.
– JNW
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@diehipster http://www.diehipster.com
@That picture is from the Onion. I believe there is a new movement happening where the “new hipsters” focus more on criticism, less on creativity and whose knowledge is so concentrated in one specific, unimportant area that they know close to nothing else.
@james n williams is a barrel of gelt.
i want to put him in my pocket and watch him melt.
@last time i checked people have been dropping off stacks of showpapers at Kim’s since this summer?
@＃30 …and I still don’t know what a hipster is. Does it have something to do with jeans?
@EAL and the people are*
@confession I have a confession to make…I actually have no idea what or who a hipster is.
@anonymous Yeah, I agree with #26…
I’m just wondering why white people seem to always find other white people’s styles weird, when all white people dress really badly anyways.
@Hey Bwog I’m sad. I have exams. What should I do?
xoxo.
@yup Bwog seems to be obsessed with hipsters, leading me to believe that bwog is composed of wannabe hipsters who get back at the real ones by making fun of them. People don’t care so much about them. Let them live their indie life and move along. Most of the time they stay in Brooklyn anyways.
@Anonymous I don’t get it…hipsters don’t even HAVE hips.
@Well The thighsters actually live up to their name.
@is anybody else really bored with the whole “hipster” debate? why does this particular social scene attract so much attention? hipsters love attention and everyone, despite whether or not they support or abhor them, is just feeding their egos.
boooooring
@Bethmann-Hollweg This is actually a fine post.
I almost cry when I walk into a class and see rows of girls in sweatpants and a North Face, while guys line up in their Columbia football or “Senior Fund ’08” t-shirts.
And Morningside Heights is never going to be a hipster haven. It’s arguably one of the worst neighborhoods in New York, after the Financial District and Midtown.
@You sir are a hipster douche. Your taste in neighborhoods gives you away. Fly, fly you hipster douche! Shoo!
@wait I like the idea of someone who cries at the sight of people wearing comfortable clothing
@anonymous Psh, I’ll take the Financial District over Morningside Heights any day – less riffraff hanging around down there.
@invisible_hand is anonymous #23 the new tao tan?!?!
@Rrright Wow you’re an idiot. Morningside Heights is one of the worst neighborhoods in New York? It has beautiful pre-war buildings, enough restaurants and cafes to satisfy anyone’s cravings, and a concentrated population of highly-educated people. And there are a lot of people who can’t afford this neighborhood anymore who would love to live here instead of you, so shut up and go back to your half-the-cost-of-the-cheapest-studio-in-this-neighborhood dorm room.
@whatever.. this neighborhood sucks balls. overpriced restaurants, shitty bars, NO ENERGY.
may as well rename the school “columbia university in the township of south westchester”
and i don’t understand the hipster obsession. THERE ARE NO HIPSTERS AT COLUMBIA. seriously, hipsters are usually found in areas that are fun. this neighborhood hates fun.
@agreed “seriously, hipsters are usually found in areas that are fun. this neighborhood hates fun.”
hipsters arent that bad when you dont overthink them and they dont overthink themselves. they like to party and have a good time, which i dont think is such a problem
@EAL What a poor excuse for a Columbia student. Typical hipster trash: no school pride at all, and you knock all the “Establishment” areas of Manhattan, though I’m surprised you omitted the Upper East Side. You’re just another one of those people who come here and then describe how bad the place is and the people, as if the only reason you came was because it was in New York. Columbia would be better off without people of your ilk. Go take your tight jeans and converse-wearing self back to NYU and stay there.
@ggg i like hipsters. at least they don’t walk around in sweat pants and columbia t-shirts all the time. it’s fun to see people who make an effort.
@hmm... who keeps proposing to split cars in half? is it you, Terrence Bollea?
@The King of Spain Actually, Damian Hirst is doing it as a homage to Gordon Matta-Clark.
@real brooklynite is crying inside.
@are you kidding those glasses are HORRIFIC.
@cs1 http://www.carsplit.com/groups
@get rid of... Get rid of your fucking granny glasses, Juli Weiner, and then we’ll talk.
@but i really like her granny glasses. she is one of the few girls who can actually pull them off.
@false glasses are very easy to pull off, and most girls do so several times a day: I’ve never heard of a girl who doesn’t pull off her glasses before she goes to sleep.
@hahaha Agreed. Juli, stop trying so hard all the time, then maybe you can have an ounce of legitimacy when you knock hipsters. Which goes for the rest of Bwog, too.
@ugh the amusing thing is that i think i could compile a list of ten or so people who are likely to have written this, all of whom try pretty hard at many things that juli weiner does naturally and effortlessly. she is earnest and brilliant in a cesspool of desperate and insecure morons.
@Hahahaha What are you, her boyfriend?!
@lolz hahahahaha, you’re right, it IS hilarious to be nice to someone, what a loser right.
@nice the word “earnest” is a beautiful compliment!
@bleh if you would like to see a copy of showpaper rather than simply dismiss it, there’s one on the door of wallach 9a1 and copies to take inside the suite.
@actually... I would rather dismiss it out of hand. Arg! Ad Hominem! Ad Hominem!
@Rudolf Rocker eat bags & bags & bags. showpaper informs you of cheap/free local music happening every week in the incredible city you ignore daily. also, there is nothing wrong with showing off your slim legs / snogging hot, arty girls with style / conserving cloth. may brooklyn chew you all up and shit you back out in connecticut.
@which is funny ‘cuz half the fucking hipsters I meet are from Connecticut!
@snog http://the-op.com/ref/qe2.php?ep=304
@The King of Spain I learned it best from our cousin Henry of England: there is nothing sexier and more noble than a well-turned calf and a beefy thigh. Skinny legs are for troubadours.
@Gah! Does this mean that Mr. Mercer will now be adding “Advocate for Blipster Rights” to his activist cred?
@Vegetable police Can you just use pics from the onion like that?
@sir, well done. I agree with philoxian society, skinny jeans kill sperm