Word: hipsterism
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...studded campaign shirts for that oh-so-now glam-T look. Price: $25. While the G.O.P. has no clothing line for the cool kids, Bush did score big glam points when he was endorsed by goth rocker Marilyn Manson. But Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew apparently doesn't think the hipster bloc is in play, telling a show-biz magazine, "We do not plan a coalition of Cross-Dressing Glam Rockers for Bush anytime soon...
...everywhere. Besides hosting "The Tonight Show" Allen starred in the bio-pic "The Benny Goodman Story;" he wrote the songs (including "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" and "Impossible") for a TV book-musical "The Bachelor;" he recorded some spoken-word fairy tales with hipster lingo that became hits and a book (the still-funny "Bop Fables"); he published a collection of short stories ("Fourteen for Tonight") and a study of TV comics ("The Funny Men"); he wrote the lyrics for movie themes ("Picnic," "Bell, Book and Candle"); and he started a Sunday-night variety hour, "The Steve...
...install it on your PDA, and the next time you need to find the nearest Thai food or Irish pub or French boutique, you whip it out and look up the location. Suddenly, you're the guy who knows what's going on. You're an instant hipster. (Not that PDA and hipster are phrases that necessarily belong in the same paragraph...
...IMAGINE THE SCENE maybe six months after I first acquired "Rare Masters." I'm standing in Newberry's, a drugstore blessed with a hipster buyer who controlled the records section, which in those days were all LPs and 45s. I walk over to the Oldies section, or the Girl Groups section, or maybe just S in the alphabetical listing. I flip through the LPs and suddenly I'm holding "The Phil Spector Wall of Sound Vol. 6 - Rare Masters...
...concert is hipster du jour Moby, performing at Avalon on Thursday. I would try to be excited, but since I'm instinctively anti-hype and since I think Moby is pretentious, I'm feeling blas about the whole thing. Plus, I'm getting tired of people proclaiming Play to be "the greatest electronic music album ever." But now you know...