Word: hipsters
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...heard, but that expression is sometimes better applied to parents. Until recently the most egregious parental oversharing was usually your sister-in-law's Christmas letter or the guy with the endless stream of baby photos. But there's a new species of chatty dad and mom: the hipster parent-memoirist...
...journal Nerve com publishes articles by and for parents who can't quite believe they ended up doing something as square as raising a kid. (In his Babble blog Baby Daddy, Steve Almond endearingly refers to his 3-month-old as "the little f___er.") In a typical hipster-parent offering, an edgy novelist, musician or feminist sex writer has a baby--Me! Who'd'a thunk it!--and wrestles to reconcile his or her sensibility with the numbing demands of the cradle. For blogger Rebecca Woolf, that moment came when her baby barfed on the Moby section...
...Neal Pollack's new memoir Alternadad (Pantheon). Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...
...crowdedness. Two freshman girls who could not stand up repeatedly dug their stilettos into everyone’s ankles in the smoking room. The Advocate ran out of booze by midnight, due to the surprisingly lax admissions policy, but that didn’t stop the dancing. Our hipster pals over there inform us that ennui is so last year...
...show seems to have upped his confidence and ability to chat up the ladies. He’s the whole package: part rock musician, part comedian, part (hopefully victorious) reality TV star. According to a source at Ivygate.com, “He’s nerdy, but in that hipster way so all the girls would do him anyway.” ScarJo Hook-Up odds: 4:1 Clifton G. Dawson Jr. ’07: Scarlett’s ex, Josh Hartnett, played on his high school’s football team. If she likes them athletic, perhaps she?...