Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...albums ? Interviews for Our Time and The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce ? and Lenny, with a hipster snap of his fingers, quickly became my first stand-up crush. I was hooked by the humor, its breadth and pungency, even if I didn't always pick up on the references. Sure, I knew that Orval Faubus was Arkansas' segregationist governor, and I laughed when Lenny had him ignorantly approving of his daughter's engagement to Harry Belafonte ("Nice Italian boy, eh?"), but the allusions to 30s movies and the talent agency MCA sailed over my head. That didn't matter...
...pauses I didn't expect. The machine-gun-fast hipster aphorisms I was prepared for: "No one pops a wheelie for their entire life" (on his career); "The fish stinks from the head down" (on leadership); "I don't do blow. What would I do on cocaine? Start barking and head-butting people? Flame would shoot off me. It would be game over." But every so often he would pause and look over to the side. I figured he was waiting for me to catch up in my notebook, but he would do it even when I wasn't writing...
...word "babe," normally a term of endearment, or at least of hipster familiarity (the 60s equivalent of "dude"), here takes on the acridity of a four-letter word. By the end of the song, the person to whom its sung not only has no doubt she/he's been dumped but finds her/his ego in tatters. The message is: I won't be your love slave, and nobody else should either. It's a rancor most people have felt after an affair goes sour, but was rarely set to music. Dylan started doing it, and kept doing it. In the liner...
...Lecturer in Nonfiction Sven Birkerts was deemed “the worst writer of his generation.” The piece, written by journalist Greil Marcus, lambastes Birkerts in a recent review of essays. “Perhaps [Marcus] views himself as the presiding eminence and guardian of the hipster 60s,” retorts Birkerts. That would explain the journalist’s “obviously bitchy” remarks says the maligned scholar. Marcus quotes a line from Birkerts’ essay, which asks, “Can I possibly convey how those words moved...
...Call it hipster cute or avant-adorable. Cuteoverload.com saves itself from treacly Jean Teasdale territory by being self-conscious and even nerdy. Meg Frost, who started the site last fall, has a gift for writing captions that avoid the patois of faux innocence that turn those calendars into instant kitsch. While Frost anthropomorphizes wildly, these kittens do not encourage readers to "Hang in there!" or enthuse, "Thank God it's Friday!" Rather, sleepy stoner kittens complain, "Look. I cannot deal with you right now," and ponder the need to check their MySpace profiles. Angry pug puppies quote Goodfellas ("You think...