<p>This site does not post things in a timely fashion anymore.</p>
<p>Hipster bachelor party coming up?
<a href=“http://www.myballard.com/2012/08/21/cycle-saloon-takes-pub-crawls-to-a-spinning-new-level/”>http://www.myballard.com/2012/08/21/cycle-saloon-takes-pub-crawls-to-a-spinning-new-level/</a></p>
<p>I guess I need to google to find out what a fixie is. I don’t know what raw denim is either. My jeans come from Costco. I am so out of the loop (and proud of it actually). I do drink a lot of Yeungling though.</p>
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<p>5’7" and 135 would be considered quite a chunky or muscled hipster from what I’ve seen and heard. </p>
<p>Incidentally, I could have been a contender for fitting the hipster physique during my first year of college where a combination of a series of growth spurts, a marked increase active hobbies, and skipping meals meant I ended the year weighing 120.5 at a smidgen under 6’0". However, that took place nearly 2 decades ago…an era before hipsters became part of our popular consciousness and my weight has increased since. </p>
<p>From what I’ve seen, hipsters are way more fashion conscious with a judgmental streak to match than hippies who IME are much more “live and let live” in that regard. On that basis alone, being a hipster requires far too much expenditure of sartorial effort for little gain and much ridicule for their fashionista pretentiousness. </p>
<p>I recall drinking a lot of Yeungling in grad school-- the memories…</p>
<p>Someone who is 5’7" & 135lbs has a BMI of 21, which is normal but on the skinny side.
To be overweight ( BMI of 25) you would have to weigh 160, and if was muscle you would still be slender.</p>
<p>I guess I am not hip enough to know what skinny hipsters weigh.</p>
<p>You can also visit unhappyhipsters, which is a hilarious website (though it’s not bohemian-city-hipster, it’s a little more metrosexual-hipster).</p>
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<p>Fixies were always cool.</p>
<p>Are fixies like coaster bikes?</p>
<p>Fixies are bikes where you can’t coast. If the wheels are going around, the pedals are going around. To go faster, you pedal faster, and to go slower, you pedal slower. Like a child’s tricycle.</p>
<p>Fixies are mechanically simple, which is why people have them, but they’re not easy to ride, which is why they crash a lot. The trendy hipster way to set them up is with no brakes. The rider uses the pedaling to slow the bike down.</p>
<p>Ah ha. Thanks.
This is one of the bikes they rode at Ds school.
I think I would stick with the motorized couch!
<a href=“Apocrypha: Attack of the Velocipedes | Reed Magazine”>http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2012/articles/apocrypha/traditions_myths_and_legends.html</a></p>
<p>Hipsters are the biggest pain for marketers - that’s what I learned in our marketing class, because hipsters defy mainstream. They are that coveted slice of the pie that is really hard to get hands on. How do you market to someone who resists anything that is being pushed upon them? </p>
<p>I’m not a hipster. I’m an early adopter. 
We had an Agfa digital camera (with a whopping 1 mb resolution!) long before digital photos were mainstream. We bought a Lexus RX van when mainstream media was ridiculing its looks and questioning its functionality. LOL, today almost every car maker uses the RX as the benchmark for their SUVs (look, ours is just as good!).</p>
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<p>I never understood this stereotype, how many people actually have trust funds? And of the ones that do, I’d imagine that their lives are more like those in Gossip Girls, for example, rather than Girls.</p>
<p>I’ve found that on the internet, hipster has been redefined to mean “Someone who liked something before a bunch of other people liked it.” Which is silly, and probably applies to most people that have interests.</p>
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<p>At least in NYC, that stereotype is derived from the following hipster stereotypes:</p>
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<li><p>Come from upper/upper-middle class families.</p></li>
<li><p>Attended/graduated from private colleges. My LAC became known as heavily populated with hipsters after I graduated. </p></li>
<li><p>Neighborhoods they tend to gravitate toward like Williamsburg tend to be some of the most expensive neighborhoods for rental/buying…and require incomes far above what most recent college graduates…especially those with artistically inclined hobbies/avocations could defray on their average incomes alone. </p></li>
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<p>It’s not so much a question of having an actual trust fund as of having some source of funds that isn’t one’s own labor. Sometimes it’s one’s parents; sometimes it’s one’s dead grandparents. And lots of such subsidies are pretty modest (like staying on your parents’ cell phone plan and health insurance). That doesn’t get you into the Gossip Girl kind of scene.</p>
<p>By and large, though, hipsters have been priced out of Williamsburg, unless they are movie stars or Gossip Girl types, or bought there five years ago. Twenty-something hipsters live in Williamsburg suburbs, like Greenpoint or Bushwick, or neighborhoods like Astoria.</p>
<p>Not sure if this qualifies, as I know a few from various racial groups with similar tastes. But I find the definitions rather apt. Oops, just realized it is a blog, so removed so mods didn’t have to bother. There is a book as well, Stuff White People Like. </p>
<p>There is such a thing as small trust funds. A few years back one of my kids told me his friend could afford her cat’s vet bills “because she has a trust fund for emergencies.” Same kid collects vintage raw denim jeans.</p>
<p>The verbal irony is what I just really can’t take. I’m old with zero sense of humor.</p>
<p>I’m okay, though, with the beer obsessions. </p>
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<p>Greenpoint or Astoria, yes…and the rents are rising fast in those areas. </p>
<p>However, the critical mass of hipsters have yet to come to Bushwick from what I’ve seen and know about that neighborhood. While Bushwick is a relatively cheaper haven for NYC area undergrad/grad students and performing artists/musicians, they’re often too busy studying and/or struggling to make ends meet to spend much time in the hipster scenes. </p>
<p>Not to mention the serious crime issues in some parts of Bushwick, antipathy from longtime local residents, and the long distance from the hipster scene areas substantially reduces the appeal for most hipsters. </p>
<p>Moreover, plenty of the artists/musicians living in Bushwick are the very working class old New Yorkers who detest hipsters for gentrifying and driving them out of their childhood/former cheap artist haven neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Williamsburg. </p>