Archive for 'hipster'
Shake That Booty Politic: Das Racist’s Union of High and Low Culture
The new year is here, and with it, new questions. The New York Times wondered what it would mean if we aren’t calculating horoscopes correctly; Information is Beautiful explored what it would mean if we were; McSweeney’s Internet Tendency asked why comic sans can’t get any respect. I wonder what it would be like to [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2011 under agency, hip hop, hip hop culture, hipster, objectification, politics, postmodern, race, racial profiling, racism, racist.
Tags: Afrofuturism, artifice, B Real, barcade, body, body politic, boom-bap, booty, booty politic, Born Jamerican Apparel, bullshit, cartooning, Cheech, commodification, content vs. form, dance, das racist, Deadheads, death of hip-hop, dog, Edward Said, farley katz, fast food, Fear & Fancy, fonts, genius, ghostface killah, harold, high culture, hip hop, hip-hopster, horoscopes, hoverboards, identity politics, indie, Janelle Monae, kombucha, Kool G, krs-one, kumar, low culture, lyrics, meat is murder, metaphysics, mf doom, murder, nancy reagan, neo-rap, nucca, Oakland, Odd Future, Off the Grid, outkast, personal is political, pizza hut, politics, postmodernism, private self, public self, queens, racism, respect, Rumi, sarah palin, sasha frere jones, solar panels, taco bell, Tribe Called Quest, video games, weed, white castle, who's that broown, williamsburg
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Class Act: How To Escape from "Class Warfare"
Hat tip to Media Matters for Jamison Foser’s spectacular breakdown of media bias in reporting on Obama’s tax plan. As Foser observes in his piece Asymmetrical Class Warfare, most of the influential reporters crying over the end of the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy are also in the wealthiest tax bracket — which will [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2009 under agency, class, hipster, hipsters.
Tags: class war, hipster, lower, middle, middle class, upper, X
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Pigs Still Flying: What to Use Instead of OiNK
OiNK is dead. Here’s a helpful list of what to use instead of OiNK. Not that I, you know, advocate or participate in any rampant piracy of music. But it’s true: pirates are terribly hipster.
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under Oink, hipster, hipsters, music, music piracy, piracy, pirate, pirates.
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Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me: The Pipettes Rock
Three hipsters, with bangs and a penchant for polka dots, are bringing feminism back to the dance floor, where it hasn’t been since Salt ‘N’ Pepa’s “None of Your Biznass” (No, the Spice Girls are not real girlpower: I mean, please, “if you want to get with me, you’ve gotta get with my friends”?). The [...]
Posted: October 4th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, accent, agency, button, doll, feminine, femininity, feminism, girlpower, girls, hipster, kisses, music, no-bullshit, pipettes, polka dot, pussycat, retro, salt'n'pepa, smile, spice, wasted, yoni, your.
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Meta-Hipsters and the Effectiveness of Ironically Self-Mocking PopCulture
So, in between waiting for episodes of 30 Rock to download, I got to thinking. Why is it that I so love this TV show about a woman making TV shows, written, produced, directed, and starred in by a Tina Fey, a woman who makes TV shows? Is there perhaps something especially entertaining about entertainment [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Andy Warhol, Comedy, El Chombo, El Mundo, Eminem, Macarron Chacarron, Magritte, Mia, Stick Figures on Crack, TV, Tina Fey, bloods, cartoon, clothing, consumer, cool, crack, cultural movement, culture, economics, entertainment, fashion, gang sign, hip, hipster, humor, irony, knife, meta, music video, old school, parody, pop culture, producer, psychology, reality, reality TV, retro, self-mocking, skinnycorp, slapstick, stereotype, stick figures, suburbia, subversion, t shirt, threadless, video game, violence, white kid, youtube.
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Rapist Bags! Hilarious!
As Shakesville puts it, “Note to Timbuk2: If a man “steals” a woman’s virginity, it’s called rape. Even if it is “prom night” or whatevthefuck an underage-looking girl in a tacky party dress is meant to represent.” Ok, so I am thoroughly disappointed in Timbuk2. I really thought they were about something beyond the [...]
Posted: May 30th, 2007 under Comedy, Timbuk2, advertising, advertising copy, bad boy, blogging, casual sex, double standard, exploitation, fashion photography, fucking, gender, hipster, hymen, love, rape, rape victim, virginity.
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