Thursday, November 09, 2006

oh, the circle is completed...



this is a better description of the hipster/yuppie (non)divide. same people, different costumes. end of story.

more here. the comments are, of course, full of lively bickering.

frankly, i still think park slope kicks williamsburg's derrida derriere. park slope, is, after all, where new york city's "L"-word type lesbians settle down and raise their families. come on... an army of gym-toned lesbians armed with $500 urban-style strollers vs. an army of pencil-necked indie boys armed with $500 worth of rare 7 inch records - who'd win in a fight?

okay, let's make this more clear:

"bright eyes"/conor oberst

vs.

daniela sea of the L word (okay, maybe not the best representative in this analogy, but they killed dana off, and bette and tina's "park slope-esque life" has been forever doomed by bette's kidnapping her own kid and hightailing it, so the actress who plays moira/max will have to do. plus, daniela sea has muscles. see the muscles? that's the point.)

someone offers you $10,000 to pick the winner of the fight. if you pick incorrectly, you die. who would you bet on?

and, no... "i'd pick conor, because he'd emote until your ears bleed a sea of blood" is not the right answer. (she survived after appearing in his video, after all.)

full disclosure: if there is anything "yipster" it's hoboken. suits by day, maxwell's at night. and a brand new american apparel that just opened right off the main street.

2 comments:

FM said...

i know, right? HAHAHA!

FM said...

but seriously, tribalism is an inherent part of the human condition - this park slope / williamsburg "civil war" just shows what happens when you remove race, class divide, and religious divide from the picture. (the neighborhoods are mostly white, affluent, and secular)

PEOPLE WILL STILL FORM TRIBES OVER SOMETHING ARBITRARY AND CLASH.

i saw some posts at another blog where some angry hipsters suggested vandalizing a new condominium building to scare the "yuppie scum" away.

people need to have conflict or else they go batty.