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“My favorite John Waters movie is…”

Dear Hipster: How are you qualified to be the authority on all things hipster? It’s not like one can go out and get a PhD in Hipsternomics from Stanford. Please ...

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The United States Department of Agriculture’s 160-degree pork guideline

Dear Hipster: Is there a moment that you can identify as the birth of the modern hipster? — Dick, Bankers Hill Well, as I have said before, the hipster is ...

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Social insecurity

Dear Hipster: As the hipster population ages, with older hipsters beginning to receive benefits such as social security, has hipster gentrification been creeping in; whereby the older, now more affluent ...

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Ironic ride: from Brodozer to Honda CRX

Dear Hipster: Would it be possible to ironically drive one of those mondo lifted brodozer trucks, or is that too on-the-nose for even the hispterest hipster? — Charlie I once ...

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Stuck in the service industry

Dear Hipster: I have been working in the service industry for several years, and I consider myself a consummate professional. Recently, some office-worker friends of mine and I were having a discussion about work, and ...

August 26, 2020

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Consider Vlasic “pickleback” shots and Love Island reruns

Dear Hipster: What are some non-hipster things that are secretly (or not so secretly, considering you will publish this for all the world to read) revered and enjoyed by even the snootiest hipsters? — B. ...

August 19, 2020

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August 12, 2020

Morgan Freeman as an extraterrestrial diplomat

Dear Hipster: If aliens invaded the Earth tomorrow bent on our destruction, who would be the best person to act as a diplomat on behalf of the entire world? — Tycho, Hillcrest I’m weirdly flattered ...

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August 5, 2020

Pandemic dating smalltalk

Dear Hipster: When are you going to cover that mugshot of yours in the Reader with a mask? You could just draw one on that supposed likeness of you. — Sam King, El Cajon You ...

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July 29, 2020

Vampires are hip

Dear Hipster: If a vampire ate too many hipsters, would it suffer any ill effects? — Chad If vampires were anything like normal humans, which they might well be if they existed, then they would ...

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July 22, 2020

Rosé drinking positions

Dear Hipster: Rose (rosé?) wine: hipster, trendy, or merely pretentious? — Kate There are exactly two mainstream wine drinking positions that account for something like 98 percent of the people you will find raising a ...

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July 15, 2020

The Earth wobbles off its axis

Dear Hipster: Concerning your article about the North Star, the North Star is not exactly above our North Pole. It is about 1 degree off the true North Pole. You mention taking a time lapse ...

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July 8, 2020

Stuck between two cuisines

Dear Hipster: Although I love dining out, I haven’t been to a restaurant since March. At first, everything was closed, and I spent all this time pondering when I would be able to go and ...

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All stars rotate around Polaris

For whatever reason, I receive a steady trickle of bizarrely ordinary inquiries. I suspect people fire them off for no other reason than that they can. How can something be “bizarrely ordinary,” you ask? Aren’t ...

July 1, 2020

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The push for widespread teleworking

Dear Hipster: I’ll probably out myself as an aging hipster has-been here, but I have to ask: is there a word for the feeling you get when you hear kids talking about stuff that used ...

June 24, 2020

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June 17, 2020

Obscure spirits from the Whiskey Exchange

Hey Hipster: Maybe I’m losing my mind because I’ve been locked out of my Amazon account for a week, and have thus been deprived of all the mindless streaming video entertainment that might distract my ...

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June 10, 2020

If Elon Musk and Grimes got married

Dear Hipster: I was reading the twitface newsfeed nonsense about Elon Musk and Grimes naming their baby a string of alphanumeric characters. Now, I don’t really care one way or the other about celebrities vying ...

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