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If Elliott Smith came back from the dead

Dear Hipster: You want to know one thing you never hear about? Hipster mansions. If you picture the most hipster house you can imagine, you see a teeny tiny little ...

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Can Peeps cure scurvy?

Hipster: Why do I feel compelled to purchase discount, post-Easter candy when I would never, under normal circumstances, purchase a giant bag of Kit Kats and mini-Snickers for myself? Is ...

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A combination of unlike elements

Dear Hipster: I have always wondered about the allure of weird, hipster businesses concepts that combine unlike elements under one roof. I’m thinking of things like a combination laundromat and ...

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Truth beyond Plato, Proust, Picasso, or Pinksy

The world is full of accidental poets. You can find them anywhere if you look, and searching for accidental poetry is a time-honored hipster tradition. Accidental poetry stands in stark ...

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Is “The Rain Song” the best Led Zeppelin song?

Dear Hipster: I have recently discovered that a friend of mine —perhaps really more of an “acquaintance” when you get right down to it — is an adamant moon-landing conspiracy theorist. I’m not talking about ...

March 17, 2021

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Foghorn Leghorn Chokey Chicken

Dear Hipster: Is it good or bad if somebody does a good thing, but for a bad or evil reason? For example, if a rich man gives his fortune to charity, but he does it ...

March 10, 2021

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March 3, 2021

Generation Z at war with Millennials — who cares?

Dear Hipster: So, my news feed has been blowing me up all day with stories and tweets etc. about how Generation Z (mostly a bunch of teenagers and people in their very early twenties) has ...

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February 24, 2021

Where is the artisan milk market?

Dear Hipster: Maybe you can help me out with this thing I’ve been pondering lately. It’s a question of hipster commodities. Why is it possible to get a nearly infinite variety of artisan cheeses, but ...

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February 17, 2021

Instagram gardeners

Dear Hipster: We can all agree that maintaining your own urban herb and vegetable garden is tres hipstère, particularly where you use your garden to grow unique foods for hosting elaborate dinner parties where each ...

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February 10, 2021

The Dale Earnhardt on a Kia “upgrade”

Dear Hipster: I was looking at some handmade furniture the other day from a self-described “artisan” who doesn’t have a website or a storefront, only an Instagram presence, and I was like, “Oh, that’s really ...

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February 3, 2021

Arbitrary reasons to terminate a weak date

Dear Hipster: After a long, dreadfully lonely 2020 in which I managed to contract, and recover from, a mild case of coronavirus despite remaining in near-total isolation, I’m super low-key dating again because, well, eff ...

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January 27, 2021

The struggle to become CEO of the World

Dear Hipster: When the big tech oligarchs who now clearly control everything turn on each other in a violent struggle to become CEO of the World, who do you see coming out on top? Tim ...

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Jay and Silent Bob’s earth shattering revelation

Dear Hipster: I’m depressed. Please cheer me up. — Kaye I’m going to assume you’re probably more displeased over the trillion trivial insults you might receive from life on any given day rather than actually ...

January 20, 2021

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The end of civil discourse

Hipissimo Maestro: You hipsters have a penchant — pronounced in the original French way — for preserving and often restoring dying arts. I’m hoping reviving the art of polite, civil, mannerly conversation, even on the ...

January 13, 2021

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January 6, 2021

Full contract bridge

Dear Hipster: I always wondered what happened to contract bridge, and it always surprises me that I haven’t heard about a resurgence of bridge with hipsters. When I was growing up, it was almost a ...

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December 30, 2020

Snap-Dragon as a Christmastime celebration

Dear Hipster: I grew up in the ’60s, when being hip was an ineffable, deliciously rare characteristic. Both my parents were Beats in their day, listening to Billie Holiday and yes, smoking the occasional joint. ...

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