Car shows are different in Tijuana
"You do not have to babysit the people from leaning or touching the cars.”
Mike Madriaga 2:30 p.m., Sept. 19
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Abandoning the screen for cardboard
The combination of craft beer and Connect Four
Dear Hipster: At first, the news that Game of Thrones would not return till 2019 came as a devastating shock to me and the group of friends with whom I gather every week to watch ...
The irrelevance of the Yellow Pages
You might as well not exist
Dear Hipster: Welp, I got the new Yellow Pages the other day. But, why? I feel like it’s the biggest waste of paper in the world. I literally carried it straight from my doorstep to ...
Everything is a duck in a fedora
I bet you wish that you thought of it first
Dear Hipster: Is a waffle just a hipster pancake? — Anna Dear Hipster: Isn’t a goose basically a hipster duck? — Francis Hipster: Is rugby just hipster football? — Steve, City Heights Dear Hipster: Are ...
Starbucks client may be working a bold departure from mainstream nonmainstreamism
Or meeting Tinder date
DJ: Here’s a couple of softballs for you: (1) What do you think of an apparent hipster walking past one of the hippest coffee shops in SD to visit a Starbucks? (2) Does living life ...
The subtle distinctions of a five-star rating system no longer apply
The meaninglessness of OMG
Dear Hipster: What’s the deal with adding exclamation marks to everything?! Emails! Texts! They’re everywhere! It’s like everybody is just super excited all the time! When did we start overpunctuating?! — Just an Excitable Boy ...
Polish horseshoes — DIY good clean fun
Capitalizing on ingenuity is lowest of the low
Dear Hipster, I just learned how to play Polish horseshoes this last weekend, and I have to say it’s super fun. Basically, you just hammer some four-foot garden stakes into the ground with about 25 ...
When posting Soundcloud comments about some obscure, terrible trap artist...
... proudly attach your name to whatever sick burn you can come up with.
Dear Hipster: Perhaps you can settle this matter once and for all. If I wrote an inflammatory letter to the editor, is it okay to do so anonymously, or should I attach my name for ...
You want to “do something” about homelessness? Good luck.
The basic dialogue falls inevitably upon deaf ears
Hey D.J., How do hipsters feel about the homeless? — Mr. Stinko de Mayo Himself Like almost everyone, hipsters feel bad for the homeless. But, in keeping with the sentiments of Question 1 (above), I ...
You will be curmudgeons
"We used to put liquid smoke and cardamon in our homebrew..."
Hipster: This question is almost like that summer road trip with the folks as a kid, and the endless questions in the car: “Dad, what would happen if...? What was it like when...? Where do...come ...
Courier — perfect typeface for those making a stand
You want it to look like you wrote it on a typewriter
Dear Hipster: I just wrapped up a summer internship (which went well), but I kept encountering a weird point of contention between myself and the higher-ups. My job involved preparing a lot of memos and ...
Actors who move from Lord of the Rings movie to Marvel movie
There is some connection
Dear Hipster: Have you noticed that anyone who plays some sort of elven royalty in a Lord of the Rings movie goes on to play an ugly-ass villain in a Marvel movie? — Dean Lee ...
Burger of short rib, chuck, and brisket no longer trending
#speedofinternet, anyone?
Hipster: What’s up the #hipsterbooks hagtash on Twitter? Um... it’s “trending”? Also, if I’m at an arts, crafts, & brew place, and I order a $17 burger of short rib, chuck, and brisket from that ...
She’s doing the internet troll thing all wrong by mixing pejoratives
What’s the point of being super tough?
Dear Hipster: How did you feel about that reader calling you a “beta male” (at least by implication) a week or so ago? — Joe Unimpressed. She’s doing the internet troll thing all wrong by ...
August’s main crime is not being July
Plus it's back-to-school month
Dear Hipster, Why does August always seem like such a sad month? — Jules Poor August. Notwithstanding the perpetual, residual back-to-school blues, August’s main crime is, and always has been, not being July. Among months, ...
What I shoulda done during Comic-Con
Talk about having gone there at some point in the quasi-recent past, but now being super over it
DJ: So, exactly what does a hipster do during Comic-Con? — Sam King, San Diego Oh, man. What doesn’t a hipster do during Comic-Con? Avoiding downtown like the plague is always a good start. Nothing ...
