<![CDATA[The Hipster Handbook]]>

false <![CDATA[The Hipster Handbook]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172219146m/150790.jpg 150790 1 hip•ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat. Clues You Are a Hipster 1. You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration. 2. You frequently use the term "postmodern" (or its commonly used variation"PoMo") as an adjective, noun, and verb. 3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses. 4. You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded. 5. You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation. 6. You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine. 7. You bought your dishes and a checkered tablecloth at a thrift shop to be kitschy, and often throw vegetarian dinner parties. 8. You have one Republican friend whom you always describe as being your "one Republican friend." 9. You enjoy complaining about gentrification even though you are responsible for it yourself. 10. Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks. 11. You own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City. 145536 4 2 2003 The Hipster Handbook total:334|5:56|4:97|3:123|2:51|1:7| 334 1146 436 53 5 4 false false Tue Aug 07 12:43:40 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 12:44:36 -0700 2007 2 2 true false Fri Feb 01 13:30:11 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 11:17:50 -0800 2008 2 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun May 11 15:54:12 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 15:54:50 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Sep 05 10:12:07 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 10:16:50 -0700 2007
A field guide to those who possess tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed "cool" by the cool; (except it's no longer cool to say "cool" - "deck"...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 09 08:44:32 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 08:46:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Oct 06 15:47:20 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 15:48:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Jun 18 07:08:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 07:10:49 -0700 2009 Basically it was just someone taking the cast from Clueless&making predictions.]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 09 09:03:42 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 09:04:43 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Mon Sep 14 16:23:11 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:24:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 12:11:37 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 14:08:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed May 06 22:35:06 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 22:35:29 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 01 14:00:13 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 14:00:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 14:08:31 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 14:08:55 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jul 24 11:51:40 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 12:37:00 -0700 2007
Seriously, really amusing and dead-on with the stereot...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Sep 10 19:04:41 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 15:33:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 14:53:48 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 14:53:48 -0700 2008 Lucky for me, I learned there is more than one type of hipster, and ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 16 12:38:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 12:40:37 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon May 19 14:07:10 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 14:07:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 27 23:45:51 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 23:48:22 -0800 2007
I love handbooks for cool. They are totally cool.

P.S. Don't read this book if you can't laugh at yourself because you will inevitably fall into one ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 06 01:11:48 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 20:45:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=150790