Happy Thanksgiving
Posted by diehipster at 11/22/2007 10:34 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Happy Thanksgiving all. Here's one thing to be thankful for. Today, tons and tons of hipsters went back west for Thanksgiving.
Oh and while you vegan hipsters were carving a 20lb soy tofu cube today. The rest of us were carving a turkey. Yes meat.
I give thanks this year for diehipster!!!!
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I give thanks for the amount of smugness that it takes to run a website called diehipster.com! Only other NYCers could produce the concentrated amount of smug necessary to counter the smugness of NYC hipsters.
Who cares that the current douchebag re-immigrants to NYC are third generation offspring of Ellis Island folk from the late-19th/early-20th century, back from the Midwest? Only diehipster.com! Anyone not like us in NYC is a douche! And not like us means not having residency in Brooklyn continuously for the last 15 years! Even though we really only arrived here 30 years ago by accident from a womb, or maybe 60 years ago if we can count our lazy grandparents' residency too.
Phwah. You'd really have room to complain if you were Lenape or Mahican, I suppose. Not that you'd care. European-type folk have a knack for oppressin' the native peoples, right? For acting all cultured up in the native's bizness, no? Hangin' out on the beaches with their trifoiled hats and bibles and shit. Who do they think they are, anyway, breedin' away and making us follow their laws and stuff? Is it time to start dieeuropeans.com? No? Not yet? When?
Oh right. We're supposed to be acting differential to the current crop of invaders to NYC, not the people we displaced ages ago. Carry on, nothing to see here but smug. Doodeley do.
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Wow, how about a nice warm cup of "shut the fuck up." Let's get real here, too bad for the natives of 300 years ago, they have the Midwest. You know what pisses me off about a fucking asshole in a Red Sox cap who moves to Astoria and displaces a recently arrived family from Bangladesh? He thinks he's getting a "good deal" on a $2000 studio when the Bangladeshi family could barely afford the previous rent of $1000 but paid the price to live in a community with other people of their culture as they try to adjust to life in a new country. Fuck the yuppie scumbags who replace the ethnic stores that are essential to new immigrants and the rich history of a community with a Starbucks or shitty boutique selling overpriced designer jeans.
Why should the Polish immigrants have to leave for godforsaken Canarsie or some other far off place when they've always considered Greenpoint home for so many generations? Your great-grandparents or grandparents may have left for Kansas, but so many of us were born in and came to NY and are used to life as we knew it. I remember going to Brooklyn Tech and then LIU-Brooklyn and the way Brooklyn was then, is not the way Brooklyn is now. I miss the personality and character it had, now it's just some lifeless faux creation from the mind of a self-righteous asshole who wants to "keep it real."
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You know, I could live with all the trucker hats. I could live with dumbasses from Flyoverville drinking Pabst. I could live with ironic t shirts and wooly hats in Summer. Hell, those things are just fads.
What pisses me off about these little shits is that they displace regular NY'ers with their overpriced rents. That alone makes me want to go on a killing spree in Williamsburg. Then there is their complete lack of any kind of political direction or original thought.
I was a child of the Punk revolution in the 70s. What people don't realize today is that Punk was a cry of pain from inner city kids who were living in real poverty (or close to it). Now, I didn't go sticking safety pins in myself or dye my hair green like a lot of kids, but I squatted empty buildings, took part in political protests and risked being beaten up (by cops/skinheads) for what I believed in. I took real risks and never had money to buy expensive "ironic" shit. I was by no means alone, lots of kids at the time did the same. A decade earlier the Hippies did much the same thing, just different clothing and looks but revolutionary nonetheless.
It was my generation who brought you things like Feminism, Environmentalism and the first Anti War movement.
What pisses me off about today's hipsters is that they have no concept of pain. (Don't give me that Emo shit! You cut yourself with that lightbulb. Nobody else's fault!) They just buy fashions ready made for obscene prices which their rich daddies paid for anyway. I seem to remember a bunch of them who were arrested at the Republican Convention who bitched about getting their sneakers dirty in the detention center. God! If I only got my sneakers dirty back in the day!
Today, nobody could even afford to have an original idea in New York. The hipster politics is about as exciting as a soggy salad at a hipster health bar. Thanks to the rents, all decent artists and writers who previously lived on the LES are now commuting to 2 zone suburbs.
So Fuck you hipsters. And watch out in case I ever put my squatter survival skills to good use.
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Homage is really important. I admire hippies and punks because, as you stated, they stood for something. The generations of the past were truly ORIGINAL, dressing like the punks and hippies today don't make you a punk or a hippie.
I may be overstepping my bounds and bordering on hipster-dom, but I am going to paste song lyrics to the song "Alison" by Slowdive to demonstrate the hipster state of mind to some degree:
listen close and dont be stoned
i'll be here in the morning
cause i'm just floating
while your cigarette still burns
your messed up world will thrill me
alison i'm lost
alison i said we're sinking
there's nothing here but thats okay
outside your room your sisters spinning (Hey Thats The EP!)
but she laughs and tells me shes just fine
i guess shes out there somewhere
and the sailors they strike poses
the covered walls answer slowly
with your talking and your pills
your messed up life still thrills me
alison i'm lost
alison i'll drink your wine
i'll wear your clothes when we're both high
alison i said were sinking
but she laughs and tells me its just fine
i guess shes out there somewhere
These kids are so fucking confused and caught up with trying to find themselves, they stand for nothing and ultimately end up achieving nothing but sucking the originality out of everything. The complacency and sheer apathy is disgusting.
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