Kickball President lashes out at a bar owner.
Posted by diehipster at 4/23/2008 10:46 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
This letter from the Brooklyn Kickball President to the bar by McCarren Park is fucking hysterical. The best part is "Patty's thrown me out (he never did apologize by the way), Tommy Flag has locked me out in the backyard, and Joe didn't allow me entrance to the bar on a cold December night. This is tremendous disrespect which I don't deserve"
Yes you do deserve it for creating a kickball league that attracts 30 something year old people to play a 5th graders game. This is not a Brooklyn activity. You all look so out of place. Please go back to your farms and kick everything in sight if you feel the need to. The name of the game should be called KickHipster. Oh, and I hope the softball people keep stealing your shit. I'm sure they only steal it because they can barely afford rent thanks to you over paying morons.
Watch this video, notice the veggie dog sign. (Gotta please the vegan hipsters)
So anyway, read this entire letter I found on Gawker.com. It's great, especially the list of demands:
Yes you do deserve it for creating a kickball league that attracts 30 something year old people to play a 5th graders game. This is not a Brooklyn activity. You all look so out of place. Please go back to your farms and kick everything in sight if you feel the need to. The name of the game should be called KickHipster. Oh, and I hope the softball people keep stealing your shit. I'm sure they only steal it because they can barely afford rent thanks to you over paying morons.
Watch this video, notice the veggie dog sign. (Gotta please the vegan hipsters)
So anyway, read this entire letter I found on Gawker.com. It's great, especially the list of demands:
What the Fuck? Look at this guys demands in Bold. I think the President and the Bar owner should of signed a pre-nup or something. Sounds like The Kickball president needs a lawyer. But then again, the President would loose. He should of set up some kind of binding contract written on paper or some deal with signatures. Or he should start one for next season or he should just walk. Or maybe start some type of Promo business. I must agree on one part though as much as I think of Kickball being wack and all, the Kickball President still should of at least gotten some kind of compensation. I know how it feels to be taken advantage of.
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Kickball only exists because the bar supplies it with booze - it's not a sport, it's an excuse for getting shitfaced on a Sunday afternoon, and drunken hookups on Sunday night. Don't believe me? Look at the letter - "and my lady of the night"
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Dear Diehipster,
Uh..so how do you get this? It can't be real.
Love,
Taf
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Taffey,
On Gawker.com, I just added the link.
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All of those people playing kickball at McCarren Park were the kids who got picked last for kickball in 4th grade gym class. Any normal 7 year old has more coordination than a McCarren park kickballer. Just look at the video, it proves it all.
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OK, After seeing that video I KNOW that hipstsers are meatheads just like the Brooklynites they claim to be sooo superior to.
Seriously, who the fuck comes to the "Greatest City in the World" to play this stupid shit?? At least it WAS the greatest city in the world before they came along. God! I think I'll move to suburban Minneapolis-Buttfuck. It looks sooo edgy now, compared with Brooklyn.
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Anti-hipster sentiment is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives. Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, physically slimmer, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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No, it's not about meat and muscle anymore. It's about originality.
"The John Cougar Mellencamps" How fucking original. God, I'm so square. I would never have thought of something soooo original.
And Kickball is soooo deck. I mean, a sport involving so much skill and dedication. Is there a blog somewhere where I can learn the rules. Oh sorry, I'm not cool enough for that. I use a PC.
And Pabst, guess I'm not cultured enough to appreciate the delicate taste of recycled piss..uuh I mean chemicals ... No it's recycling. It's good for the environment. They should put signs over the urinal handles in Hipster bars: Flush Twice. It's a long way to the brewery.
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The truth hurts doesn't it? Looks like we hit a nerve. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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My sister dated a Hipster once. She thought it would be different then the guys she is used to from Bensonhoist. After about a month she got sick of this kid.
She more or less said it was like dating a child, not a man. He was built like a kid, his parents paid is rent, he had no ambition, and thought he was smart. Sad reality was this spoiled brat from Ohio was just some brat who never had to work for anything. He also was horrible in bed, it was like doing it with a child she said (children play kickball, hmm)
She said that he would cry, he had no concept of responsibility and had an ego with nothing to back it up. I for one can't stand these kids because they are ruining my city and culture.
I have no problem with people moving someplace as long as you respect the neighbors and work for what you own. These little punks are subsidized by their parents, hence they can pay the unreal rents. I am kind of glad the economy is about to fall apart. Talk all the trash you want now hipster, when shit hits the fan and daddy's no longer rich, the real Brooklynites (the ones with muscles from Bensonhurst, Bayridge, Canarsie, hell people from Albany are more Brooklyn then you) are gonna come and show the ladies what a weak little bitch you are. A real Brooklynite is Peter Steele, its not the Pixies cupcake.
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Quite frankly, I moved to a HUGE apartment in a semi-hipsterfied area. My boyfriend and I have the entire floor second floor of our building. And the HIPSTERS don't bother me. My neighborhood was primarily Italians before it became hipsterville. Primarily racist Italians, from the stories I've heard from original neighborhood residents. My neighbors across the street are Italians. Very nice to me, still racist towards Blacks (from a comment one made) --but seem to have no problem with me being Hispanic. My landlord claimed that the neighborhood Italians started giving him a hard time when a Black girl moved into one of his apartmetns in the past. And my landlord who is middle eastern made some racist comments himself about Blacks. The way I see it is that the original inhabitants would rather rent to anyone than Blacks. There are very few if any in my general neighborhood. The one Black woman I saw I believe was a home health aide. And while I don't agree with their comments and views, unless they direct that racism towards me -- there is nothing I will say about it, since I know the kind of Blacks they are trying to avoid. Everyone does.
The hispters in my neighborhood look at me the same way I look at them, basically indifferently, No Hipster has been rude or nasty to me since I moved in, so I could care less. The rent for my apartment is high but not unreasonable, at least not for my budget. I can manage it, I love the quiet and clean of the neighborhood, and the easy commute to work, so I don't mind paying the amount I do. I love my neighborhood so much I plan to buy a condo here. Hipsters not withstanding. As I've said before, they are basically harmless potheads and drunks. I haven't heard of anyone being mugged, raped or beaten by a hipster. So until one of them gets in my face I just ignore them.
There may be some of them that are racist but the ones I encountered haven't seemed that way to me. I think the ones gentrifying urban areas, which my neighborhood was not, have probably got more of an issue than the ones in my neighborhood. My neighborhood was mostly White family homes not an urban environment being gentrified. So the hipsters here seem more like a transition rather than a hostile WHITE takeover.
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Hipsters being "trust-fund brats" is a misconception and certainly isn't a consistent trend among those labled as "hipsters" today. The trust fund stereotype was partly propagated by the Hipster Handbook, written by hipsters in order mock themselves...completing a full circle of irony in a sense. Original or not? That's beside the issue. People labeled as hipsters don't actually read this book or take it seriously. The only ones who actually take it seriously are the anti-hipster ranters who don't have a clue what they're talking about, thinking that this satire is somehow a bible for hipster culture. There are probably some hipsters that have trust funds indeed, just like there are non-hipsters that have trust funds.
Like it or not, the modern hipster movement is here to stay. Deal with it. It was something that was started/re-invented/re-established/recycled over 15 years ago by creative types in Williamsburg, and now it has become the mainstream. In a sense, the hipsters have won as they have successfully "hipsterized" modern sensibilities. "Hipsters" are out partying, enjoying life, meeting new friends, and probably getting laid while the anti-hipster hate mongerers are sitting alone behind their computer screens resenting anyone else out there who is out having fun. I'm pretty sure the group of people labeled "hipsters" would much rather prefer doing whatever they're doing, than to switch places with the anti-hipsters on here.
Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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You post the same exact thing over and over again saying that those of us who hate Hipsters are these macho borish people. I happen to have a Master's Degree and am a lifelong resident of Brooklyn. I hate Hipsters because they are arrogant, smug and walk around like they own the city. In the past ten years I have seen countless friends forced from home and everything I know and loved turned into some trendy hang out for people who will probably be gone from Brooklyn the second some place else becomes trendy.
Look at the above poster, of course she says the Italians are racists but then we have you saying that were these neaderthals. You know what, how would you feel if I walked into your house and changed everything and kicked all of your friends out. How would you like it if I mocked your culture and walked around your house like I was gods gift from heaven. How would you like it if you could no longer afford to live in the place you grew up in. You see some of us actually want to preserve our culture, we want to pass along the same joys we experienced to our children. We want to know everyone in our neighborhood, and we want to be able to live a city that doesn't have to be some fake intellectual art gallery on every corner.
We hate you because you ruined everything our families killed themselves for and have the nerve to mock us. The Hipster movement will be dead in the next two years. Our economy is about to tank and these kids will no longer be able to afford to live in the big city. They won't have jobs, their parents won't be able to help them out and judging by what I hear, they will be shitting a brick when the machon tough guys come to take back whats theirs.
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The ignorant anti-hipster ranters on here would like to have you believe that their hated of hipsters is based on the perception that hipsters are responsible for gentrification and rent increases. The idea that hipsters are solely responsible for gentrification is already highly debatable. Intelligent discourse would tell you that the root causes of gentrification are multi-factorial, and include greedy developers and landlords, our capitalistic economic system, as well as whoever might moving into a gentrifying neighborhood to feed into the system...hipster or not. In fact, gentrification also takes place in neighborhoods that don't have a high hipster populations at all. An example of this would be the expansion of Columbia University into "Manhattanville" in West Harlem (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/property/2006/05/columbias_manha.html). Clearly there is more to gentrification than just hipsters alone. Anti-hipster sentiment based on gentrification is not only misplaced and misguided, but is really a manifestation of deeper psychological issues. Anti-hipster sentiment of the type we have seen here is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives.
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There would be no greedy landlords and developers if talentless, 28 size jean wearing mid-western douchebags didn't start flocking to Brooklyn 5-10 years ago. Hipster defenders are clueless to the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn and tend to only defend the laid back phony hipster life-style over and over and over with the same copy and paste. Face it.
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The hipster crap is not just in Brooklyn, it's all over. And it's an effect, not a cause. First off is the general reversal of the trend to the suburbs of the 1970's - there's alot more people of all types moving to city cores, and the people in them aren't leaving for the suburbs anymore. Mostly because they can't afford it - houses are expensive, income is down, etc.
Second is that most 'hipsters' (non yuppie white youth) are moving into new neighborhoods because they've been pushed out of affordable neighborhoods by higher income groups (yuppies) who, due to the same cultural change, have decided they want to live in cities as well. It's much more and apparent pattern in donut western cities like Phoenix or Austin, where the historic downtown is gentrified in concentric rings. But the effect is the same - once the hipsters move for cheap rent (usually fleeing increased rents from their previous neighborhood) higher income whites feel a neighborhood is then safe. They then move in, and developers then buy out business properties and replace them with Starbucks, and replace low income houses with condos. The hipsters don't buy condos, but they do provide a buffer for those people who do.
There'd be the greedy developers anyways - they're building their crap in places that don't have size 28 jean wearing people in them.
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Remember: You can judge a person's level of insecurity by how many times he/she trolls the same site with the same lame text.
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I realize this is a re-post from an unemployed person who has no real point but the trust fund aspect is interesting. What is it that hipsters do to support 3 months of plastic bag manipulation or having 2 DJ's and a student afford 1100/mo rent (other posts in here?) Trust fund and being supported by someone other than yourself via employment equate to the same thing.
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Don't you people get it, we look at neighborhoods our families killed themselves to build more or less turned into something else in front of us. You kids don't understand the bond we have to where we come from. You see to us our neighborhoods are a defintion of who we are, where we came from and its our pride. If your a Brooklynite or anywhere else, your home is gone, it replaced by someone who looks down upon you as if your subhuman. Yes, Hipsters did cause gentrification, they did. Like Diehipster says, it started 10 years ago when these kids wanted to live this fake bohemian lifestyle.
They got their rocks off living a fake poor peoples lifestyle and then turned our neighborhoods into a freaking mall. They think we want them there and that we love the fact they think our lifestyle is some sort of show. I love hearing my friends from Spanish Harlem telling me about the Hipsters moving in, pushing them out and then coming up to them on the stoop speak spanish like were one with you. Were not, and were sick of you.
You kids will never get it and I am afraid that your going to learn the lesson the hard way. People are getting sick and tired of this.
My wife is from Somerville Mass, another city that has been infested by Hipsters. In that town as well as Cambridge and Southie, people are actually going around attacking Hipsters. I don't blame them, when you have nothing left to lose, you really have no other choice. I personally wouldn't go that far, but when your being forced to move to Albany and commute 2 hrs to your blue collar job, what else do you have to do.
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