Hip Man's Burden
(x-posted to personal journal)
The New York Times has a piece on hipsters discovering community politics in Williamsburg in order to defend their pseudo-anti-establishment affectations:
"Siri and I have been partying in this neighborhood for a long time," Ms. Sibley said one afternoon recently as she tapped the ash from her cigarette. "We know our friends care about the community, but they didn't know this was going on."
Ms. Wilson added: "I tell them they're planning 40-story towers and rezoning that would make 3-story buildings into these 12-story monstrosities. All our favorite coffee shops will become Starbucks, and our cute little North Seventh pharmacy will become Duane Reade."
For anyone needing more convincing, the women pull up illustrated renderings of the waterfront proposal on the city's Web site. "Look," Ms. Wilson said, pointing aghast at one computer animated figure. "Dockers!"
We can all sleep a little more soundly knowing that such serious, committed, ideologically rigorous activists are putting their ringer-tees on the line for life-and-death issues like the Cuteness of neighborhood retail, and the freedom from affordable khakis.
Amusingly enough they have chosen to organize under the name "Williamsburg Warriors" (their site even has a garbled sample of the "...come out and play!" quote.) Leave it to a bunch of douchebag hipsters to organize in the name of historically crime-plagued neighborhood under the name of a fictional GANG. There is a delicious irony to this, however, considering how many of the hipsters I know have been jacked by REAL gangs on a regular basis.
I'm hoping that the Hasidim lie in wait before the next CB meeting and pelt these fuckers with stones.
The New York Times has a piece on hipsters discovering community politics in Williamsburg in order to defend their pseudo-anti-establishment affectations:
"Siri and I have been partying in this neighborhood for a long time," Ms. Sibley said one afternoon recently as she tapped the ash from her cigarette. "We know our friends care about the community, but they didn't know this was going on."
Ms. Wilson added: "I tell them they're planning 40-story towers and rezoning that would make 3-story buildings into these 12-story monstrosities. All our favorite coffee shops will become Starbucks, and our cute little North Seventh pharmacy will become Duane Reade."
For anyone needing more convincing, the women pull up illustrated renderings of the waterfront proposal on the city's Web site. "Look," Ms. Wilson said, pointing aghast at one computer animated figure. "Dockers!"
We can all sleep a little more soundly knowing that such serious, committed, ideologically rigorous activists are putting their ringer-tees on the line for life-and-death issues like the Cuteness of neighborhood retail, and the freedom from affordable khakis.
Amusingly enough they have chosen to organize under the name "Williamsburg Warriors" (their site even has a garbled sample of the "...come out and play!" quote.) Leave it to a bunch of douchebag hipsters to organize in the name of historically crime-plagued neighborhood under the name of a fictional GANG. There is a delicious irony to this, however, considering how many of the hipsters I know have been jacked by REAL gangs on a regular basis.
I'm hoping that the Hasidim lie in wait before the next CB meeting and pelt these fuckers with stones.