All of this.

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This post linking to a Vice magazine story is making the rounds on Tumblr."My background is in fine art, and I worked as a mass market designer for a while, so I was always amused and excited by the branding. I also wanted to keep tabs on the quality of the product, especially if something was particularly good, bad, or just dangerous, so the site ( Read more... )

Via April "Helen Killer" Winchell:Here’s the great thing about Etsy. As repellant as some of the shit is that I find there, there is always something worse     Today I present one of the most insensitive features I’ve ever seen on the Etsy blog. And as usual, it’s celebrated in a circle jerk of obliviousness, complete with hipstermatic photos and ( Read more... )

Aw, jeez, not this shit again.

Amanda, I'm so sorry you, and your Gawker-employed friend Maria Bustillos, and the Awl commenter who suggests that "hipster" is an epithet on the same level as "faggot," all feel so oppressed in your hipsterdom, I really do. I'm sorry you're being "made to suffer so much, and so needlessly," because you're music ( Read more... )

This article from NY Mag does the impossible: It makes me sympathetic toward hipsters.At immediate issue is the Bedford Avenue bike lane. It’s the longest in Brooklyn and runs through every imaginable ethnic enclave-including the South Williamsburg redoubt of the Satmars, the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish sect. In December, after many complaints ( Read more... )

I don't write about half the shit that annoys or angers me. I haven't the time or energy. And certain things ping my WTF meter harder than others, for whatever reason. I don't pay much attention to whatever music genre Amanda Palmer falls into, so when I've read on LJ or elsewhere about her fails, most recently with the creepy multi-level fetishism ( Read more... )