This just in! The Huffington Post has named Wesleyan one of the “Top 10 Hipster Schools” in the nation. Thank you, Ariana–we will accept our position alongside Hampshire and Bard as a prestigious bastion of postmodern thought, tight pants, and indie rock.
Of course, no article about Wesleyan’s hipsterdom is complete without a description of Eclectic:
The [...]
It seems that Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), who represents the 3rd congressional district of Connecticut (which includes New Haven and the part of Middlesex County containing our own Middletown), is a fucking hipster.
Who knew? Some blogger started a “Rosa DeLauro Is A Fucking Hipster” Tumblr, compiling photos of the sartorially gifted congresswoman’s various good looks [...]
Find yourself grappling for a definition when your parents and friends from home ask what exactly are those hipsters that you love to mock and/or emulate? Time handily explains the phenomenon for you:
The word would fade for years until it was reborn in the early ’90s, used again to describe a generation of middle-class youths [...]
Online magazine The Root has this embarrassingly unironic article about the rise of black hipsters, or… blipsters, thus somewhat legitimizing a term that probably should not have become a serious thing.
One Himanshu Kumar explains the advent of black people wearing tight pants to readers:
“You can’t really wear sagging jeans without being embarrassed on your skateboard,” [...]
The New York Times reports a microtrend of fresh-out-of-college hipsters choosing organic farming in upstate New York over slumming around in Williamsburg:
Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food [...]
The New York Times reports a microtrend of fresh-out-of-college hipsters choosing organic farming in upstate New York over slumming around in Williamsburg:
Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food [...]
A refreshing or disgusting break from the cute-fluffy-animal or random-youtube timewasting fillerpost-parade. Summer boredom prompts me to surf the internet aimlessly (funnily enough so does mid-term frantic academic blitzkrieg) and I found this wonderful little website called Hipsterotica. Just in case you were missing those eclectic parties:
I knew what was going to happen from the [...]
A refreshing or disgusting break from the cute-fluffy-animal or random-youtube timewasting fillerpost-parade. Summer boredom prompts me to surf the internet aimlessly (funnily enough so does mid-term frantic academic blitzkrieg) and I found this wonderful little website called Hipsterotica. Just in case you were missing those eclectic parties:
I knew what was going to happen from the [...]
: too hippie for the website?
: but, what do you want? It's the calendar section, fwiw.
: The future is not what it used to be. WTF?!
: Accepting Points
: http://congratulations.whoismgmt.com/
: Is williams a "new" ivy? Wes only 8th Most Political College?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/the-new-ivies-10-schools-_n_692223.html#s128862 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/28/the-most-political-colleg_n_697826.html#s129203
