The Hipster Handbook
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The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham
A hilarious book that will teach you everything you need to know to be too cool for school- "Your official guide to the language, culture and style of hipsters young and old."-Los Angeles Timeship.ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note- it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat.
Clues You Are a Hipster
1. You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration.
2. You frequently use the term "postmodern" (or its commonly used variation"PoMo") as an adjective, noun, and verb.
3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses.
4. You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded.
5. You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation.
6. You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine.
7. You bought your dishes and a checkered tablecloth at a thrift shop to be kitschy, and often throw vegetarian dinner parties.
8. You have one Republican friend whom you always describe as being your "one Republican friend."
9. You enjoy complaining about gentrification even though you are responsible for it yourself.
10. Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks.
11. You own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City.
About the Author Robert Lanham is the author of The Emerald Beach Trilogy, a romance novel that contains Pre-Coitus, Coitus, and Aftermath. Redbook recently dubbed this collection of literature a beach towel classic. Robert has a superb figure and frequently drives his Camaro shirtless. Although brushing his teeth multiple times a day, he is nonetheless prone to cavities. FREEwilliamsburg, which can be viewed online at www.freewilliamsburg.com, is his present position as Editor.
He resides in Brooklyn, New York, and works weekends at Foot Locker. Bret Nicely's views combining creative practices with sandwich making bolstered much of the early twenty-first century's cultural output. Post-Structuralist Beer n' Brat won the Turner Prize in 2002, and Gourmet Magazine called it a Best One Dish Dinner. Bret met Robert Lanham through a shared love of falafel and went on to become the Chief Creative Officer of FREEwilliamsburg in 1999.
He currently resides in Brooklyn and lectures all around the world. Jeff J-dawg Bechtel was born and raised in the mean streets of Richmond, Indiana. He struggled with a glue addiction as a teenager and turned to sketching to get away from the thug life. Phil Donahue just dubbed him the finest drawer of his generation.
His art has been published in magazines such as Dutch, Maxim International, and Family Circus. He is currently based in Brooklyn and works there.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400032013 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400032016 |
| Title | The Hipster Handbook |
| Author | Robert Lanham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Three Rivers Press |
| Year published | 2003-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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