The Hipster Handbook-Quality Guarantee

Description

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 Times

hip•ster – hip-stur (s) n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinionsdeemed 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 massesin daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything helddear 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 footballteam hasn’t won a game since the Reagan administration.

2. You frequently use theterm “postmodern” (or its commonly used variation”PoMo”) as an adjective, noun, andverb.

3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or anotherworn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses.

4. You have refinedtaste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE,Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you aswell-rounded.

5. You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring thisup in casual conversation.

6. You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurantswith monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine.

7. You bought your dishesand a checkered tablecloth at a thrift shop to be kitschy, and often throw vegetariandinner parties.

8. You have one Republican friend whom you always describe as beingyour “one Republican friend.”

enjoy complaining about gentrification eventhough you are responsible for it yourself.

hair looks best unwashed andyou position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximizeyour cowlicks.

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