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alm77,
you shouldn't worry about liking hipster fashion. much of it is just things that were or are fashionable on their own. It's the snotty attitude that often accompanies those fashions that people tend to dislike.

I enjoyed this piece on "blipsters" or black hipsters. http://theroot.com/views/rise-black-h... I think it does a good job of explaining the motives behind outsider fashion.

May 27, 2009 at 3:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Bound Up, with Krista Souter

Gavon,

I haven't been able to see all the cute girls Nobe is talking about, but this one http://www.lawrence.com/news/2009/may... really is cute and picked good songs, so keep up the good work. And if you're getting dates out of these q & a's, i think you owe it to use to live tweet the entire interactions.

and this is a winner: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2009/may... take the premise, add some gavon flavor and you may solve Nobe's problem.

May 26, 2009 at 7:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Adios Larry!

Also sad to see it go (even though I'm not there to see it), but it was bound to happen, I suppose. Glad to have been a part of keeping it alive for a little while. Keep up the great work online!

May 12, 2009 at 11:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Wakarusa Moving to Arkansas

scary_manilow, wouldn't think so, other than for the event itself and some scouting here and there. wakarusa was just one of pipeline's events, as you probably know. and i don't think this is anywhere close to a "eff lawrence, i'm taking my biz and my life outta town 4 eva!" kinda thing. just a relocation of one event - albeit a huge one. and the bonarroo guys sure don't live in manchester. you can produce these events from a distance for a while. and just because you're not seeing the pennies doesn't mean they aren't there and making their way to you in one way or another. the city budget was more in the black when this was here. and w/o it they're, well, w/o it. meggers, knowing the area, i think the interactions w/ local folk and festival-goers will be similar to that in tennessee. there will be some complaints, i'm sure, but for the most-part i think this will be well-received. alm77, though, that's not to say that there won't also be some strict law-enforcement in surrounding areas. this will be seen as a revenue stream for highway patrol, i'm sure.

December 16, 2008 at 2:01 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

O Christmas Free

timely: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/...

December 15, 2008 at 12:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Wakarusa Moving to Arkansas

joel, it'll be interesting, but the presumed benefits of this are the place is private and there won't be a nearby town for people to "dirty up" w/ their hippieness and no townies to complain. Bonnaroo has made it in backwoods Tennessee for as long as they have thanks to private land. it will be interesting. i think it'll end up being good for the festival.

December 10, 2008 at 4:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Synchronicity

tom, interesting article. thanks for making me think about something i wasn't expecting.

November 8, 2008 at 2:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Bitterness on Display

interesting... dabomb.org is a real site. to clarify, zaff is not a girls softball team. he is cool though.

November 7, 2008 at 12:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Bitterness on Display

md_pinks, thanks for your reassurance, though i have to say for the record that Zaff is very open-minded. and none of the things i cited were things he said. this is a spill-over of some years-long arguments/discussions we've had which came to a boil due to this post and a twitter message and an email i sent to a small group of friends regarding this link: http://www.atlargely.com/2008/11/the-... we're all good now though. i just needed the wrist slapping to remember to think these thoughts through and try to see how they would be received from all angles. something i didn't do in the rush to get this post up. but ya, don't get it twisted, zaff is dabomb.org.

November 7, 2008 at 12:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

On Forcing Oneself From History

El_B, good point. i think the comparison lacks a bit bc of the fact the race issue crosses religious lines and matters to people that don't have opinions on religion, but i see your point. i would not be pleased w/ a Lieberman win, though i would be astonished for a Jewish president to be elected and would take solace in the fact we'd done so. unforch, i think we're still far from that point as a nation.but all in all, i lack(ed) proper perspective myself. i shouldn't be too surprised by some negativity. i guess i just prefer the tone and message mccain had in his concession speech to those taking a more negative approach. zaff, as we've chatted this morning, you know this is killing me to have offended folks. and as always, i greatly appreciate your perspective and wrist slapping when i fuck up. that's one of many reasons you're such a great friend. thanks for always making me rethink my message and approach.

November 7, 2008 at 11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )