Letters to the Editor
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What an ass!
The LW has too much time on his hands. With all the trouble in the world he's worried about "edgy" - "dark rimmed glasses" - "hanging out in record stores". What a crock! Well, leave your comfortable life and go do all that if it'll make you happy, you fool. We here in the real world will remain unimpressed. We here in the real world are working, raising families, paying bills, and doing volunteer work, not hanging out in dives and making "art". Some of us are scraping up the messes the hip people are making for themselves. As I've gotten older, the "hip" people have become ever so much more irrelevant and sad.
Older people CAN TOO be hip, but in the classic way. Wearing your dad's gold watch vs. a Swatch (do they still sell those? I'm a nerd and can't keep up.) Developing your own sense of style - natural fibers and Levis vs. pink leopard print tank top and $200 jeans. Classical music vs. whatever-hip-band-is-in-style. Drinking fine wine at home with friends vs. snorting heroine in a filthy public toilet. I HATE HIPSTERS! To thine own self be true. Excuse me now, I'm going out and have to put on a matching pink blouse and skirt, natural color pantyhose, and cute comfortable shoes from Walmart. If you hip people want to stand there, filthy, smelly, and nodding out, and sneer, be my guest. You don't impress me at all, just make me laugh inside. F**K YOU, hip people of the world.