Comments on: Oh, Portland. Updike knows you too well.

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:03:56 +0000

My favorite hipster story of all time goes like this:

When I first moved to Portland, I was out a some bar – can’t remember where exactly and there was some hipster kid in a Richard Pryor t-shirt, which I thought was awesome, and here’s how our conversation went:

Me: Nice shirt dude!

Hipster: Thanks! It’s Richard Pryor… He’s like my favorite, I’m kind of obsessed with him.

Me: Yeah? Wow. That’s really awesome. I remember sneaking into my parent’s basement with my brothers to listen to his records when I was a kid.

Hipster: Wow! I never knew he was in a band.

Me: …

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:54:17 +0000

The way I see it is it’s ok to hate hipsters because they started it. Does anybody else get the sense that they’re all judgey and think they’re better than everyone else? Am I right or am I right?

By: Zoe

Zoe — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:34:47 +0000

Small hill! It was a small hill. Sorry.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:34:27 +0000

I just finished reading Helping Me Help Myself by Beth Lisick. She is a funny lady, like you, and I think you would like the book. Have you read it?

My only other comment on the content of the post is this: last night I was waiting for the bus and four kids walked past me, pushing their fixie bikes up the small, all of them with purposely mussed hair and mismatched clothing. I felt bad for a second when I realized I’d been sneering at them.

By: Charley

Charley — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:06:31 +0000

Just because I have hips doesn’t make me a hipster.

By: Kiala

Kiala — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:41:23 +0000

You should move back, Serena. Forget everything I said. Please move back. Please.

C’mon!

By: Serena

Serena — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:39:57 +0000

Ooops, “your” instead of “you’re”. Ya’ll writers are sticklers for them thar grammer and stuff….

By: ken

ken — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:57:36 +0000

well, the bottom line is that anything worth doing in life is going to take some sweat.

that’s the basic issue i see with this generation Y or Z or whatever the hell we’re up to now: nobody wants to even get in the game.

By: Kiala

Kiala — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:38:47 +0000

Crissy – Mewling = to cry weakly

Robert – I don’t hate hipsters. I hate the annoying attitude which seems to have really ramped up recently among Portand-ite-ers. I wish I could ignore it, but I am SO SICK of the judgmental vapid bullshit, that I had to write about it. Then again, maybe I’m just getting old except, no, it’s always bothered me. But don’t worry, today I’ll be annoyed by something else. Or excited. Or both. WHen are you coming to visit?

Matt – exactly.

Melissa – exactly.

By: Serena

Serena — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:07:57 +0000

Lately we’ve been contemplating moving back (back for me at least) because NY is dirty and we’ll never be able to afford a house….you’re last two posts remind me of why I maybe don’t want to. This joke’s old and I don’t think they wear them anymore (maybe the cabbie does since she’s from 1997), but: Why can’t hipsters do karate? … because they can’t get past the white belt. Sorry, not funny but I couldn’t resist. XOXO