Did you mean "simultanesoulsy" in a portman kinda metempsychotic sinse?

Never have I hoped more for deep, terrible economic depression, hyperinflation, mass unemployment, civil unrest, and ecological catastrophe...

I have neither contempt nor nostalgia for the original hipsters, but the return of the goatee, admiration for Bukowski, urban over rural black music etc remains incomprehensible.

Get offa my lawn, beatniks.

1: I meant it more as an indication of my deep and abiding need for an editor.

who is free enough of the hipster's taint to write the hipster's history without contempt or nostalgia?

The square?

Get offa my lawn, beatniks.

Lighten up, Daddy-O.

5: Woulda be easier before hipsterism colonized squaredom.

I might have said "recline, dine and opine," but I'm a fool for assonance.

The hipster exists only out of its element. There are no suburban hipsters.

This is long settled.

7: Curse you, Huey Lewis and your infernal News!

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I'm really kind of freaked out by the cop shooting here this morning. Not esp. close to my house*, but 3 dead cops, 5 fatherless kids, all from one nutjob who was convinced Obama wants his guns. Fuck.

Won't be around to discuss, btw.

* Tho Forensics van was just behind me, headed over.

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I certify that I am 100% uncontaminated by hipster taint. I never get near their nethers, much less between them.

I certify that I am 100% uncontaminated by hipster taint.

Not possible. The invitation says so.

Indeed. Even man in the state of nature is not uncontaminated by the hipster's taint.

But how do you tell a hipster that their taint smells contaminated?

I don't think the flier is an authoritative source. After all, if you have n hipsters, you will have n+1 ironic personal haircuts.

I don't think the flier is an authoritative source.

You would say that, you who thinks he is uncontaminated.

Has the day already come that Huey Lewis is ironically hip? If so, I despair.

Surely even the hipsters, and those who have progressed beyond hipsterdom, have some interests outside omphaloskepsis ...

So does that mean that this is the thread for talking about college basketball?

19: Huey Lewis transitioned directly from regular un-hipness to ironic un-hipness -- completely bypassing ironic hipness -- thanks to American Psycho.

Sometimes these ironically grandiloquent posts from Ben contain gems. "Omphaloskepsis" is such a gem. Well played, sir.

Also, neb has totally ruined n+1 for me. I'd been content to let them be over there doing their thing, with me here ignoring their rss feed.

21: Well thank god for that.
"omphaloskepsis"? Ben's biting someone's style, but I can't remember whose.

His own.

Shame on you then. Allow past w/lfs/n his glories, however rare, without sullying them, or future no flows will sully yours.

12: It was on the news here. I hope talk radio is proud of itself. Fuckers.

Obama should take everyone's guns away, just to stick it to that guy.

24, 25: The first thread linked from that link is interesting.

Now all will look at comment #1 without comprehension, and consider me a crazy, cranky troll. But it's ok, after some of my best comments ever disappeared into the ether the other night, I am used to the the true truth being the hidden truth.

29: I think we figured out that neb suffered a typo.

after some of my best comments ever disappeared into the ether the other night

The one where you said "I love U all" or something like that? Never saw it.

arthegall!!

30.3:Well,I thought it was hilarious

Mission-creep has damaged Emerson, parsi. Beware.

Oops. arthegall!-pwned by eb in the other thread. I added an extra exclamation point, though.

blume!!1!

32.2: What's that? I don't see that I have to beware of Emerson. He's had mission-creep for some time.

It's becoming increasingly clear that the successors of n are so called because they are not interested in incremental change. Only n, which appears to be a constant, plus another constant.

35:I was referring to any missions, callings, projects that you might inadvertently find thrust upon yourself.

Hmm, the previous post could be ironically applicable.

But I violate my own principles.

37.1: You mean I shouldn't say anything in the Fools thread? Right, I know.

(Actually, you may mean adopting a mission with respect to the n+1 people. Nah. Best left alone.)

I thought this game was going to get interesting, but I guess not.

Tyler Zeller is the second coming of Serge Zwikker.

I'm feeling deprived of what would most likely have been an intriguing Pitt/NC matchup. Normally, I root for other Big East teams, but not finding it in me for this one.

But isn't Jay Wright's so much more suave than Jamie Dixon? Even mediated by the television, one just basks his warm glowing warming glow...

Apparently so much basking that I lose the ability to speak English...

I'm just posting to confirm my hypothesis that the Troll of Sorrow will post at least once soon afterward.

Boy are you going to have egg on your face after a while, Adam.

Kotsko, you post-maud fraud! You're a doo-wop clown and you'll never understand that humans crave murder and fucking on a grand scale and... and... and... uh... I usually say something hateful about Yids, don't I...

... oh, bother.

At 5:33 and 6:11, Adam, in case you missed them.

hipsterism colonized squaredom
I'm a fool for assonance.

I really don't want to know what they're doing with their colons, since I've already seen goatse.

Even man in the state of nature is not uncontaminated by the hipster's taint.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is trapped on someone's lawn.

Only n, which appears to be a constant, plus another constant.

Someday n-n, I swear.

max
['n of Troll.']

There's a new spambot generator that mines the post or one of the comments and constructs an almost-plausible response. At Language Hat the bot posted this:

I agree. Written words a lot of weight and are proof of existence.

in response to these two lines of a poem:

Words weigh more which, carefully measured,
Say that the world exists.

That response would have been almost OK if it hadn't started from a poem. There are others that seem pretty stupid, but human -- i.e., AS has been attained.

Or maybe a meat troll is pranking LH.

i liked the building and repair spam, but LH deleted it
musicbot!

To paraphrase Becker and Fagen, proto-hipsters from Steely Dan: "[A]ll things considered, the [Unfogged] experience poses, we think, nothing so much as the musical analog of Richard Burton's famous query, in the sword and sandal epic 'The Robe' -- 'were you ... out there?' Yes, we were."

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It was great fun meeting people in DC over the weekend. Now that I've mostly caught up on sleep, I look forward to checking the thread--days behind, as usual, so you can tell it's really me.

I'd be scanning it right now except that my workplace's web-filter is once again convinced that I must be denied access to the page due to (and I swear, I am not making this up) "Pornography (Italian)".

I must say I shall be quite disappointed if I load the thread when I get home and am not able to find Italian pornography therein. Consider yourselves duly warned.

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