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Is Morningside Heights doomed to the depths of hipsterdom?

All signs point to yes. Hipster overlord Todd P's Showpaper, a Brooklyn-based DIY zine focusing on upcoming independent concerts, is coming to Morningside, specifically Kim's. (In other news, writing the phrase "Brooklyn-based DIY zine focusing on upcoming independent concerts" is something like a crime against humanity, or a sign of the impending apocalypse. Or maybe both!)

"Previously the sheet could only be found in the lower east side, Chelsea, Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Green Point," explains an email announcing Showpaper's arrival.

And so Morningside Heights joins the ranks of Bushwick and the Lower East Side as the latest area to experience the chilling aftermath of American Apparel's manifest destiny. Godspeed, irony, godspeed.

- JNW

See also: Hipsters

Posted by sir, : #1 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 3:43 PM
well done. I agree with philoxian society, skinny jeans kill sperm
Posted by Vegetable police: #2 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Can you just use pics from the onion like that?
Posted by Gah!: #3 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 4:09 PM
Does this mean that Mr. Mercer will now be adding "Advocate for Blipster Rights" to his activist cred?
Posted by Rudolf Rocker: #4 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 4:13 PM
eat bags & bags & bags. showpaper informs you of cheap/free local music happening every week in the incredible city you ignore daily. also, there is nothing wrong with showing off your slim legs / snogging hot, arty girls with style / conserving cloth. may brooklyn chew you all up and shit you back out in connecticut.
Posted by which is funny: #5 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 4:25 PM
'cuz half the fucking hipsters I meet are from Connecticut!
Posted by bleh: #6 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 4:30 PM
if you would like to see a copy of showpaper rather than simply dismiss it, there's one on the door of wallach 9a1 and copies to take inside the suite.
Posted by get rid of...: #7 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Get rid of your fucking granny glasses, Juli Weiner, and then we'll talk.
Posted by snog: #8 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 4:56 PM
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Posted by actually...: #9 (in reply to #6) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 4:57 PM
I would rather dismiss it out of hand. Arg! Ad Hominem! Ad Hominem!
Posted by but: #10 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 5:18 PM
i really like her granny glasses. she is one of the few girls who can actually pull them off.
Posted by The King of Spain : #11 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 5:19 PM
I learned it best from our cousin Henry of England: there is nothing sexier and more noble than a well-turned calf and a beefy thigh. Skinny legs are for troubadours.
Posted by cs1: #12 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 5:24 PM
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Posted by are you kidding: #13 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 5:28 PM
those glasses are HORRIFIC.
Posted by hahaha: #14 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Agreed. Juli, stop trying so hard all the time, then maybe you can have an ounce of legitimacy when you knock hipsters. Which goes for the rest of Bwog, too.
Posted by real brooklynite: #15 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 6:05 PM
is crying inside.
Posted by hmm...: #16 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 6:11 PM
who keeps proposing to split cars in half? is it you, Terrence Bollea?
Posted by ggg: #17 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 6:14 PM
i like hipsters. at least they don't walk around in sweat pants and columbia t-shirts all the time. it's fun to see people who make an effort.
Posted by Bethmann-Hollweg: #18 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 7:00 PM
This is actually a fine post.

I almost cry when I walk into a class and see rows of girls in sweatpants and a North Face, while guys line up in their Columbia football or "Senior Fund '08" t-shirts.

And Morningside Heights is never going to be a hipster haven. It's arguably one of the worst neighborhoods in New York, after the Financial District and Midtown.
Posted by The King of Spain : #19 (in reply to #16) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 7:06 PM
Actually, Damian Hirst is doing it as a homage to Gordon Matta-Clark.
Posted by You sir: #20 (in reply to #18) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 7:30 PM
are a hipster douche. Your taste in neighborhoods gives you away. Fly, fly you hipster douche! Shoo!
Posted by false: #21 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 7:32 PM
glasses are very easy to pull off, and most girls do so several times a day: I've never heard of a girl who doesn't pull off her glasses before she goes to sleep.
Posted by wait: #22 (in reply to #18) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 7:34 PM
I like the idea of someone who cries at the sight of people wearing comfortable clothing
Posted by anonymous: #23 (in reply to #18) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 7:59 PM
Psh, I'll take the Financial District over Morningside Heights any day - less riffraff hanging around down there.
Posted by is anybody else: #24 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 8:06 PM
really bored with the whole "hipster" debate? why does this particular social scene attract so much attention? hipsters love attention and everyone, despite whether or not they support or abhor them, is just feeding their egos.

boooooring
Posted by Anonymous: #25 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 8:30 PM
I don't get it...hipsters don't even HAVE hips.
Posted by yup: #26 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Bwog seems to be obsessed with hipsters, leading me to believe that bwog is composed of wannabe hipsters who get back at the real ones by making fun of them. People don't care so much about them. Let them live their indie life and move along. Most of the time they stay in Brooklyn anyways.
Posted by Hey Bwog: #27 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 8:52 PM
I'm sad. I have exams. What should I do?

xoxo.
Posted by invisible_hand: #28 (in reply to #23) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 8:53 PM
is anonymous #23 the new tao tan?!?!
Posted by anonymous: #29 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:00 PM
Yeah, I agree with #26...

I'm just wondering why white people seem to always find other white people's styles weird, when all white people dress really badly anyways.
Posted by confession: #30 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:05 PM
I have a confession to make...I actually have no idea what or who a hipster is.
Posted by Rrright: #31 (in reply to #18) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:11 PM
Wow you're an idiot. Morningside Heights is one of the worst neighborhoods in New York? It has beautiful pre-war buildings, enough restaurants and cafes to satisfy anyone's cravings, and a concentrated population of highly-educated people. And there are a lot of people who can't afford this neighborhood anymore who would love to live here instead of you, so shut up and go back to your half-the-cost-of-the-cheapest-studio-in-this-neighborhood dorm room.
Posted by Well: #32 (in reply to #25) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 9:42 PM
The thighsters actually live up to their name.
Posted by whatever..: #33 (in reply to #31) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:01 PM
this neighborhood sucks balls. overpriced restaurants, shitty bars, NO ENERGY.

may as well rename the school "columbia university in the township of south westchester"

and i don't understand the hipster obsession. THERE ARE NO HIPSTERS AT COLUMBIA. seriously, hipsters are usually found in areas that are fun. this neighborhood hates fun.
Posted by EAL: #34 (in reply to #18) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:11 PM
What a poor excuse for a Columbia student. Typical hipster trash: no school pride at all, and you knock all the "Establishment" areas of Manhattan, though I'm surprised you omitted the Upper East Side. You're just another one of those people who come here and then describe how bad the place is and the people, as if the only reason you came was because it was in New York. Columbia would be better off without people of your ilk. Go take your tight jeans and converse-wearing self back to NYU and stay there.
Posted by EAL: #35 · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:12 PM
and the people are*
Posted by agreed: #36 (in reply to #33) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:29 PM
"seriously, hipsters are usually found in areas that are fun. this neighborhood hates fun."

hipsters arent that bad when you dont overthink them and they dont overthink themselves. they like to party and have a good time, which i dont think is such a problem

Posted by ugh: #37 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
December 18, 2007 at 10:53 PM
the amusing thing is that i think i could compile a list of ten or so people who are likely to have written this, all of whom try pretty hard at many things that juli weiner does naturally and effortlessly. she is earnest and brilliant in a cesspool of desperate and insecure morons.
Posted by #30: #38 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:03 AM
...and I still don't know what a hipster is. Does it have something to do with jeans?
Posted by last time i checked: #39 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 12:36 AM
people have been dropping off stacks of showpapers at Kim's since this summer?
Posted by james: #40 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 1:39 AM
n williams is a barrel of gelt.

i want to put him in my pocket and watch him melt.
Posted by Hahahaha: #41 (in reply to #37) · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 2:04 AM
What are you, her boyfriend?!
Posted by nice: #42 (in reply to #37) · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 7:40 AM
the word "earnest" is a beautiful compliment!
Posted by That picture: #43 · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 2:31 PM
is from the Onion. I believe there is a new movement happening where the "new hipsters" focus more on criticism, less on creativity and whose knowledge is so concentrated in one specific, unimportant area that they know close to nothing else.
Posted by lolz: #44 (in reply to #41) · reply · track
December 19, 2007 at 10:51 PM
hahahahaha, you're right, it IS hilarious to be nice to someone, what a loser right.
Posted by diehipster: #45 · reply · track
January 8, 2008 at 2:24 PM
www.diehipster.com
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