Oh well, whatever, nevermind....

I'm amused by the Redeye today...

Hipster Safari

Dunno why they finally got around to dissecting the Chicago Hipster in the Redeye. It's kind of like when the New York Times writes about some "new trend in pop culture" -- like, I dunno, raves, or grunge, or rockabilly. It'll be something that's been going on for a very long time, and then the NYT suddenly "discovers" it.

Of course, the piece above is really just a bit of puff around "Stuff Hipsters Hate" -- a blog-turned-book written by a couple of 20-something chicks (themselves surely hipsters, since they puss out on self-identify as such "No one is 100 percent a hipster.") -- one Brenna Ehrlich (25, Northwestern grad), and Andrea Bartz (23, also a Northwestern grad). Andrea Bartz (l) looks like more of a hipster chick(tm) than Brenna Ehrlich. They seem phenomenally well-placed, jobwise (I mean, Psychology Today, SELF, CNN, and, uhhh, Heeb Magazine [?!], to name a few.), which certainly greased the wheels for them considerably in the publishing world.

But writing a hipster-bashing book now? In 2010?? Talk about shark-jumping!

Planet

This news about Gliese 581g is cool, although I wouldn't bank on anything in the constellation Libra. Still, pretty cool.