What happens when Georgetown preppies try to figure out out how to hit on U Street hipsters? Answer: Pure comedy gold. (via Megan's lithe vegan blog)
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I'm surprised that so many people see a political angle to this. 
What do you mean, Thomas?
I'm glad I've never heard of Late Night Shots.
Isn't part of the humor behind sites like "Stuff White People Like" that a lot of white hipsters are actually "well-bred" prep school kids who went to good universities, often highly-ranked expensive private universities whose families' were rich enough that they could major in art history and comparative literature? I mean, look at Yglesias on this site. It's just amazing how clueless professional DC younger Republicans can be.
This site is now the #1 response on Google for "lithe vegan bodies". The rest are discussions of the same story. I find this very disappointing.
I wouldn't place this as political or "culltural wars." Think of it as the Clueless talking to the Bemused.
Reality Man has it right. If I had to write a list of the wealthiest people that I know, and a list of the most hipsterish/culturally bohemian people that I know, those two lists would overlap quite a bit. These guys base their goals and values on materialism and social-climbing, yet they are clueless about the markers of real wealth and social status. Sorry guys, ownership of a few polo shirts and a blackberry doesn't make you part of the ruling class. What a bunch of maroons.
I cannot express in words my volume of loathing for the LNS crowd. Stay in Georgetown and out of our bars, you d-bags.
"These guys base their goals and values on materialism and social-climbing, yet they are clueless about the markers of real wealth and social status. Sorry guys, ownership of a few polo shirts and a blackberry doesn't make you part of the ruling class. What a bunch of maroons. Posted by Mark in Houston | May 25, 2008 5:38 PM" Good point. If you look at hipsterish programs in the arts at Oberlin, NYU, Brown, etc., you will find a lot of prep school kids, kids who grew up on the Upper East Side, kids whose parents have an apartment in the city in SoHo or on Newbury Street that they go to on weekends to get away from Stamford or Wellesley, etc. Most of the kids I see on Facebook who have profile pics up of them wearing a pink polo shirt with the collar up went to publics, while very few of my prep school friends do. They are trying to look like they came from money, but instead are screaming nouveau riche (I've known way to many of these kids in college who would get all nervous when they would find out that a minority like me went to a New England prep school and could see through their BS). It's like yelling at the help, at waiters, etc. because that's what you think rich people do. There's a reason why the more annoying types of hipsters a few years ago wore trucker hats: to ironically look working class while also saying they obviously weren't. The LNS crowd apparently wasn't in on the joke.
I'm glad I've never heard of Late Night Shots. It's a DC club for pre-MBA Republican douche-bags.
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Posted by ed | May 23, 2008 4:29 PM