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FOR MOM
A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE!
Greetings from 2010 to the distant futures archeologists, the excavators of half-realized time capsules and our potential alien overlords.... Congratulations! You have truly made a wonderful discovery on this day!
Welcome to Hipster Puppies, the inaugural recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Snarky Animal-Based Captions, Toilet-Tank Division. Id like to thank you in advance for actually reading the humble introduction to this tome. Traditionally, the people of my era use this time to rapidly flip through the pages and mutter indignantly about how they could have just as easily written this shit.
Id like to tell you a little about my life in 2010. I live in a borough called Brooklyn. It was originally settled by the Dutch, which is why its inhabitants are colloquially called variations on the archaic term dutchbag. In 2010, Brooklyns poorest and most listless citizens rule. This is because we have long since abandoned paper money in favor of a makeshift economy made solely of cocaine, toothy blow jobs and cred. Our national language is smugness. A city council meeting unanimously agreed that our motto should just be a pair of rolled eyes, which we lovingly stitched to a flag made of American Apparel hoodies, party flyers and beard lice. Our state flower is fuck this shit.
If our citizens have one thing in common, its that we all loathe being called hipsters.
Currently, lexicologists have confirmed approximately 48,000 different meanings for the word hipster. The one most agree on is anyone who cares more about music and fashion than me. In Brooklyn, we say hipster about 300 times a day, upending words like would and which in the list of most commonly used words in the Brooklyn-English vernacular.
In other parts of our country, making fun of hipsters is a national pastime. I would gladly tell you about the rest of America, had I ever a reason to leave Brooklyn for any reason whatsoever. According to the folk tales passed down from the leader of my food co-op, the rest of America has things like Burger Kings, non-free-trade coffee, fat people and sincerityall of which sound completely terrifying! I have heard foul rumors that citizens in outer-Brooklyn often go entire weeks without eating a falafeland many would actually pay less than $40 for a haircut. My frail bones would quake at the very thought were they not nearly dissolved from years of recreationally abusing psychotropic drugs.
To capitalize on Brooklyns self-loathing and the rest of Americas irrational hatred of us, theres a booming industry of cultural studies textbooks about the hipster phenomenon. Books like Look at This Fucking Hipster,
The Hipster Handbook and Stuff Hipsters Hate are dry and completely humorless accounts of our humble civilization.
The book you hold in your hands is different since it has the added value of including cute pictures of dogs. (Dogs were animals we had domesticated and kept as companions before the recession forced us to use them as food.) Writing this book has been an unending joy. Entire days of my life were spent looking at pictures of adorable pups until I broke my awwww bone.
So read this book with an open mind, an open heart and an open wallet. And please remember that hipster puppies are people too.
Now, if youll excuse me, this unemployment check isnt going to cash itself.
Farewell and who gives a shit,
Christopher R. Weingarten
Associate Professor of the
James Murphy Memorial Institute
for Hipster Studies
Brooklyn, New York
hanzo is a graduate of the school of lifeand a dropout of the pratt institute school of art and design
sasha says shes freegan but honestly just likes eating from the trash
sure, paddington will tell you why wes anderson is a total hack, got an hour?
barney is more concerned with dynamic range compression and the loudness wars than the fact that he has shitty taste in music
frequently used words that pippins iphone autorecognizes: douchenozzle, douchery, artfuck, jagoff, assholery
mandy considers herself a francophile because she owns two daft punk records
these are juless dress chucks
annie is the mom of her squat since she does dishes and owns dishes