The Dream of the 90's...

[olyclimber]

the dream of the 90's is just another sentimental trip people of my age are taking when they realize they aren't cool anymore. they are now over 30 and realizing they can no longer even trust themselves, given their prior standards (just like the generation before didn't trust anyone over 30, and the generation before that). but you can take a vacation in the Themepark of Cool known as Portlandia, and relive those golden oldies.

 

was that the Sleater Kinney girl wearing sweats with spam? Remember when Olympia was cool?

[olyclimber]

now where did i put my false teeth

[G-spotter]

When Jeff Bridges played Jeff Lebowski, he wore clothes from his own wardrobe.

[olyclimber]

so for Dru, cool is a form of zen. there is no spoon. its Keanu Reeves type cool.

[G-spotter]

coolness comes and coolness goes (witness thick-framed eyeglasses) but the eternity of zen is like the perception of time by a photon.

 

a photon is given off by a distant sun, travels for a billion years to earth, and impinges on your retina, but to the photon, the creation, journey, and arrival occur simultaneously.

[olyclimber]

coolness is an entity obscured by perception. the sun doesn't revolve around the earth. coolness is constant, your vision is what changes.

[olyclimber]

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[Jim]

If everyone were like me life would be too boring.

 

If only you knew how to visually assert your uniqueness through a tightly proscribed set of widely shared clothing, hair, and eye-glass frame options employed by millions and millions of other people to do the same thing.

 

When "hipster" theme parties become the new 70's parties this jig is up. I hope.

 

 

Does this mean I'm actually hipper than I think I am?

[olyclimber]

you would know, so probably not

[olyclimber]

most likely you don't exist on the pyramid of cool. but i won't worry about it unless that matters to you.

[tvashtarkatena]

Hip is one way to measure the gap between what a person is and what a person thinks he is. Cool also measures that same gap, only with diametrically opposed scoring. Neither can accurately be measured by the person themselves - unless the hip/cool scores are then going to be swapped by a third party observer.

 

 

[G-spotter]

So since Popeye says "I yam what I yam", there's no gap and so he's both hip and cool.

[tvashtarkatena]

Wrong. Hip requires a gap. The garage mechanic with lily white hands. White rasta.

 

Poppy is not hip, even as a tattoo.

 

Especially as a tattoo.

 

 

[tvashtarkatena]

In fact, a tattoo instantly transforms an image from cool to hip. Assuming it was ever cool, which most are not.

 

Except smiley face tattoos. They have their own category.

Edited January 24, 2011 by tvashtarkatena

[G-spotter]

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