{"product_id":"the-hipster-handbook-9781400032013","title":"The Hipster Handbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hilarious book that will teach you everything you need to know to be too cool for school: \"Your official guide to the language, culture and style of hipsters young and old.\" \u003ci\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehip-ster - \\\u003ci\u003ehip\u003c\/i\u003e-stur (s)\\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term \"cool\"; a Hipster would instead say \"deck.\") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Clues You Are a Hipster \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 1. You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 2. You frequently use the term \"postmodern\" (or its commonly used variation\"PoMo\") as an adjective, noun, and verb. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 4. You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 5. You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 6. You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 7. You bought your dishes and a checkered tablecloth at a thrift shop to be kitschy, and often throw vegetarian dinner parties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 8. You have one Republican friend whom you always describe as being your \"one Republican friend.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 9. You enjoy complaining about gentrification even though you are responsible for it yourself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 10. Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 11. You own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400032013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2003 pg. 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2003 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/03\/2003 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/28\/2003 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/02\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Robert Lanham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44112759980213,"sku":"9781400032013","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_268647fd-5669-4ae7-b572-d9dfbb90438e.jpg?v=1715053565","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-hipster-handbook-9781400032013","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}