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          How can you be a Hipster if you aren't using a Hermes 3000?
                                        
Jeff Cuscutis [1] commented on my post “The Hipster typewriter is no Hermes
3000 [2] (at MyFaceGoogleSpaceBookPlus):

> The whole thing is ugly. If you really want the hipster writing experience,
> get a real portable typewriter. Then you can annoy your fellow coffee shop
> patrons.
> 

And then he linked to this article about someone who annoyed fellow Intarweb
users with his portable typewriter:

> I definitely look like someone who is a bit insane. That’s how I thought of
> it, before I clicked to look at the hundreds of replies; I figured people
> were probably wondering why I would bring my typewriter to a park. And when
> I started reading the comments, I saw most people had already decided that
> I would bring my typewriter to the park because I’m a “XXXXXXX hipster.”
> Someone with the user handle “S2011” summed up the thoughts of the hive
> mind in 7 words: “Get the XXXX out of my city.”
> 
> Illmatic707 chimed in: I have never wanted to fist fight someone so badly
> in my entire life.
> 
> Leoatneca replied: Bet 90% of his high school did to. It’s because of these
> guys that bullying is so hard to stop.
> 

“I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything - The Awl [3]”

While he may look like a Hipster, he's far from one—for crying out loud he's
using a 1979 Royal Safari portable typewriter [4]! No Hipster would be caught
dead using that. Now, had he been using a Hermes 3000 [5] … 

[1] http://spinthecat.blogspot.com/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/03/11.1
[3] http://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-was-a-hated-hipster-meme-and-then-it-
[4] http://typewriterdatabase.com/1979-royal-messa-safari-model-
[5] http://mytypewriter.com/hermes3000of1958.aspx

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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