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Animus Collective: Hipster Backlash Hits the Heartland
No longer the preserve of coastal metropoles, hipster resentment has hit America’s breadbasket. The St. Cloud University Chronicle recently featured the piece, “10 Ways to Spot a Hipster,” which adumbrates for otherwise oblivious Minnesotans signature features of this novel species, which has recently invaded the area. The piece’s author, Joe Froemming, offers handy tips on [...]
Look Homely, Angel: Susan Boyle's Frump Trumps All Comers
We at Generation Bubble applaud Susan Boyle’s recent well-earned success on Britain’s Got Talent. Her bravura styling of a familiar show tune demonstrated emphatically to a packed house of Her Highness’s subjects that, yes, plain people can be gifted — which, given we’re talking about England, is no mean feat. The judges’ incredulous expressions — [...]
Bubble Sexy: Funky Cold Edema
The body is the last refuge of the hopelessly confused. Related Posts:Bubble Culture: MC Hammer Flash Mob Proves Capitalism Is 2 Legit 2 QuitUpwardly Mobile Home: Clayton Inc.'s Pre-Fab(ulous) "I-House"Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: May-Day Tidings from Generation BubbleBubble Baron: Pimp BizkitAnimus Collective: Hipster Backlash Hits the Heartland
Unbroken Social Scene: Greatly Exaggerated Rumors of the Hipster's Demise
Rob Horning at popmatters.com’s Marginal Utility offers a terrific review of the “What Was the Hipster?” forum held recently at the New School. The event, an initiative of the journal n+1, involved a panel discussion of the journal’s editors, who, apparently putting out of their minds for the moment their publication’s own hip cachet, came [...]
Reality Bites: Whole Foods and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Delimited-beforehand grocery purchasing options, which come courtesy of the cultural logic of late capitalism, are likely exacerbated by such entities as Whole Foods, but this may just mean that the terms and conditions under which smug, sanctimonious people express their smugness and sanctimony have shifted. The world will always have its a-holes; the only relevant question is whether they wear Puritans’ somber fustian or treehuggers’ earnest hemp.
Bubble Baron (1)
Generation Bubble proudly announces its latest feature, “Bubble Barons,” in which we celebrate Generation-Y playaz with trashy dreams of easy millions and even easier sex (Big ups for the photo to Sorry I Missed Your Party, our favorite Flickr pickr): You know the type: + 2.0 GPA from a sun-belt state university (Summa Cum Party); [...]
Not so Lonely Swedish: Ikea as Economic Engine
Via Tampa Bay Online comes this Tampa Tribune story on Ikea. A veritable whale shark of the big-box ocean, Ikea has come to attract smaller interests looking to attach themselves remora-like to its blue-and-gold bulk: It isn’t just fans of European furniture and Swedish meatballs who are awaiting Ikea’s opening. Other stores likely will ride [...]
The Twitter End
Celebrities have been kickin’ up a twit-storm lately. The Examiner reports that, last Thursday, Demi Moore saved a fan from suicide through her Twitter page. The fan, known as “sandiguy,” sent a tweet to Moore saying, “I’m just wondering if anyone cares that I’m gonna kill myself now.” Moore responded with supreme sang froid, heroically [...]
Hipster Runoff's Carles Out to Halt Those "altBros"
The ever-incisive Carles, presiding genius of Hipster Runoff, manages in this post briefly to peek beyond his culturally autistic Williamsburg, Brooklyn into the wider world. He offers a series of solemn reflections on the recent G-20 Summit and its attendant dissidence. The unwonted gravitas adorning Carles’s commentary makes you wonder if you’re witnessing the early [...]
Nothin' from Nothin' Leaves Nothin': Amoral Hazard in Less Than Zero
The release of Gregor Jordan’s cinematic adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Informers signals the latest example of what we at Generation Bubble like to call “Bubble Visions” — artistic engagements with the 1980s and beyond, years of bubbles puffed and popped from which we haven’t looked back. One early entry in this category is [...]
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