Ask a Hipster
Dear Hipster: Would it be possible to ironically drive one of those mondo lifted brodozer trucks, or is that too on-the-nose for even the hispterest hipster? — Charlie I once had a hipster friend who …
Dear Hipster: I have been working in the service industry for several years, and I consider myself a consummate professional. Recently, some office-worker friends of mine and I were having a discussion about work, and …
Dear Hipster: What are some non-hipster things that are secretly (or not so secretly, considering you will publish this for all the world to read) revered and enjoyed by even the snootiest hipsters? — B. …
Dear Hipster: If aliens invaded the Earth tomorrow bent on our destruction, who would be the best person to act as a diplomat on behalf of the entire world? — Tycho, Hillcrest I’m weirdly flattered …
Dear Hipster: When are you going to cover that mugshot of yours in the Reader with a mask? You could just draw one on that supposed likeness of you. — Sam King, El Cajon You …
Dear Hipster: If a vampire ate too many hipsters, would it suffer any ill effects? — Chad If vampires were anything like normal humans, which they might well be if they existed, then they would …
Dear Hipster: Rose (rosé?) wine: hipster, trendy, or merely pretentious? — Kate There are exactly two mainstream wine drinking positions that account for something like 98 percent of the people you will find raising a …
Dear Hipster: Concerning your article about the North Star, the North Star is not exactly above our North Pole. It is about 1 degree off the true North Pole. You mention taking a time lapse …
Dear Hipster: Although I love dining out, I haven’t been to a restaurant since March. At first, everything was closed, and I spent all this time pondering when I would be able to go and …
For whatever reason, I receive a steady trickle of bizarrely ordinary inquiries. I suspect people fire them off for no other reason than that they can. How can something be “bizarrely ordinary,” you ask? Aren’t …
Dear Hipster: I’ll probably out myself as an aging hipster has-been here, but I have to ask: is there a word for the feeling you get when you hear kids talking about stuff that used …
Hey Hipster: Maybe I’m losing my mind because I’ve been locked out of my Amazon account for a week, and have thus been deprived of all the mindless streaming video entertainment that might distract my …
Dear Hipster: I was reading the twitface newsfeed nonsense about Elon Musk and Grimes naming their baby a string of alphanumeric characters. Now, I don’t really care one way or the other about celebrities vying …
Dear Hipster: Considering the ubiquity of pandemic-related news coverage, which has even started to infiltrate something as innocuous and not-particularly-newsworthy (no offense, obviously) as Ask a Hipster, I thought I might throw you a bone …
Dear Hipster: If I were to spend my quarantine trying to master an incredibly complicated game (you know, the kind of thing everybody always says it takes a lifetime to master), would it be cooler …
Dear Hipster: You may be too much of a young’un to remember the tribute album craze of the 1990s, which really extended well into the Aughts, but I sure do, and not altogether unfondly! Some …