When I lived in Brooklyn, I used to tell people, "I like my part of Brooklyn, because it's cheaper than Manhattan, but there aren't too many guys trying to dress like Beck."
I suppose I could have said, "Not too many hipsters."
Ohhhh, hipsters. The Urban Dictionary has — I am not kidding — 169 definitions of "hipster." Some of them agree on certain points ("indie rock," whatever you take that to be, and a fondness for Pabst Blue Ribbon, which was news to me). But lots of them are completely contradictory. Hipsters either know a lot about music, or they don't know anything about music; they're always in bands, or they always pretend they're in bands. They spend a lot of time on their looks, or none at all, and they eschew consumer culture or maybe they spend all their time at Starbucks.
Oddest of all, they are ruining cool because they are self-consciously image-obsessed. (Though honestly, isn't complaining about having "cool" ruined for you the most self-consciously image-obsessed thing imaginable?)
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