Notes Toward a Weekend Update

[pantryslut]

1. imnotandrei's birthday, celebrated in traditional style, with brownies and board games and suchlike. Also, this year, bagels. And we snuck out for dim sum in the morning as well.

2. Customer at Beauty's Bagels trying to order two dozen bagels at noonish makes me wonder when we stopped calling them "yuppies" and started calling them "hipsters" and why we don't just stick with "entitled pricks." I am actually trying to let go of the lazy tendency to attack the ill-defined "hipster" as the root of all ills, especially in regards to gentrification issues. Also I don't think the dudebros of tech are properly considered hipsters any more. Anyway.

3. Kids will eat leftover gai lan in their lunchboxes. WIN.

4. Simone had a play date with her special friend; April coped with being left behind admirably.

5. Homemade fish and chips on Sunday. I am out of peanut oil but it was for a tasty, tasty cause.

6. Lots of good company all weekend. It made me smile.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

1. Sorry I missed it.
2. "Hipster" seems to be the designation for people who either believe they are, or who really, really want to be "hip." It goes without saying that "hipsters" are thoroughly unhip. (What is "hip" may require a "Notes on Camp"-type article. The one thing that "hip" is not is insular.) Real hipsters would give dudebros short shrift.

[pantryslut]

I think we should have a brownie (and boardgames, even) make-up date.

[metaphortunate]

Today in hipsters.