Obama Hipster Victory Dance

Expect to see this on the Gothamist frontpage tomorrow. I got off the L train and walked onto bedford ave, and people were pouring out into the street... people who make up our 20-something generation's zeitgeist. our 'thing' that our kids will look back on and think, "stuff was sure weird 20 years ago." so who are we? skinny jeans and soft wool sweaters and big scarves, and that nice boy Aelx P. Keaton haircut, and fitted military jackets and boots. what the hell are we? the fey, precious, gentle generation? what the hell is that? this is our urban New York City "thing"? Myt parents were all punk ruK CBGB 1970s, and here I am wearing a nice sweater with a good boy haircut and skinny jeans like we wore as kids in the 80s and early 90s. what generation was ever 'gentle and precious' as it's thing? we're so stupid. such a pampered, tooty frooty "thing". the last one had like, sarcastic teenagers. we have michael cera. grrrrrrrr

anyway these are the people ... the red state partisons think of as New Yorkers and hate us. and out into the streets these fey little things in their skinny jeans and big soft heavy wool jackets, lighting off fireworks, celebrating like this is the new day in a life ... and it's strange to think that this is The Moment of these people. the air that we breathe in is the air of this and these peoples' moment. is this ... our moment? are you with me breother?

society is in the gutter.

BURT STANTON ONLY YOU COULD LIVE THROUGH ELECTION NIGHT AS THE FIRST BLACK PERSON IS EVER ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WRITE AS YOUR RESPONSE A MULTI PARAGRAPH POST ABOUT HIPSTERS IN BROOKLYN

they are the people who failed to vote 4 years ago...

damn straight uncle shavedlungcock (max)

i can't w you're so nedyait to see the facebok updates. odes that work for you, max? huh? does it?

my god you are an insufferable cunt

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/04/21/culkin2_narrowweb__200x328.jpg

john justen i bet we once sat on a couch together and monkey town and watched some tooty fruity little art "thing". what is this crap anyway?

jlets just enjoy the ride. maybe we'll one day impress some fresh and delicate 21 year old, so new to the owrl,d yet so will ing to learn

"soft wool sweaters and big scarves"
"I am wearing a nice sweater"
"big soft heavy wool jackets"

BAA BAA BLACK PRESIDENT, HAVE YOU ANY WOOL
YES SIR, YES SIR, 4 YEARS FULL

LYSOL DOUCHE

.................. : } whoopi would've made it work

really burt get a scrip for lexapro or some shit, you bringin errbody down, maaaan

maybe you're right. thanks. i needed that

bitter stanton, clinging to hipsters

but really, is this our moment? is this -our american moment-? you know? like the last past 8 years belongded to those redneck bushies. now is it a time for us fruity npr listening, tea drinking little turds? what kind-of messes do you think this administration will get into? donating more money than they remember having to pbs, npr, and wfmu? "sorry guys w'ell have to raise taxe,s but at least we get to see John adams - dr. atomic livebroundcast courtesy of the met and trhe chubb group. '

you hate this. but really, you hate yourselves. yeah. there. chew on that for a while.

burt, ilx covers much more ground than the circle you're citing.

FAIL

: { close thread. i'm going to bed.

don't wake up.

late bloomer, i thought we were friends.

at least burt stanton has a singular "voice" -dude only you could've made this thread :)

one voice, one nation, one singular sensation

I sound awesome thanks to you. You're a good friend.

remember to check under the bed for hipsters!

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closet, too

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burt is not so much an insufferable cunt as he is like a dung beetle. There is something admirable about his devotion to his personal ball of dung. He never goes anywhere without it.

:():

>and here I am wearing a nice sweater with a good boy haircut and skinny jeans

you know, no one is forcing you to do all that: wear a sweater in november (MY GOD something NO other generation did!!!). you can move to san diego and wear board shorts and forget williamsburg still be a part of "this generation," you know -which you hilariously keep defining in largely sartorial-only terms with a minute geographical circumference

that and graphic design. i like colors

But really, this is our moment in the sun. Let's not disappoint the world!

here's another account: http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2008/11/barack_obama_ce.html

Surely this is the Obama Hipster Victory Dance?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2809373683_f15734a35b_o.gif

I actually cried tears of LOL.

It's the little bump-the-latte-glasses toast that makes it.

things got very very ugly, the police got outrageously aggressive, beating people up, needlessly, in what was a beautiful night. very sad.

Posted by: mary | November 5, 2008 04:59 AM

Ummm... You didn't stay long enough. Eventually the riot police showed up and started hitting people with batons and arresting anyone who stepped off the sidewalk. It was the most disgusting abuse of NYPD power I've ever witnessed.

And that was their reaction to a celebration.

I actually spoke to several of the officers who expressed their disdain for President Elect Obama, and it was clear they didn't consider it a celebration. Once the nice cops in uniforms left and the riot police showed up - they treated the voters who were celebrating like they were criminals.

Posted by: Michael | November 5, 2008 09:31 AM

If only that gif had music it would be perfect.

this joke is making the rounds:

Saint Peter's standing at the Pearly Gates (as he's generally wont to do unless he's cut short and needs to nip off to the celestial bog), and he's staring at the top of the escalator that leads to the gates, when a figure appears out of the mist and clouds.

"I AM SAINT PETER," boomed Saint Peter, whose once-famously loud voice was never really documented in that one book about Jesus, "Who goes there?"

"I am Barack Obama - first black president of the United States Of America" says the man.

"A black president in America?" says Peter, "Well I'll be! When were you elected?"

"About 20 minutes ago..."

that joke sucks

It's the arch asides that really make it for me

rum, aren't they?

that joke sucks

Brutal but true.

FWIW this is pretty much the only place I hang out 'at' where there hasn't been a prevalent meme of "lol who's taking bets on the date of his assassination" so, er, good going I guess!

Burt Stanton needs his own program called "Reports From The Field with Burt Stanton" where he can ponder things like this and no one will have to watch.

This is seriously like the first thing you thought of when Obama won?

oh jeez!

who you calling "fey"

you sound like the softest dude ever

whoa burt_stanton made a thread about hipsters

bookmarking for later, can't wait to sit down and read it

also last night was weirdly a bunch of "Ras-Trent"-esque hippie dudes banging on tambourines and chanting lame psuedo-political police-baiting crap. it's not like it was a bunch of model types huddled around a turntable listening to fleet foxes and smoking cigarettes

My expert analysis of all this is that burt_stanton does not have much luck with hipster babes.

the joke indeed sucks.

you guys don't get it, he is making oblique commentary about hipsters pulling the wool over their own eyes. the soft, colorful wool of their nice sweaters. wool clothing is for hipsters now, you see, and anyone who wears a sweater is a hipster. QED.

sturt_banton

¿ ? can u spot burt_stanton ? ¿

^right there.

But really, this is our moment in the sun. Let's not disappoint the world!

― burt_stanton groove machine (burt_stanton)

Ladies and gentlemen, the us electorate

BURT STANTON ONLY YOU COULD LIVE THROUGH ELECTION NIGHT AS THE FIRST BLACK PERSON IS EVER ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WRITE AS YOUR RESPONSE A MULTI PARAGRAPH POST ABOUT HIPSTERS IN BROOKLYN

― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max)

loll

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m75/overlookedover/emocapped.jpg

so was this dude 51'd to death or what

you hate this. but really, you hate yourselves. yeah. there. chew on that for a while.

― burt_stanton groove machine (burt_stanton), Tuesday, November 4, 2008

what does he mean by "big soft heavy wool jackets"? I don't get it. can somebody show me what this refers to?

cnn showed a bunch of hipsters celebrating in Los Angeles and I lol'd

http://cdna.lystit.com/photos/2012/02/08/band-of-outsiders-navy-hooded-wool-coat-product-1-2852541-583183614_large_flex.jpeg

just finished dancing

also i remember this thread from 08 and messaging burt asking if he wanted to come join me and some friends at a bar