Two Broke Girls was just the “I’m young and I’m underpaid, I’m tired but I’m workin’ yeaah” line from Alanis Morrissette’s Hand in My Pocket grown up and connected enough that someone gave it a chance to break out

So when I was noticeably more new to Portland I heard people saying of Mississippi Street “oh, that’s the hipster district”

And I was thinking “wait, there’s a non-hipster district?” (ok yes, but I never go east of 60th and only make it south of Powell or up to North for a few pinball bars).

So I went and I realized what they were getting at - it was a “New Brooklyn” theme park.

The condominiums, the halfway-there construction sites stalled by the downturn, older properties a great deal if you can actually finance the rehab.

The stores were so twee, so full of bicycle-commuting, stroller-pushing urban planners even by Portland standards, which holy shit.

The gay bankers and other new money with a “suave and restrained” (which is to say upmarketed) take on the lifestyle branding of 10 years ago, who are just sooooooo haughtily proud that THEIR 10 years ago was 2002.

The well-imagineered bars where you overhear the new generation of old money comparing their European vacations.

Oh shit it’s

NEOCOLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG

man I’m going to be proud of that for weeks.

Molly McAleer once told me I wasn’t a hipster, she had a really detailed and correct taxonomy and I was actually an indie kid. Which, yes. On the other hand, there used to be freaks and beatniks and jesus freaks and SDSers and new agers and all that but in the end they turned out to all be hippies, you know?

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (Chrome Canyon remix)

From the Australian Defamer. There’s an Australian Defamer? There’s an Australian Defamer still? Apparently.

Molly McAleer once told me I was the first person in LA to recognize her, outside Safari Sam’s where she had done a video bit for Defamer at a lesbian party a few days earlier.

Later she kicked me out of her apartment and life for telling her that she was one half eastside, one half westside, and one half lace curtain Irish, and none of the halves made sense together.

Also then I said that E on Entourage was terrible and Ari was the only respectable one, which I knew from the internet was pushing her buttons but was true.

Also this means now I just have to get Molly Young to tell me off to earn the trifecta.