I, too, may be “just too old to get it,” but I think Rob Walker gave today’s hipster youth too much credit in his interesting article (July 30). I think what he describes is a new breed of entrepreneur rather than a new artistic or social movement. I’d argue that wearing a Hundreds or Barking Irons T-shirt is no more revolutionary than wearing a Ralph Lauren polo emblem or a Lacoste alligator — it merely announces membership in a smaller, perhaps cooler, clique. What are these new brands trying to change but where we buy and how much we pay for T-shirts? Offering a fashion alternative to kids looking to express their individuality is not art; it’s just good business.

johnny jihad

Informal names for unknown or unspecified persons in various countries/regions

but anyway, it's not a book for you, it's a book for medium depressed people

"Alles war gut, bis er gesagt hat: Sit on my face."

"Die Zahnärztin, die mir erzählte, dass sie aus Berlin weg ist, weil dort jetzt zu viele Russen sind. Während sie in meinem Wurzelkanal steckte."

"Sollten wir nicht ein Weblog gründen, das Beim Penetriertwerden gehört heißt?

"we are professional grey"

Executive summary: The drinking man's Billy Joel

If you don't care for it, go fucking Yahoo.

Kursiv: André Glucksmann ist Philosoph.

But kids like Alair and her friends are in the process of working up their own language to describe their behavior. Along with gay, straight, and bisexual, they’ll drop in new words, some of which they’ve coined themselves: polysexual, ambisexual, pansexual, pansensual, polyfide, bi-curious, bi-queer, fluid, metroflexible, heteroflexible, heterosexual with lesbian tendencies—or, as Alair puts it, “just sexual.” The terms are designed less to achieve specificity than to leave all options open.

rite de passage: die erste richtige handtasche zum 18. geburtstag.

[memory lane: oh bitte, darf ich einkaufsberaterin für deine tochter sein....]

fun ist ein schaumbad

demo-peer

guardian > Excuse me, weren't you in the Fall? Mark E Smith's band is legendary for its ever-changing line-up. Dave Simpson made it his quest to track down everyone who has ever been a member

[auto]biographie: durch gespenster waten

heiraten mit derrida

"verwenden Sie auch pseudonyme?"

renegade author

hi everybody. i will be down tonight for some hours.

die geschmacksbildenden klassen

a member of the clean-plate society

"meine österreichische dns"

A generation ago, adult children visiting their parents' homes might have left with a Tupperware container of lasagna. Today, many of them stealthily make off with toiletries, groceries, sometimes clothing and even furniture. It is an apparently widespread practice, born of a sense of entitlement among young adults - and usually amusedly tolerated by parents - that gives new meaning to the phrase "home shopping." Like most adults, the pilferers have set up their own households, but they seem not to have given up the expectation that their parents should provide for them in certain ways. They loot their parents' houses to cut costs, or because they would rather not pay for incidentals. Or because they want things with sentimental value.

Sometimes the children ask if they can take things. Often they do not.

silly little reconstructed things can make you cry