Awesome Stuff I Loved in 2008
Websites that are bad for me: Facebook and Jezebel. Jezebel inspired this post.
Hard Liquor. In particular free shots won at trivia night at the Bucktown Pub and Bailey's during cards at R's.
Politics. Obama 08. Indiana goes blue. Minus Prop 8. Minus Blago scandals. Minus Bush's last minute policy bullshit.
Stephan's invented old-timey slang. We heard the term "jukie" in a song by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks and decided a Jukie was a music hipster. Then Stephan invented other categories of hipster: a Nick (nickelodeon) is a movie hipster; a Nick at Nite is a horror movie hipster; and a picture boxer is a television hipster. I am proud to be a picture boxer.
Green beans. The year before it was broccoli; 2008 was green beans.
Children's Book Club: highlights include Watership Down and Howl's Moving Castle. Book club has also helped me rediscover the Chicago Public Library.
Sewing class at the Needle Shop.
Pants that were not jeans: cords, my striped guys, yellow chinos, and Bitten canvas pants.
What's going to be awesome in 2009:
*More sewing classes at the Needle Shop and more book club.
*Horses. The birds/deer of the future. Vintage horse buttons on ebay would be a good start. See above.
*Trips to San Diego, Springfield IL, and Chapel Hill NC.
*The revival of cloth napkins. My roommate did this in college, and hence I did. Now I have some pretty new ones, and I'm reviving the tradition.
*Inauguration.
Hard Liquor. In particular free shots won at trivia night at the Bucktown Pub and Bailey's during cards at R's.
Politics. Obama 08. Indiana goes blue. Minus Prop 8. Minus Blago scandals. Minus Bush's last minute policy bullshit.
Stephan's invented old-timey slang. We heard the term "jukie" in a song by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks and decided a Jukie was a music hipster. Then Stephan invented other categories of hipster: a Nick (nickelodeon) is a movie hipster; a Nick at Nite is a horror movie hipster; and a picture boxer is a television hipster. I am proud to be a picture boxer.
Green beans. The year before it was broccoli; 2008 was green beans.
Children's Book Club: highlights include Watership Down and Howl's Moving Castle. Book club has also helped me rediscover the Chicago Public Library.
Sewing class at the Needle Shop.
Pants that were not jeans: cords, my striped guys, yellow chinos, and Bitten canvas pants.
What's going to be awesome in 2009:
*More sewing classes at the Needle Shop and more book club.
*Horses. The birds/deer of the future. Vintage horse buttons on ebay would be a good start. See above.
*Trips to San Diego, Springfield IL, and Chapel Hill NC.
*The revival of cloth napkins. My roommate did this in college, and hence I did. Now I have some pretty new ones, and I'm reviving the tradition.
*Inauguration.
Labels: book, fashion, kottke, politics, real life, shopping
posted by ant at 9:48 AM
2 Comments:
*R Comment*
This Alton Brownie thanks you and Computer for the fun slang.
Questions:
What is a fashion hipster?
What is a DIY hipster?
Stephan is sad that DIY hipster is not sufficient. We'll work on those though.
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