*WE'RE RECLAIMING THE NAME, DAMNIT!*

"Hipsters, flipsters and finger poppin' daddies, knock me your lobes..."
~ Lord Buckley

NO TREND-FOLLOWING, DADDY'S-MONEY-SPENDIN', USERS OF THE WORD "URBAN" FOR THE URBANE, HIPPIE-WANNA-BE, SPOILED, CLUB-CRAWLIN', DIME-A-DOZEN, BLAND PANTY-WAISTS HERE!!!

We welcome all REAL hipsters... What's the definition?

hip?ster (hip?ster)
noun

[Formed from hip2 + -ster]

Slang.

1. a person who is hip.
2. hepcat.
3. a person, (esp. during the 1950s), characterized by a particularly strong sense of alienation from most established social activities and relationships.
4.someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle.

This can and does include all outside thinkers, surrealists, RAB guys 'n gals, sharp dressed, cool poets and musicians, jazz lovers, bebop kats 'n kittens, hepcats, outside thinkers, those who really don't give a shite what others think, quick witted, nifty folks from all backgrounds.

This does NOT include the annoying wankers with too much money to spend and little else to do but blow it in cheesy dance clubs sporting the latest trends and repeating shite they heard on Friends or blathering about what happened on whatever crappy-assed "reality" show they watched last night.

That means that if you have the gall to utilize and misappropriate the term HIPSTER (as much as you have the word "urban") and add friggin' URBAN in front of it, GET LOST! The urban thing be so nuthin' anymore, it ain't funny and it just makes ya look like every other cargo pant advertisement out there. You're as original as a GAP commercial and twice as boring as a COLORS magazine! - SHOO! BUGGER OFF!

The rest of you - you poets, musicians, thrift shop savvy, sharp as a tack in the best of ways folks - you know who you are! C'MON IN!!!

http://tribes.tribe.net/internationalhipstercoalition