hipâ?¢ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat. <P>Clues You Are a Hipster<P>1. You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration.<P>2. You frequently use the term "postmodern" (or its commonly used variation"PoMo") as an adjective, noun, and verb.<P>3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses. <P>4. You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded.<P>5. You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation.<P>6. You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine.<P>7. You bought your dishes and a checkered tablecloth at a thrift shop to be kitschy, and often throw vegetarian dinner parties.<P>8. You have one Republican friend whom you always describe as being your "one Republican friend."<P>9. You enjoy complaining about gentrification even though you are responsible for it yourself.<P>10. Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks.<P>11. You own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City. <P>From the The Hipster Handbook<BR>By Robert Lanham
