Robot Monkeys

I was called a “hipster.”

Of course, I was at DevHouse at the time, but the guy that said it wasn’t a loser geek. And I was wearing threadless shit and my custom Timbuk2 bag at that time. In fact, it was the bag that prompted the comment. (”Hey, you’ve got one of those bags. I see a bunch of hipsters have those. How is it?”) Geez, all I need is a fixie, and I guess I’m in total hipster horror. (Mark (Yes. That Mark Storer.) has a special hatred for hipsters on fixed gear bikes, and their ilk at Pergolesi.)

It just blows my mind. Jonathan Koren: “hipster.” Wow. What happened? Growing up I was pretty loser geeky. Not completely irredeemable, but close. In college, I hung out with pretty much just engineers. Not the loser geeks, but not the coolest kids by any means. As I told Andrew recently while watching “Superbad,” “As big of losers as these kids are, they are a thousand times cooler than I was in high school.” He was rightfully shocked.

I’ve always suspected that my taste in music sucks, and that I don’t own the number of CDs as someone should (This materialistic inadequacy comes from the fact that between 1992 and 1999, I owned a total of 14 CDs.). Now multiple people have asked for copies of my mp3 collection. What the hell?

I guess it just is more evidence that my Epiphany was correct. “Cool” is just an attitude.