Jesus is that the epitome of hipster wankerism, Bunch of retards in their lamest halloween costumes ragging shopping carts around wicker park. I saw these fucksticks on saturday wandering around the neighborhood. Some retard with a boombox hooting and hollaring past my house, all excited to be gussied up like he was back in 5th grade and Miss Chacetti was grading his spider-man costume. Hipster bull shit.

My suggestion for next year, more fatalities.

"Jesus is that the epitome of hipster wankerism, Bunch of retards in their lamest halloween costumes ragging shopping carts around wicker park. I saw these fucksticks on saturday wandering around the neighborhood. Some retard with a boombox hooting and hollaring past my house, all excited to be gussied up like he was back in 5th grade and Miss Chacetti was grading his spider-man costume. Hipster bull shit.

My suggestion for next year, more fatalities."

Chicago: serious business.

If you hate hipsters, maybe move out of Wicker Park?

Do hipsters still live in WP?

Haven't they been priced out yet?

Maybe one day ...

They've moved on to Logan Square in time to be priced out there too. Pretty soon they'll be in Norridge.

Food for charity and good clean fun. You would do the same thing.

I had a ton of fun volunteering this year. Lots of booze, lots of cool costumes, and everyone was pretty nice.

Also, you keep calling them hipsters, but I definitely wouldn't. Maybe in the broad sense; but they weren't the Rainbo-hanging, grandpa-sweater-wearing, ironic mustache types that I think of when people cry hipster. They were more laid-back, BM, freaky-stoner types.

SOMEONE has some sand in their vagina...

I am not a hipster nor am I from this area. No one on my team was from this area. We are not wealthy and we volunteer our time at other events often, including that same day.

This however was a great fundraiser that brought in a massive amount of food and fun. I had a great time.

Plus there was plenty of fighting and injuries to be had if that is the only thing you care about.

Sorry to repeat myself, the server was slow.

ANYway, I had fun. :)

It's baffling that someone's weekend could be ruined by so much hilarity. The sight of the Mario Bro's running down the street, a bunch of clowns hoolahooping a camel, the cast of top gun and their fighter jet... If you can't laugh at these things you need to reexamine your life philosophies. Since when did "hipster" become a euphamism for "people having fun?"

Hey Reina78, why are you lying like a cheap rug at an expensive whorehouse? What other charity work did you and your outlier non-hipster, not-wealthy, friend to all the beasts and kind to all the bees do on saturday? Bullshit on you and your friends. You got stoned and wandered around annoying people but now you're mother theresa and gandhi shagging louis pasteur.

Fighting? What did one of the boys steal another boys tampons? Did some of the girls disagree over which track from the Juno soundtrack was "Awesomest?" Did someone get in the way of a photograph that was "totally going to be my new icon for facebook"? Was an iphone dropped?

I want these people hunted for sport, killed and fed to the poor.

lol @ simplecreature.

So now, everybody that has some fun on the weekend is a hipster?

When did you become the old jaded lame one that bitches, complains, name-calls and wishes death on everyone?

When?

I should move because these assholes decided to move here about 10 years back with their boho bullshit.

More like 15 and PLEASE stay where you are: Not in my neighborhood. We've got enough jags as it is.

You know what, from my dealing with hipsters, they are always talking about how much cooler they are than the mainstream and how everyone else doesn't get their music or their fashion.

How is it that you aren't the hipster, simplecreature? You want the racers to dress all like you and listen to music calmly that you'd like? Are you so much better than those people because they just don't get what the right thing to do is?

Grow up.

Hipsters are parasitic. They offer only the regurgitation of memes (robots, superheroes, rockers, ninjas, pirates...boring) as creativity. They cull from the history of fashion and trend to create a precious, delicately constructed aesthetic that exists only perpetuate a sense of coolness.

John Lydon said that punk died when everyone stopped showing up dressed how they pleased and started dressing "like punks". The fact you can spot these dipshits so easily is testamane to their bland sameness. Their preening effete bohemianness is built on a consumer culture that extends adolescence well into adulthood (and terrifyingly enough, parenthood, see "Alterna-dad") and serves only to maintain a sense of self-satisfaction. Essentially their argument is Masturbation is easier than sex.

They contribute nothing and surf the monoculture, desperate for meaning. Flickr is filled with pictures of nothing worth documenting. Myspace/Facebook are monuments to self-importance that make the pharoahs of Egypt look humble by comparison. Twitter and SMS provide constant updates on the vast free time alotted these individuals by their inherited wealth and exploitation of the lower classes.

So you spend a weekend racing around like children in garish costumes obstensibly "for charity". Fuck you. Fuck you for your apathy, your generational wealth and lack of responsibility. Fuck you for being more interested in whose costume looks better than in the real issues facing society. Fuck you for arranging the deck chairs while the titanic sinks.

Perhaps proper war to sort these people out. Sadly it's the poor and uneducated getting maimed and killed in our brushfire wars. I'd love to see the crowd at raindo getting limbs blown off or the fuckheads at ragstock under suppressing fire. But hey, they have a "End the war!" banner on their blog! That's doing something right?!? Yeah!

Hyperbole is so cute when it's taken seriously. And critics are so funny when they've got nothing but words to put up against the actions of others.

"And kill all those idiots jumping in Lake Michigan yesterday to raise money for Special Olympics! Fuck those retards!"

Everyone please note: the only way to do something charitable is to work a soup line wearing an itchy burlap sack and grumbling about the high price of Apple stock.

Someone grew up poor and bitter. Probably so poor their parents couldn't afford to HUG them.

Hyperbole is so cute when it's taken seriously. And critics are so funny when they've got nothing but words to put up against the actions of others.

Pull that fortune out of a cookie did you?

You know what charity is? It's giving because people need, not because it's fun or you get some crazy fun experience out of it. It's generosity because there is a lack of something. You give because you have and someone else doesn't. You don't expect a pat on the back or a prize or even acknowledgment. You want a parade because you fed someone? Fuck you. The louder someone is about their charity the lower your respect for them should be.

But that's beside the point. These fuck sticks didn't do this "for charity". They did it because it's goofy hipster fun. The charity is a canard, a macguffin, a way for them to cloak their bullshit in something meaningful. That way when people say "What's the fucking point?" they can sneer and say "it's for charity man!"

You want to give something, go give it. Don't expect praise for it, or take pictures of your generosity or twitter your kind acts. Just fucking do it already.

Oh and you people really can't take a joke can you.

I've been taking the piss people. After reading all the nonsense arguments on with spav1 and wardup and the like I decided to see what being a troll was like.

It's hard work pretending to be that acidic.

For the record I think the Chiditerod is funny stuff.

:)

Well this wasn't where i wanted to go to, but ignorance should be combated.

First off, i didn't join in the race for charity. That was an added bonus. I did it to have a fun saturday and to promote my theater company.

I do give to charity on my own time, so way to go making grand assumptions. I find it difficult to believe that of the 400 plus people who attended this weekend's event, I'm the only person that donates to charity outside of the chiditarod.

Here's a link to something called the eight degrees of charity: http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/rmbmzdkh.html

Maimonides was smarter than you, so no use disputing him.

And for the record, the urban iditorad is something that occurs in a few other cities, and Chicago is the only city to turn it into a charity event. So you can cry and whine all you want, it's still something to applaud.

Holy shit simplecreature, we get that you arent a fan of hipsters, but damn! Usually when Im having PMS that bad I try to stay out of the way so I dont sound like a fool dropping the F-word all over, even if you are making valid points in between your swearing, it makes you look like an asshole.

I can't believe this post got 45 Comments already.

Plumbum82:

Isn't it funny that hating on something gets like 10x the amount of posts as something positive?

Really, if I wrote what I really think (which is how cute the thing is) we'd have 5, maybe 6 posts.

Sparky: We live in conformist times, despite the colorful outfits some of us might wear, or all the Web sites we can visit.

I think we need someone that cantankerous more often!

Haterade? Someone should cut your throat and fuck the hole for using that word.

I nominate this for "quote of the week." Can someone at Chicagoist make it happen, please? A "quote of the week," and perhaps a "dick of the week" as well? That's just what we need around here...

Oh Pinko, calm down, twas all in good fun.

"Quote of the week" and "dick of the week" would be all in good fun. I was merely tipping my hat to your colorful choice of verbiage...