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Sunday, February 11, 2007

No More Dirtbags


“It’s sort of lost that dirtbag appeal,” said Isabelle Tihanyi, who with her twin, Caroline, started Surf Diva...“Now you see more yuppies in the water with a brand-new board and a brand-new S.U.V. — all the latest technical gear.”

What portion of the population likes things MORE when there IS a dirtbag appeal? I want a NYTimes article that reports on things that yuppies WON'T do still so I know what to be more interested in. I'm gonna write a controversial, David Brooks-style-book called, "Cultural Gentrification: Where Have All The Dirtbags Gone?" Who wants to help? Skateboarding, surfing, punk rock, drinking cheap beer, wearing hooded sweatshirts, car racing, house shows, fireworks, painting, backpacking through Europe, Bukowski novels, hamburgers....all of these things used to be the domain of the dirtbag and all of them have now been co-opted. I'm sure that the NYTimes style section has done a "hey, I bet you didn't know about this...well, now we just ruined it" article on every one of these subjects.

Stupid American capitalism. At least we have fantasy baseball.

2 comments:

Moacir said...

that computer is the balls.

ptb said...

bench is clearly the barack obama of this league. i'm quitting my job to go work for obama and secretly implement my hipster-murdering regime of hate.