"Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

[Fletch]

Ok, what is the 20%?

That which might suggest to impressionable readers that self-denial is an end in itself, when it sometimes isn't even a means to an end.

 

[ButteMT61]

This is one interesting thread...ironically.

 

[Feraud]

Ha ha at first glance I thought you wrote hamster!!!

Helpsters pre-date our hapsters but didn't gain any ground.
This labelling business is getting complicated..

 

[SHOWSOMECLASS]

This is a repeating theme.
Yes, rejecting previous values is not bad. Yet we should retain the values-positive that benefit, the people, public and nation. Yet think looking to the future and family and its individual components.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Well, there's always the man with the patent leather tonsils, the one, the only, the dime-store Harry Richman, the cut-rate Jolson himself, the amazing Sid Garry!

[video=youtube;R-DI5hMcVbI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-DI5hMcVbI[/video]

Sid was so cool he got to make records with Duke Ellington. Now that's hip.

[video=youtube;v_jQ3GjAdIo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_jQ3GjAdIo[/video]

WOW!! A fake Harry Richman!! lol I love this!! He's mainstream now. Can anyone tell me about "Virginia Burt"??
http://archive.org/details/dhawaii1923

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've come across that name in old issues of "Billboard" -- if I'm remembering right she was a vaudevillian before she started making records, and the steel-guitar thing was her stage specialty, in an act where she appeared with a couple of actual Hawaiian guitarists.

Here's evidence she was appearing on radio as early as 1922 singing novelty tunes as well as doing the Hawaiian guitar bit. Judging from the caliber of the talent on the rest of that bill, she was traveling in some pretty accomplished circles.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Nice! That hawaiian guitar impression is impressive and hilarious at the same time.

The History of Canned Food. Sorry, I found that lol And that "isolated invalid." Oh, how I love the languge used in written media back then.

 

[Undertow]

She?

SHE?

I, sir am NOT a "she". Haven't that much sense, I'm afraid. Would have thought that my malenes would have ben quite
apparent in the silliness of my postings.

I thought you had a woman in your avatar at one point. Of course, my memory is best served cold and runny, so I have no clue if it was yours or another.

But I'd always thought you were a lady based on your avatar.

Or wait...maybe that was someone else's...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Helpsters pre-date our hapsters but didn't gain any ground.
This labelling business is getting complicated..

To say nothing of "hopsters."

 

[Flicka]

To say nothing of "hopsters."

Bunnies... We all know they're just former "hamsters" with longer ears. Pfft. Can you say "trying too hard"?

 

[Feraud]

Too funny! lol

 

[Undertow]

God I love rabbits. That is easily my single greatest weakness.

And that rabbitt picture is absolutely too cute.

 

[Flicka]

God I love rabbits. That is easily my single greatest weakness.

And that rabbitt picture is absolutely too cute.

I have a vague rabbit phobia. First it was seeing Watership Down at 6 - I was terrified and wanted to leave but my older sister refused to budge so I had to sit it out - and then, later on, we've had a massive rabbit problem where I live. When you've seen them fighting with rats over scraps of food, they're not so cute anymore...

 

[sheeplady]

I have a vague rabbit phobia. First it was seeing Watership Down at 6 - I was terrified and wanted to leave but my older sister refused to budge so I had to sit it out - and then, later on, we've had a massive rabbit problem where I live. When you've seen them fighting with rats over scraps of food, they're not so cute anymore...

Watership Down is one of my favorite movies, but it is so not a children's movie despite being a cartoon about bunnies. I'd love to show it to my future children, but I think they'd have to be about 10 because of the graphic violence.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I have a vague rabbit phobia. First it was seeing Watership Down at 6 - I was terrified and wanted to leave but my older sister refused to budge so I had to sit it out - and then, later on, we've had a massive rabbit problem where I live. When you've seen them fighting with rats over scraps of food, they're not so cute anymore...

Well rabbits are rodents after all.

 

[jamespowers]

That which might suggest to impressionable readers that self-denial is an end in itself, when it sometimes isn't even a means to an end.

Is that Hipster talk?

 

[Fletch]

To me, it's a position acquired thru wearisome real life experience.
But if your experience is different, yeah, I suppose it's hipster talk.

 

[vitanola]

I thought you had a woman in your avatar at one point. Of course, my memory is best served cold and runny, so I have no clue if it was yours or another.

But I'd always thought you were a lady based on your avatar.

Or wait...maybe that was someone else's...

I only JUST added an avatar a few days ago.

Before that I had intended to remain a cipher, but I certainly cannot imagine coming across as a distaff member of the lounge.

Show me the gal who learned to drive on a flivver, collects records and old junk, and refers to her husband or boy friend as her "Better Half".

No lady would do that because it would be so transparently untrue.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I collect records and have since I was 9 years old. Not 78s, though. I would if I had a means to play them because I see them in thrift shops ALL THE TIME. When it comes to old-time music I tend to collect them on Mp3 format. I know it's not the same, but it's the only way I'd get to hear them otherwise. I have quite a few LPs of 30s music that were made in the 60s or 70s. Unfortunately, that's all I can play!

I'm one of those rare female record/music collectors and I like to know all I can about the artists/singers and their discographies

 

[MikeBravo]

Have I ever posted this blog before? Has anyone? Did I first see it here?
Whatever.
This blog is wonderful.

http://unhappyhipsters.com/

Now where were we, 36 pages later?

Oh Yes, I have been following it for some months now

Regards,
"The Happy Hepster"