I laugh at Portlandia, so maybe I'm close?
I'm already a black nerd, and there's a fair amount of overlap in the nerd/hipster Venn diagram. (Such as using Venn diagrams.)
Sometimes it feels as I teeter on the edge. But I think that, at the end of the day, I'm likely too square to be a hipster.
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It's as if I'm some kind of Hipster Two-Face, flipping a coin to decide how much cred I want to muster. New Wave music? '80s culture-kitsch? Thick glasses? Corduroy jackets and poplin shirts? Cult TV shows? Vintage clothes and pin-up retro chic? Repurposed and upcycled clothing and furniture? Oddball rock and roll? Liberal-to-progressive politics?
Yeah, I like these things.
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