Here’s Aimee Mann illustrating the unfortunate cultural phenomenon of Homely Hipster Glasses (HHG). These are the chunky glasses that hipsters wear that make an otherwise attractive person look like they’ve been hit a few times with the ugly stick. If it can happen to Aimee, it can happen to you.
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mr. whipple
Here’s another.
kd bart
It provides cred.
stuckinred
Not if you start out ugly!
Omnes Omnibus
Membership badge?
Oscar Leroy
etc. etc. etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/politics/08impact.html?ref=david_kocieniewski
stuckinred
Jesus, there’s even a website for this! Hipster Hardon Glasses Party
Fuck U II: The Duckening
OMFG, STFU! Pop culture is popular? GTFO!
Next you’ll tell me that in a couple of years they’ll be wearing something completely different. As if.
bartkid
I always thought of them as a SGR, Shallow Guy Repellent.
Maody
I like Steve Martin’s hipster glasses. He’s so cool. There’s the HULU guy too.
WyldPirate
@Oscar Leroy:
So that’s just fucking awesome.
Obama is such a good deal maker he cut a deal that raised taxes on the poorest people in the country.
Excuse me, I’m going to go get Occaam’s razor and cut my wrist, because Obama is just fucking stupid for letting that shit happen.
Welcome to the land of Neo-feudalism, boys and girls.
ETA: And on top of that he cut payrool collections which will give the jackals on the right the impetus to fight against raising them. So he undoes past “fixes” to Social security.
Excuse me,m Obama isn’t stupid–he’s just a dumb motherfucker doing the work of the Republicans. And this is the best we can do ?
mr. whipple
@stuckinred:
LOL.
Omnes Omnibus
@Oscar Leroy: @WyldPirate:
I know it is an open thread and all, but is there any possibility that we can have a thread the doesn’t turn into a two minute hate?
CaptainFwiffo
She was great on BtVS.
burnspbesq
FBI does it again, this time in Baltimore.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bomb-plot-arrest-20101209,0,2395055.story
I’m really curious about the extent of email interception and analysis that enables them to find guys like this and the guy in Oregon.
WarMunchkin
So, since this is a recession and all, someone here must have some good ideas on how to live in a place without heating or insulation. Anyone?
KCinDC
@WyldPirate, while I am worried about how Republicans will use the payroll tax holiday, I would point out that Republicans and the Very Serious People have already effectively undone the previous “fixes” to Social Security. Workers have been paying extra payroll taxes for many years now, supposedly building up a surplus for the lean times for Social Security, but now when SS starts needing to draw on that surplus we’re told that it’s just a meaningless IOU from the government to itself and there’s no legal or moral obligation to repay it. If that’s the new view of things, then workers have been defrauded since 1983 to keep income taxe rates low, and they deserve to get a little back.
Steve
Aimee Mann and Michael Penn are one of the most talented musical couples in existence.
Dork
And here I thought “Aimee Mann” was Ann Coulter’s nickname.
JWL
Three Questions: What else defines a hipster (other than HHG’s)? Do they share any intrinsic qualities with professional liberals? What so differentiates them from the herd that some people can immediately recognize them, while others remain clueless?
Enquiring minds want to know.
WyldPirate
@Omnes Omnibus:
I might consider that if I don’t see any of the normal suspects with their lips glued to Obama’s anal sphincter show up and try to defend this fucking abomination of a “deal”.
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: I will I will!
gil mann
I’m sorry, what?
I mean, Aimee Mann’s (no relation) got eyes of otherworldy beauty, so okay, maybe she’s in that 99th percentile of people whose faces don’t benefit from accessorization, but since when are nerd-specs not recognized as a legit fetish?
Sorry, this is just a weird post, like saying “ewww, thigh-highs.”
TheMightyTrowel
This is oddly cute and trenchent… Taibbi’s Vampire Squid comes to life in a 1 min animation.
If you’d rather give me hits, I blogged it here.
Omnes Omnibus
@JWL: I could tell you about the characteristics, but they are so obscure that you’ve probably never heard of them anyway.
stuckinred
@JWL: google
Danny
My girlfriend wears glasses like that. Every time she takes them off it’s like a scene from “She’s All That”.
Linda Featheringill
@WarMunchkin:
How far north? It might be impossible without heat.
stuckinred
@JWL: They are the kind of people who say “I’m well” and “What now?”. Little creeps.
amk
For all that bitching & moaning from poutraging professional left, the dem base is unmoved.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1822/poll-bush-tax-cuts-start-treaty-boehner-pelosi-afghanistan-korea
Time to bash the base now ?
zmulls
Hey, I *like* glasses on a lady. Hipster or not. When did this become a bad thing?
David Fud
Ummm, maybe they don’t want to be judged by their extraordinary good looks, and thus don the hipster glasses. Drunk guys yelling from the audience would encourage me to try things to tone down the hormones if I were as talented as she is. Hipster glasses might be good for that.
stuckinred
@David Fud: Maybe she needs them to read the teleprompter!
Omnes Omnibus
@David Fud: I have to go through life being judged by my extraordinary good looks; why shouldn’t she be subjected to the the same standard? Fair is fair.
KCinDC
Hey, look, it’s a Unity08-like group saying that if only people could set aside their political beliefs and agree with the “sensible” centrists, the country would be great! No doubt they have a serious sad that Bloomberg isn’t going to run for president.
Checking out their “About Us” pages, I see the Talking Points say:
But in the Declaration it says:
So they’re not centrists, but the believe in governing from the center. Thanks for clearing that up.
Rosalita
@zmulls:
I appreciate guys like you and my boyfriend. Contact lenses get old after a number of years and I can’t.see.shit.
Ash Can
@burnspbesq: I’ve long suspected that Obama’s disappointing stance on wiretapping and eavesdropping has to do in no small measure with concern for his own family’s safety. If mine were the first black family to occupy the White House, young children and all, and I inherited a system that made it significantly easier to keep tabs on all the KKK-type wackos popping up like fetid mushrooms, I’d be profoundly tempted to keep it in place.
Violet
@WarMunchkin:
Move to a warmer geographical location.
Get a space heater (a safe one, not some really old one that will set your place on fire), block off all other rooms, and live in only one room. A space heater should be able to heat up one room if it’s smallish.
Visit your local Salvation Army or Goodwill store and buy up any cheap blankets they have, if they have any left. Cover floors and windows to keep heat in.
Stay with friends or family who do have heat.
Always wear a warm hat and socks.
mr. whipple
@David Fud: That’s it exactly. I make myself look as homely as possible so that women aren’t too intimidated to approach me.
Svensker
So my stupid engineer wingnut cousin is trumpeting a Townhall piece saying that Wikileaks “vindicates” the Iraq War because of some memo that mentions that moldy old chemical weapons were found. Is it possible to crawl through cyberspace and strangle someone?
Yeah, the hipster glasses thing. Question for everyone: are the models used in glasses ads meant to look stupid and vapid in their glasses? Or is it just me?
lacp
@KCinDC: No Labels? Aren’t they the same people who sell fake designer clothes?
debit
I wear reading glasses like that because they’re comfortable.
Marmot
Those hipster glasses aren’t even particularly big. Now this is the kind of thing that makes me wince in incomprehension.
Svensker
@Marmot:
Are big glasses making a comeback? Pretty please? The little skinny ones that have been all the rage the last 10 years make me look like a dyspeptic llama and since my skinny little glasses are trifocals (I’m old, OK?), I have about 1/8″ for each vision band. Bigger would be so much more attractive, not to mention practical.
stuckinred
@Marmot The brothers gots some blinders!
burnspbesq
@Ash Can:
Maybe, but if I thought we were making policy on important issues based on a story arc from “The West Wing,” I might be slightly unhappy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Marmot: 1983 called, it wants its glasses back.
Rosalita
did anyone see this shit? These people are despicable!!
Violet
@Marmot:
The 80’s are back, baby!
tomvox1
Chunky glasses on ladies are sexy as hell. Chunky glasses on me help me see. Whaddya want us to wear–Ben Franklin wire rims? These glasses were good enough for our fathers and mothers and grandmothers and grandfathers in the 50s and that wuz the Greatestest Generation Evuh! Also, too, they were good enough for Goldwater so obviously you hate America. Pinkos.
J.W. Hamner
The only reason to wear glasses is to make a fashion statement… wearing mundane glasses is more incomprehensible to me than thick frames: just get contacts if you want to be boring.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Oscar Leroy: And if Reid had done his job we wouldn’t be having this discussion. He hasn’t been able to muster anything useful, and that leaves the president, who does not want to see middle and lower class taxes go up, having to talk to McConnell with only tool he has: compromise. The longer this goes on, the more I’m just going to get pissed at the Senate.
stuckinred
@Rosalita: No worse than the scumbags up in here yesterday hammering her.
burnspbesq
@Marmot:
Everything about Taylor Swift makes me wince in incomprehension.
That’s a very 80s look. Straight hair and big glasses = woman trying to look more professional than the men in a workplace that’s hostile to women. Ask any woman you know who practiced law in the 80s what they had to do to keep from being mistaken for support staff.
Culture of Truth
Jobless claims down but still 421,000
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@tomvox1: There’s a picture of my dad, when he was stationed in Vietnam, wearing his BCGs (birth control glasses). He was so skinny that it looks like the glasses might tip him over.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq: Melanie Griffith in Working Girl.
jeffreyw
Yay! Vista is swept away! Win 7 is this house! And the Nook no longer causes BSD on this laptop. Yay!
Rosalita
@stuckinred:
they are using a funeral to make a point, and they do it to our military guys. to me that’s a little more off the charts the the wankery around here. just my opinion.
WyldPirate
@KCinDC:
so instead, it’s a good idea to rip another big hole in the fund to increase the rate of the fraud?
ok. nice to see Obama working for the people.
You don’t need any more evidence what a fuck up this deal than watching the Rethug pundits praising Obama.
EriktheRed
Personally, I think Lisa Loeb looks just fine in those glasses.
Tattoosydney
Because I like it so much I just don’t care, a song I have already posted in the dog thread – Adele – Rolling in the Deep. A cracker from one of my favourite voices.
The Moar You Know
@WarMunchkin: Depends on where you live.
I learned a little trick in Tijuana back in the day (believe it or not, it gets savagely cold – 20s to 30s – in the winter there at night).
Lock yourself in a small room.
Take cotton ball.
Place in bottlecap full of alcohol.
Ignite. It will burn the alcohol very, very slowly, and will raise the temperature of the room to above freezing, which is really all you need.
Disclaimer: you can probably die from CO poisoning if you have anything more than a LITTLE flame, or if the room’s airtight. This is how the Mexicans do it. It’s not how I’d do it, but then again I have insulation.
Another poverty trick – you can insulate with carpet. Now, carpet is filthy and my least favorite thing, but you can nail a bunch to the walls and it will insulate. Putting it over the window is especially effective, that’s where most of the cold air seems to come in.
Boy, writing all this down takes me back to the days when I was poor and homeless. Forgot how much that sucked. Good luck, WarMunchkin.
stuckinred
@Rosalita: I’ve stood against them on the street.
chopper
@WyldPirate:
too late now anyways. you jokers broke the seal.
Rosalita
@stuckinred:
good! next time give them the finger for me too.
stuckinred
@stuckinred: ps, they are using their shit to make a buck not a point.
The Moar You Know
@jeffreyw: I may be the only person who had a successful Vista experience, but I gotta say that Windows 7 is pretty damned awesome. Switching my people here over as quickly as I can.
Amir_Khalid
Be glad it’s not the kind of glasses that come with a big nose-and-mustache combo attached.
On second thought, I would love to see hipsters start wearing those.
Annelid Gustator
@gil mann: Yep.
Marmot
@stuckinred: I take back that bad thing I said about you. That was awesome.
mr. whipple
@WarMunchkin:
My advice: move in with a rich person, or start collecting cats. A herd of several hundred cats wrapped around one at night will keep you snug as a bug in a rug.
Marmot
@burnspbesq: Just please tell me it doesn’t come with shoulder pads this time!
WyldPirate
@amk: @amk:
Don’t you think that the Pew poll might have picked up a few Republicans that might be pleased with the Republican President in the White House.
He gives them their tax cuts….
He continues their wars…
He spies on his own people..
He puts out hits on them…
He protects the bankers…
He negotiates a HCR, but tacks on in a backroom deal an doubling of patent protection for certain classes of new drugs for Big Pharma…
Meanwhile,, health care premiums go up by 10% again this year and will the next and the next…
And then, while doing all these things that the Rethugs like, he sets himself up for him and his party to be bludgeoned by them in ’12, while being unable to exact any sort of political price for the profligacy of the Rethugs that caused much of this economic crisis in the first place.
This isn’t “hope and change” and “Yes we can!” attitude that I voted for. It is more like “same old shit but even worse” and “No we can’t!”.
stuckinred
@Rosalita: It was a bitch, I was with a bunch of Rolling Thunder/Gathering of Eagles vets but they were disciplined and made sure from the get go that we didn’t go kick the living dog shit out of the weasles.
Annelid Gustator
@gil mann: moreover, that’s two great tastes that go great together.
jeffreyw
@The Moar You Know: Vista was working for me, too, with some exceptions: The Nook, the odd memory card reader or two. Most frustration came from getting the “you don’t have permission to do that” and I’m all what the fuck you mean?–It’s all of it my shit!
Chyron HR
@WyldPirate:
The figures that were quoted are from the “Democrat” column of the poll responses.
amk
LOD calling out the POS called landrieu.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/#40560774
amk
@WyldPirate: Too lazy to read the link? Read it and weep.
arguingwithsignposts
If your blood isn’t boiling yet today, this will make it so: Wall Street quietly creates a new way to profit from homeowners’ distress.
Marmot
@Svensker:
Oh yes indeed. The uber-hipster set has been experimenting with them since at least 2008, and like leopard print in the ’90s and the “ironic” moustache, they’ve paved the way for a horrible society-wide roll-out.
PS There is no such thing as an ironic moustache.
mr. whipple
@amk:
Also: “Republicans and Democrats had differing levels of enthusiasm for each part of the deal. Eighty-five percent of Republicans favored extending the tax cuts but only 43 percent supported extension of unemployment benefits. Eighty-four percent of Democrats backed extension of unemployment benefits, while only 52 percent backed extending the tax cuts.
By contrast, independents were strongly in favor of both elements. Sixty-seven percent backed extension of the tax cuts and 71 percent supported extending unemployment benefits.”
So, Obama gains huge among indies at the expense of the .001% internet left who already hated him. Man, that’s a tough call.
The Grand Panjandrum
This just makes my day. (WARNING: Links to Politico)
Now why is that?
I guess it depends on what the definition of “is” is.
stuckinred
I don’t suppose it’s dawned on anyone that Mrs Moose is all down with big ass glasses too.
WereBear
@WarMunchkin: Layers. Layers of layers. Microfleece is awesome for that; light, easy to wash and dry in a sink, comfy, and doesn’t make me want to tear my own skin off because it’s not wool.
But if you don’t have a wool problem it is the way to go. Two thin sweaters equal more than one thick one. And you gotta have some kind of thin layer next to your skin. And a hat. A good hat and you won’t believe the difference.
Then, get an electric blanket and some grippy clips and wear it. There’s some concern with electromagnetic fields right next to your skin, so I’d cycle it off and on as needed; it’s no more than what the thermostat does. It will also get you to the point that you can sleep and maintain body heat; don’t sleep with it on.
And yes, I’ve survived poverty; why do you ask?
Sentient Puddle
@Marmot: I have problems with keeping up with hipster culture (both because I don’t want to, and because they make it so blasted difficult to make any sense of), but is this why I see pictures of people drawing mustaches on their fingers and holding them up to their lip, making them look like total douchebags?
amk
@mr. whipple: I think you’re missing a zero there.
Marmot
@Sentient Puddle: Yep, that’s part of it. And those aren’t drawings — they’re tattoos. The other part is that lots of them are total douchebags.
Culture of Truth
Trying to think of an appropriate pun referencing “Bridge Over The River Kwai,” since in that movie Alec Guiness memorably says at the end “What have I done??”
Joe Max
My very pretty teenage daughter left for school today wearing a pair of big, chunky, 3-D glasses frames with the lenses removed.
“It’s the Poindexter look, dad!”
Culture of Truth
While it may seen odd to wear socks and layers and a hat to bed, it works – that’s why the guy in twas the night before xmas is wearing a cap and his wife a kercheif
WyldPirate
@Chyron HR:
OK, cool. Thanks for the info.
trollhattan
Aimee could wear Groucho glasses and still be unapproachably hawt. Also, too, Elvis Costello, the early years, offered blessed relief from stadium-rock hair bands, disco stars and be-pierced punkers. His hornrim look, of course–lifted from Buddy Holly.
Also, also, too, Fox News has language police? Hoocoodanode?
http://www.tnr.com/blogs/jonathan-chait
WyldPirate
@amk:
No, not too lazy. I simply overlooked the link at the bottom.
While those numbers are from the self-professed Dems in the survey, I think it is a bit of a stretch to say the “Dems are unmoved” from these particular data.
First of 23% of the Dems in the survey said he is cooperating too much. that’s a pretty significant percentage of Dems.
Secondly, this survey was conducted before Obama doing his dirty work for the Rethugs:
It doesn’t seem to be a worthwhile gauge of what Dems think of the Tax deal at all now does it?
JohnR
@Danny:
Yeah, I think MrMX missed the point – it’s all about (a) defensive ugliness, and (b) the “wow!” effect when they come off. Or maybe I’m just rationalizing here.
JohnR
@The Grand Panjandrum:
Redefining what you’re loudly against is GOP SOP. They get the best of both worlds because nobody ever calls them on it.
dj spellchecka
perhaps i shouldn’t admit to knowing this but there are entire websites dedicated to naked women wearing glasses….
luminous muse
Aimee Mann writes some of the most intelligent pop songs today and makes great sounding records. I couldn’t care less what glasses she wears, but judging from clips I’ve seen she lacks a certain juice live. But maybe that’s part of the hipster thing.
Rincon Blue
When they issued this kind of glasses in Basic Training, we called them BCGs for Birth Control Glasses. Because, you know, no-one will ask you out if you’re wearing them.
sneezy
@J.W. Hamner:
“The only reason to wear glasses is to make a fashion statement…”
Unless you’re the kind of person who needs glasses but doesn’t make fashion statements (that latter group is awfully big).
“just get contacts if you want to be boring.”
My vision can’t be corrected with contacts. I have to wear glasses, much as I hate them, and I don’t make fashion statements.