Hipster girl: … And then there was this other weirdo I dated who kept talking about how we’re all just molecules. You know, little balls of energy?
Guy: Yeah… That’s exactly where we came from — balls of energy.
–116th & Broadway
Hipster girl: … And then there was this other weirdo I dated who kept talking about how we’re all just molecules. You know, little balls of energy?
Guy: Yeah… That’s exactly where we came from — balls of energy.
–116th & Broadway
Hipster guy #1: We’ve been working on this kind of Flickr thing for cell phones for, like, a month.
Hipster guy #2: That might be kind of cool…
Hipster guy #1: No, it fuckin’ sucks. Nobody’s gonna use it.
–Chinatown bus
Wannabe hipster girl: Hey, are you going to that Arcade Fire-LCD Soundsystem show later?
Hipster girl in gold and purple-striped tights: Nah… I was going to, but [sigh] there are just gonna be so many hipsters there…
–L train station, Graham Ave
Overheard by: Not a hipster
Asian hipster girl: The first time I met you I totally thought you were gay!
Asian hipster guy: That’s okay. Everyone does — even my family.
Random hipster guy: Really? Me, too! [Hipster guys hi-five each other.]
–Bedford & N 6th
Overheard by: Marc P.
Nerdy hipster to friends: You want nerdy? You know what I did today? I worked on this robot helmet I’m making on my floor. Yep, a robot helmet complete with LED lights — for my girlfriend. See? That’s love right there.
Girlfriend, explaining: I told him we could have butt sex.
Nerdy hipster, emphatically: But not until I finish the helmet!
–L train
Young hipster #1: So, there’s this really smart kid in the tenth grade, and he wrote an extra chapter to Slaughterhouse Five, and Kurt Vonnegut is going to publish it!
Young hipster #2: Nice, man.
–Academy Records
Overheard by: x-tina
Hipster, looking at menu: Chicken fingers?
Corporate fashionista: Great! Even though I’m a vegetarian.
Hipster: Then why did you say ‘great’?
Corporate fashionista: I’ll eat some.
Hipster: … Then how are you a vegetarian?
Corporate fashionista: I just try not to eat anything with a face.
–Sidewalk Cafe, 6th & Ave A
Hipster to friend about passing gaggle of hipsterettes: Dude, tits — that’s all you’re staring at.
–Meserole St & Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint
Overheard by: napalm kitty
Hipster chick, about funeral procession: What the hell?! I need to cross!
Old goatee guy: Um, it’s a funeral.
Sensitive chick: Oooh, it’s a funeral.
Hipster chick: I’m going to cross anyway. Does that make me insensitive? [She and others cross.]Old goatee guy: Bitches.
–16th St & Prospect Park West
Hipster girl #1: I’ve never seen a fat midget.
Hipster girl #2: Oh, god, who would ever want to see a fat midget?! I’m sure they don’t exist.
–1st Ave, between 12th & 13th St
Overheard by: rpk
