Evolution of the Hipster by Paste Magazine and HRO.

So Paste Magazine did this funny timeline evolution of the Hipster (see image above). It’s cool and everything, but this is where blogs like Hipster Runoff come into their own. Check it out. Maybe you have to be a regular follower of HRO to think it’s funny, but you’ll laugh either way. With it or [...]

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Gravity Brawl Finals Set List From Mon Voyage Neon

I’m pretty proud of the music at the Gravity Brawl and our comps in general (2008 SLC event not withstanding. Consider this a formal NE2C apology to the entire industry for hiring a DJ that played Kelly Clarkson. I fired myself for 2 days over that one). So in collaboration with the world-famous DJ Mon [...]

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Totally Dorked on Passion Pit

So you may remember TNKY’s tragically hip top ten albums of 2008 review from a few months back. Like many things that TKNY does it was so tragically hip that it made my eyes bleed and I couldn’t read the whole thing. It was tragic.
But lately I’ve been seeing the light on that list and [...]

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Jason Danforth on cover of Climbing.com

Subject: moms.
Doesn’t make sense to me, but we think he still looks hot.

The Hibernating Hipster Hardman Holiday Gift Guide

OMGZORZ! ONLY 7 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT!.. The Hipster Hardmen love Christmas! And we won’t lie, purchasing gifts for others is great, but shopping for ourselves is almost as much fun. So if you find yourself with some extra cash after purchasing presents for your dearly beloveds, check out some of these fresh items.

You cannot [...]

The Hibernating Hipster Hardmen Send Word From Their Lair…

Ah the Holidays. While everyone is all excited about mistletoe and snowboarding and greeting cards, for the hipster hardmen, it’s a time or reckoning. It’s all whiskey, cooking, shopping, and “culture” till the spring. Trad climbing season is long over and its time to look back on things, or should I say music, past. Here [...]

The Unparalleled Efficiency of Small Business

Today I want to share with you a very special part of my procrastination routine: Achewood. Drawn by Chris Onstadt, this webcomic’s thoroughly developed characters (all of the main one’s have their own blogs), deadpan humor, and incredible dialog, warm my cold, dead heart on a daily basis. There is also a pathologically [...]