An Angry Rant: Costumed Hipsters

First panda protests, then lame pageants, and now kickball feuds. I'm glad that there isn't a presidential election or financial crisis to be concerned about. God knows that I don't have anything against kicking back for a bit of frivolous fun, but fighting over pirate flags and protesting your right to dance in a panda suit makes Williamsburg look like the lamest liberal arts college in the universe. What's next, a rally for more affordable frisbees?

Either everyone from NYU is moving just a little farther down the L train, or some members of my generation are simply stuck in some kind of childhood time warp. It makes sense for college kids to make a big deal over stupid things like kickball rivalries and botched faux-beauty pageants--they are 19, their parents still pay their rent and they are going to move to a different city in three years anyway. But if you are 25 and the most urgent concern in your life is whether or not that other kickball team was totally hatin' on you, then you need to start doing something useful with your life.

I understand that I am generalizing. Most people I meet in Williamsburg don't act like college sophomores and are actually very nice people. But if you have ever been greeted with an eye roll after telling someone you live in Williamsburg, you can probably blame the hordes of juvenile pandas and pirates.

Comments

[al]

getting overly into some kind of nonsense can be 'frivolous fun' too. i mean, just i dont' know if there was some kind of insane incident you're referencing, but getting real into a rivalry doesn't mean you aren't doing some good with the rest of your life.

[Patrick]

this picture does not look like any park in Williamsburg, but looks exacly like the corner baseball diamond at prospect park.
Fake picture. Fake article.

[D]

yeah, that's prospect park. Considering this, you need to change the tile of the article from hipsters to hippies...

[a]

it's the McCarren Park Pool.

[Heather]

ugh.... I will tellyou what is even worse then getting an eye roll from someone after telling them you live in WB. Telling someone you are a native NY'er from Bushwick\Ridgewood region and having these out of town transient hipsters roll their eyes at you.... Like I should be happy for them moving here and crowding the L line. Thanks for the galleries and the nice eateries, but remember, little hipster turds, YOU did not create them.

[D]

whoever said this is the pool is completely retarded.

[nana567]

Fuck all the hipsters. I wish I could send them all to an island far far away or the midwest. Just because you try to act like a freak doesn't make you one. At the end, it seems that they are just average white trash that need to make themselves feel more different and special then everyone else by acting and dressing a certain way. In the end, they are all the same. Keys on outsides of pants, skinny jeans, speaking as if they really don't care in that drawn out way. New York has always been about being real. I look at this people and they are filling our neighborhood with cookie cutter personalities. Meanwhile most of them probably have their mommies and daddies paying the bills. F..k you hipsters and grow an original f..king personality or get the F..k out of NYC.