Friday, April 14, 2006

Zeitgeist Phrasology

Our friends over at The Goo went through some pretty serious histrionics to prove to the world that they were indeed NOT hipsters, yupsters, yipsters, or any other derivative. I give them credit, but what they should have done is just make up a new category for themselves!

Over on DCist today, I stumbled across yet another apparent niche in the social strata. This one was coined by IndieCognition, describing himself. Without further ado, here it is, your new socio-descriptive zeitgeist phrase:
superliberal, new-age, indiehippie

Wow. I have included an artist's interpretation of this phenomenon as a visual aide:

cartoon by nataliedee