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is Mr. Hipster? Mr. Hipster is an angry young man who is easily upset by stupid people, bad service and dudes in braided belts. does Mr. Hipster have any formal culinary training? Mr. Hipster spent four years in college deciding between the meximelt and the whopper. sometimes he would opt for both. does Mr. Hipster prefer one kind of food over another? Mr. Hipster will eat anything that is free. he will eat anything he can pronounce, and even some things he cannot. he doesn't particularly like boiled fruit, cabbage or anything that is pickled or has the word loaf in it. what kind of alcohol does Mr. Hipster drink when he is at these swanky bars? Mr. Hipster likes beer, jack daniels and ginger ale and Ketel One and soda. while in ireland he grew to appreciate the pleasures of guinness, but he usually sticks to the lighter stuff. during the warmer months, he will imbibe the occasional gin and tonic. he drinks red wine around friends, but would never order a glass at a pub. does Mr. Hipster smoke cigarettes? Mr. Hipster feels tobacco impairs one's taste buds and makes one's clothes smell like a cheap motel. Mr. Hipster is from a land far away where the government has made it illegal to smoke just about everywhere, so he is used to a smoke-free environment. this, however, does not stop him from standing with dozens of fire breathing hooligans in poorly ventilated rooms every weekend. can Mr. Hipster get into those fancy velvet rope clubs? Mr. Hipster doesn't want to brag, but he knows a thing or two about velvet ropes. as a teenager, Mr. Hipster worked at a movie theater and often had to put up the velvet rope to keep families from storming the theater to see double impact and ferngully. so, no. does Mr. Hipster wear designer clothes when he paints the town red? Mr. Hipster is not a label whore. he will occasionally don a pair of gap carpenter jeans and a banana republic v-neck, but he leaves his sassoon and sergio valentes for special occasions. has Mr. Hipster's social calendar slowed down as he's gotten older? Mr. Hipster is ageless. if there is a beer to be drunk, a fajita to be stuffed, or a party to be attended, Mr. Hipster is there. he no longer goes to bad UES bars to drink 25-cent beers on thursdays at 5 p.m., does keg stands, or drinks red shots anymore, though. Mr. Hipster needs his rest. is this a complete list of all the places Mr. Hipster has ever been in nyc? not even close. Mr. Hipster only decided to share his wisdom with the world a couple years ago. there are about four years worth of restaurants and bars that you missed out on. even at the beginning, Mr. Hipster didn't think places like taco today deserved to be in his survey, so he skipped them. today everyone has an equal chance to make the list--even mr. wang's wonderful taco today. why should i listen to anything Mr. Hipster has to say? you don't have to. Mr. Hipster doesn't care. but, Mr. Hipster considers himself the ultimate new york hipster, despite the fact he lived on the UES for seven years and doesn't own anything made by prada. what is Mr. Hipster's favorite color? green. like cash. if Mr. Hipster could be a tree, what kind of tree would he be? Mr. Hipster would be the evergreen--perennially cool, smelling fresh, and always in bloom. what is Mr. Hipster's most embarrassing bar-related incident? Mr. Hipster was once denied entry to the dapper dog. the bouncer felt that the picture on the then 22 year-old palate king's driver's license didn't look enough like Mr. Hipster. several teenagers laughed at him from inside the bar as he was forced to go next door to the greek diner to try to wrangle a beer. Mr. Hipster got his revenge two years later when the dapper dog went bankrupt. how many people see Mr. Hipster's Booze and Grub Survey a month? as far as Mr. Hipster can tell, he gets about four hits a month. his mom likes to check up on him just to make sure he isn't using any dirty words in his reviews. Mr. Hipster has added an r.i.p. next to the now closed johnny tejano's. was it really all that good? no, johnny's wasn't really that good, but it's one of the few places in town where Mr. Hipster could say, "Just give me the usual" and the waiter, Emanuel, knew exactly what to bring. Mr. Hipster likes personalized service (and high fat/cholesterol meals). are there any particular songs that a dj may play during an evening that would send Mr. Hipster screaming from a bar? Mr. Hipster really despises disco and anything disco that cleverly disguises itself as something else. that said, here is a very short list of songs that make Mr. Hipster's ears bleed: "it's raining men" "i saw the sign" "gypsy woman (she's homeless)" "dancing queen" "c'mon n' ride it (the train)" "i'm gonna be (500 miles)" |
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