Hairy
So I was out and about this weekend and I saw a couple of hipster dudes complimenting one another on their beards. It was a very depressing moment because I too have a beard and it was like I was looking into an unflattering mirror. And since I'm also out of shape like the two hipsters, you could just say all mirrors are unflattering so adding the adjective was a weak attempt at making myself feel better. Regardless, I started noticing more and more guys with beards (insert gay joke here) and almost all of them had a kind of haughty quality to them. The hipster "too cool to be too cool but you don't even know what too cool really is because you're not as cool as me" vibe. Basically, it's not that they are too cool, it's that you and I are not cool enough. Of course, their conversations were usually as ridiculous as any as you'd hear in a frat house. It's like fart and dick jokes are only funny if the audience listening to them is limited. If they hear a fart joke, it's funny. If YOU hear a fart joke, it's not. I feel like we're a decade away from bearded guys saying things like, "Wedding Singer was popular but Sandler's best work was Billy Madison." Followed by, "Sandler, pshaw? His work doesn't evoke the same working class struggle of Farley."
Of course, me saying all of this makes me just as guilty. Alas, I'm a denizen of Hollywood with a beard and opinion. I'm basically the most pretentious lowest common denominator.
