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[kellianne]

I've just dropped Mr. Crane off for his second official day at preschool (the first was a week and a half ago, right before spring break happened). As I left, he was helping one of his teachers put caterpillars in new chrysalis into the butterfly station. He was so stoked!!! I am so relieved to have him there. Trips to Little Farm, the Children's

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[errantly]

I would miss the hipsters too! Your sense of style and funky glasses must confuse the hell out of people down there.

In general news, I think you're really great, and wish we'd had time for happy hours and kid-puppy-play-dates while you were here.

[kellianne]

Very few people wear big glasses here. Could be because it's hella sunny. Even I am wearing contacts much of the time so that I can reach for my sunglasses!

I think you're really great too!! We will remain in touch, lady!

[alicetiara]

The Bay Area is just too damn Burning Man still. The style of that community is not aesthetically pleasing to me.

I agree wholeheartedly that the PacNW hipster fashion is some of the best in the country. It's based on really being broke and creative, in a way that SF hipsterdom isn't because they aren't broke. I will say that SF has a lot of hot lesbians which Seattle has less of. The tech kids are not hip. They might have money and cool sneakers but not hipster in the super cutting edge way.

Grace & I both vehemently believe that the hipster look of the early-mid 00s originated in Seattle. Since I was very much a part of that scene I can testify that visiting NYC in 2002 etc everyone seemed a little behind the times. The trucker hat, Pabst Blue Ribbon stuff was all Seattle punk filtered through a few years later. I have thoughts and feelings on this but i am hella tired (just got home from a 12 hour day) and need to watch V Mars and go to bed.

Can't wait to see you!!!!!!

[kellianne]

I also am not into the whole burner aesthetic, so I feel you there. But that culture is relevant in Seattle, too. Just hit up Cal Anderson Park on any old sunny weekend afternoon and witness the furry pants and fire dancing. Ugh

[ingopixel]

Like alice says, it was always a little weird to me to see NYC hipsters who were supposedly so cutting edge wearing the same stuff we wore three years before. I've never spent real time in the Bay Area but it seems to me like being in the world's largest amazon/Microsoft campus. Khakis and cell phone holsters and meticulously oils he'd brown shoes.

[kellianne]

Honestly I think that seattle is more holster and Bluetooth headset oriented. I haven't seen a whole lot of that in the East Bay. Mostly it's filled with burners, bike nerds, and Buddhists. Is SF proper, I see a lot of near dusty rockers, and a lot of cool corporate types in fashionable clothing, but no proper hipsterdom... Unless you count the kids who do their own hair. Apparently there is no VAIN in SF!

[ingopixel]

Despite my amazing experience at Burning Man and my undying love of the playa, I could never really get into the aesthetic or the lifestyle. Within a year after our burn we were out of the scene. I'm all for creativity and sex positive culture and all that but it was maybe a bit too much for me. No more whippet orgies in a papasan chair for me thanks!

Also, as Alice and Grace and others can attest, we were "scenesters" in Seattle in the early aughts. I had never ears of "hipsters" until the Brooklyn kids started copping our style. Then "scene" became some sort of emo kid candy race hot topic flavor. Weird.

[boobirdsfly]

Thanks for adding me! Look forward to reading your posts.