Nickname: Ironyonrye (hipsters love irony. Jews love rye. Hipster Jews love Iron & Wine)
Age: 21
Location: Chicago, Illinois/Northwest Indiana
Occupation: Blogger/culinary school student/professional vagrant
But your mother always dreamed you would become: Someone intelligent, like a professor. (Hah!)
Level of Jewishness / Hipsterness: Not Jewish, but some of my best friends are Jews. (I love that line) I did attend a friend’s Seder dinner once. As for hipster, well… I’m hipster enough to write on this blog despite my Goy status. I think that says a lot.
I am a man looking for a wo-man
If you could be a typeface, which one would you pick?
Helvetica, naturally. I’m just that hip and sophisticated.
How do you take your coffee?
With sugar and cream. But not too much of either. It still has to taste like coffee.
Favorite vegan dish your mother makes:
Haven’t you heard? I do the cooking round these parts. I can do lots of vegan dishes, but the best is my vegetable stir-fry (Lady Jews, take note, this could be your future Christmas dinner). Not to take away anything from my mom though. She just thinks vegans are silly.
Oh baby, tell me what you put on your bagel.
It depends. Is it a plain bagel? Then I go with the savory breakfast options, with lots of cheese and eggs. Is it cinnamon raisin (my favorite)? Then I keep it simple and go with the cream cheese.
Whats the first song on your make out mix?
Well, it’s a tough decision. Depending on the particular girl’s taste in music, of course. But I feel that a must on any makeout mix is Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. So yeah, that song would probably be first.
When you make ‘bad decisions’, what is your drink of choice?
I’m fueled by beer, kind of like Bender. But I am not a discriminating drinker (which is why I get into trouble). If it’s a wine cooler or has “ice” in the name, it’s off limits. Everything else is fair game.
What is the most obscure band you’ve ever seen?
I saw Neon Indian with Prefuse 73 last fall. That was a pretty cool show. Mostly because I was among my own kind, and no mainstreamers were there.
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