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Why we love Jon Stewart so much and want to see him everywhere
Last week a picture of Jon Stewart was unearthed. It showed him, fresh-faced and youthful, rocking out to a Dead Kennedy’s concert in the 1980s. There was just one problem. While the face…
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HipsterJew top 10 albums of 2011
Its finally here! Our top 10 list of musical albums from 2011 that you either love-to-hate or hate-to-love! And I’m only calling this list that because there is no logic, rhyme, or reason to it. Also, since it…
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Look at Adrien Brody advertising for Gillette in GQ
Flipping through my roommate’s subscription to GQ, and what do I notice? This little dreamboat of a picture: Not sure how I feel. His facial hair, outside of a Hollywood timepiece, looks really…
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Have you noticed our new site? Here’s how we’re now categorizing everything.
Keep this guide handy to get you through the next couple weeks. I know, change can be a tough and confusing place. In a few weeks we’ll feel and look like Jewbacca. Category…
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Let me shatter your illusions of Hipsters and Fixies with math right quick.
Fact: Hipsters love bikes. Fact: most of the bikes hipsters love are fixed-gear, or “fixies.” Fact: Even though most of us don’t understand them, hipsters love statistics. Especially HJs. How are we going…
I’m Starting to Think This Whole Groundhog Day Thing Is Bullshit
Every year, twelve days before Valentine’s Day*, the nation gets together for its age old tradition of forcibly evicting a woodland rodent from his burrow in order to arbitrarily predict the weather for…
Mangum Alert (Tales from Ireland)
I have a very big problem. And when I say big, I mean that this is probably the most momentous and important decision of my life. Jeff “God” Mangum will be playing a…
The Darkness Returns For More Heavy Metal Irony
Get in your way-back machines for a visit to the mid-2000s. Back then there was a heavy metal band called “The Darkness” that was an incredibly spot-on ironic tribute to the metal bands…
新年快!
What? There’s an excuse to be festive and drink a lot more than I should? There are dragons involved? Sign me up! I just couldn’t resist this image. Happy freaking Chinese New Year…
Art Spiegelman has a wonderful new art exhibit in France
Art Spiegelman is best known for Maus, the comic about the Holocaust that Jewish schools make 12-year-old boys and girls read. This ensures that another generation will be forever scarred and guilted by…
