The day is upon us to celebrate our fearless leader, the dreamy boyfriend of our collective carnival heart, who expertly extracts every truth and weird fact we didn’t know we wanted to know from the great claw machine of history and presents it to us with a charming smile as we accept our new reality in the form of a teddy bear, swooning.
Was that too abstract? HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHELSEY 🎡
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New episode to pass your self-quarantine time!
Throughout my lifetime I have been both a middle class college student and a summer hitch-hiker dead set on finding the real heart of America, and on this episode I’ll cop to the facts: I’m a poser. We will explore one of the most hated archetypes of the modern age: the ironically-dressed middle and upper class young adults whose aggressive individuality is anything but. The hipsters we know today are not a new phenomenon, and neither is the phenomenon we know as ‘cool.' We’ll look at the long term history of the hippest white kids who shirked their privilege to experience to the life of the marginalized, copying black, queer, and blue collar culture and pouring into spaces where the mainstream forbade them to go. From the transcendentalists of the 1800s and the ‘slumming parties’ of their urban counterparts, to the jazz age popularity of cool black musicians and wild queer drag parties, to the beat poet Jack Kerouac’s hitchhiking days and Nirvana’s grungy working class flannel trend, hipsters have always sought to emulate those without the same privilege, and maybe, in the process, absolve themselves of their own.
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Written, produced + hosted by @chelseywebersmith
Produced + edited by @clear_commo
Research assisted by @rileymsmith96
Script editing by @mirandatheswampmonster
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LIVE SHOW POSTPONED!! Due to Washington State’s new restrictions on events we have moved the date to MAY 22nd. Please mark your calendars. We are sorry about this, but we promise to give you an even better variety hour! Wash your hands and stay calm!
Who saw the amazing @thunderstormartis get four chairs on @nbcthevoice? Here’s American Hysteria’s own @mirandatheswampmonster singing with Thunder last summer! 😍😍😍 @johnlegend
Thanks to @pride and the lovely @levichambers for letting this excitable queer talk about the #gayagenda and what it means to be nonbinary!
