I’ve been so damn busy that I’ve totally been slipping on keeping up with pop culture. I rarely have time to surf the ol’ interweb and unless it’s on in demand, I haven’t seen it. So when it came to my attention that Gawkers Hipster of the Decade, Gavin McInnes, is releasing a book of Street Boners, I asked that funny-ass muther fucker to send me a copy, toot sweet.

Well, my package came in the mail today and I was super excited to dive in for some laughs, except Fritz insisted that it was his package and proceeded to rip it open and say that it was favorite book. Ok. I mean, he’s never even been on Street Carnage before. WTF dude. Then, he actually got the book confiscated by BD while on a TO. After he got off TO, he marched his little ass upstairs with his copy of Street Boners, threw it on his bed, then jumped into the bath. Splash.

Now, I am dead serious when I tell you that this little, teeny-tiny hipster couldn’t wait for me to read him Street Boners in bed. I can get down with that, so we got under the covers and he pointed to each little photo and said ‘read mommy’. I did as I was told. I laughed at the jokes and he giggled along on que as if he totally got it. Gawd I love that little turd.  I had to insert a lot of ‘blank-ed-y, blank, blanks’ in loo of bad words but I have to say, this was the best bedtime story sesh ever. We only got through like eight pages so there are about a million more Street Boners and hipster fashion jokes to go. Can you say Win-Win!?!

To quote the back of the book ‘In short, if you hate eye candy and laughing your ass off, this book is not for you’.

Hits shelves May 27th! Buy that shit yo!

When my Google Alerts turned up this post on Momversation, entitled Hipster Mom: Oxymoron?, I had to comment. The author Christine poses the question ‘…is it really important to be ‘hip’ and a mom?’. She claims that …’Being a ‘hipster’ is about being better than thou and if a mother is concerned about being too cool for school, she’s sending a dangerous message to her kids.’ This is such bullshit. First of all being hip isn’t about being ‘better than thou’, it’s about looking good, feeling good and enjoying who you are. While I think the term ‘hipster’ is funny and I use it partly in jest, I also believe that myself, and probably most of my readers, do embody the origins of the word ‘hipster’ which by Websters Dictionary is defined as ‘a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns’.

Christine also claims that if you are a hipster mom your kids will turn out like the bratty kids on My Super Sweet 16. Where that kind of reasoning comes in is beyond me. I would think that, like myself, any hip mama would expose her child to art, music, kindness, creativity and good fun not extreme materialism and snobbery. She ends with telling her readers to ‘be yourself’…but I guess if being yourself means being ‘hip’ or a ‘hipster’ you’re inevitably a bad influence on your kids. Suck it Christine! And by the way, you couldn’t be more off the mark on your hipster imagery for the post. See above for an actual hipster mom.