Minnesotans do talk about being "hipsters" more than anyone else I know.

Now that buzzfeed.com posted that MN is the most hipster state, I presume a jump in people who think they're hip.

Prince IS his royal purpleness...

Thanks, Barrett, I was almost going to lose some sleep over that.

Ironically? Sarcastically? Of course.

I can't really talk much really, being a transplant. I was stationed out in Washington in the early 90s when California started migrating north so I was kinda playing into the reference. I also met a bunch of people from Minnesota who seemed nice enough.

Zra, I was working a book festival in the early '90s in Seattle, and people I befriended there told me not to breathe a word about really being from Cali, but to emphasize living in Minnesota, b/c everyone in Seattle hated Californians and loved Minnesotans. Funny you brought that up, people sure were up in arms about it then!

When I lived in Philadelphia in the '80s, South Street was a very cool street. Then the city strung a banner across it, reading something like "South Street, the hippest street in town" and ruined everything. The chains moved in, developers too. South St. totally lost it bohemian chic character. We've got to be vigilant that this does not happen here in Minny!

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: It's a really obsure number, I'm sure you haven't heard of it.

Tbt is hip

No, Duluth is not hip. Except in a bad way.

Or, unless you count hip replacement surgery. We do have good hospitals!

Good hospitals?  Like St Scaries? Golden Cross anyone? Doesn't jive with my Caligari Cabinet sized collection of horror stories spawned within their torture chambered walls (though I can't say they're any worse than any other corporatized utility muffin research facility peddling lime green get-well jello and wet canned peas).  I'd give a hallowed left nut for Hipsters to suddenly inundate the T.P and generally drive up realty so I could sell at a humble profit and move on dot org, but take it from the lifers and breath easy, it will never happen. The failure to lure Google was heartbreaking, yet predictable, and so I'm personally saving up to rent a U-Haul semi trailer, chock it full of 'Duluth is Cool' paraphernalia, and drive it to L.A. to hawk the shit on the first busy looking intersection I find, while I double my efforts with Hollywood executives to plant further random references to Duluth in media. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIMWRXWY90

Spoken like a true hipster.

Buzzfeed.com be damned - the fact that this piece has lingered here for so long exemplifies the fact that Minnesota is just not hip.  Or does it?  Hip be damned too, I say.

What's homegrown? Did I miss something interesting? Nah, didnt think so.