Art!
Some of you may remember that when living in Brooklyn I took a rather dim view of anti-hipster backlash, because the obvious alternatives were much, much worse. Furthermore, as the comic that kicks that post off demonstrates, sometimes hipsters do things that are actually pretty cool.
So a cool thing that some hipsters did last weekend (and will be doing again next weekend, if you live here in town) was perform the Star Trek classic “Amok Time” in a park in Northeast Portland. I went with some degree of incredulity, but left totally floored. I looked around around for web presence, but they don’t seem to have any, and all the press is too busy pretending not to be nerds to convey how great it is. Instead, here are a couple of clips from my tiny camera that will hopefully give you some inkling of the greatness.