This brilliant little installment really makes me wonder why you haven’t moved here to Portland yet, where the largest collection of your natural fan-base is/must be.
This installment has suddenly made me realize that Cat & Girl really is the seminal hipster comic. I mean, I’ve been suspecting it for a while, but shopping for trendy clothes in thrift stores, the constant worrying about authenticity – what can be more hipster than that?
lets see…
christmas music
*flip*
christmas music
*flip*
tijuana brass whipped cream
*flip*
christmas music
*flip*
al hirt green hornet
*flip*
tj brass going places
*flip*
christmas music
*flip*
60s white people pop gospel
*flip*
the soundtrack to gypsy
*flip*
christmas music
….
You’re forgetting the pop R&B 70s albums and various military marching band albums. And the random copies of the Green Beret album that everyone who went to Vietnam got a copy of when they finished their tour of duty and now they’ve died and their kids are now getting rid of them.
The comic isn’t just about hipsters! Somebody has to go on trying and failing to figure out the meaning of life, to reassure the rest of us that the wasted effort equals our wasted lack of effort. I feel that this comic validates my timid life choices.
But as long as I’ve been reading, it seemed to me that Cat and Girl seemed to be trying to keep a bit of an arms’ length distance between itself and hipsterdom, even though it was clearly quite close to that culture. This comic really obviously embraces it, though.
Cat and Girl is the seminal online comic for people who have hipster friends as well. We get to stand back and smile, and remember not to be pretentious in our own way. To yourself, be true. We’re all in it together, for better and worse. The two are mutually dependent, sometimes the same thing.
April 26, 2012
Dorothy,
This brilliant little installment really makes me wonder why you haven’t moved here to Portland yet, where the largest collection of your natural fan-base is/must be.
April 26, 2012
This installment has suddenly made me realize that Cat & Girl really is the seminal hipster comic. I mean, I’ve been suspecting it for a while, but shopping for trendy clothes in thrift stores, the constant worrying about authenticity – what can be more hipster than that?
April 26, 2012
But if Cat and Girl is hipster, and hipster is dead http://catandgirl.com/?p=3360 then…
NOooooooooo!
April 26, 2012
“Authenticity” is just playacting.
April 26, 2012
Esn: You must be new here? http://catandgirl.com/?p=3348
April 26, 2012
Whatever, Woolly Muffler is a rad song!
April 27, 2012
I for one would buy every one of these shirts if they were available on a convenient website. Wink wink.
April 27, 2012
I’ve been wondering why I can’t find good clothes and good vinyl at the goodwill anymore. I will mourn appropriately.
April 27, 2012
lets see…
christmas music
*flip*
christmas music
*flip*
tijuana brass whipped cream
*flip*
christmas music
*flip*
al hirt green hornet
*flip*
tj brass going places
*flip*
christmas music
*flip*
60s white people pop gospel
*flip*
the soundtrack to gypsy
*flip*
christmas music
….
April 27, 2012
You’re forgetting the pop R&B 70s albums and various military marching band albums. And the random copies of the Green Beret album that everyone who went to Vietnam got a copy of when they finished their tour of duty and now they’ve died and their kids are now getting rid of them.
April 27, 2012
The comic isn’t just about hipsters! Somebody has to go on trying and failing to figure out the meaning of life, to reassure the rest of us that the wasted effort equals our wasted lack of effort. I feel that this comic validates my timid life choices.
April 29, 2012
Oh the copies of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” that must be in places few people will go.
May 1, 2012
Oh no, leoboiko, I remember that one.
But as long as I’ve been reading, it seemed to me that Cat and Girl seemed to be trying to keep a bit of an arms’ length distance between itself and hipsterdom, even though it was clearly quite close to that culture. This comic really obviously embraces it, though.
May 2, 2012
I could use a broken fantasy of utilitarianism, but the only ones I ever come across smell funny.
May 10, 2012
Great Blog. I really enjoyed reading it and i am looking forward for more posts. thanks for sharing this information.
June 22, 2012
Why must you all try to label Dorthy, or this comic? The point is trying to find truth, knowing in the back of your mind you never will.
October 20, 2013
Cat and Girl is the seminal online comic for people who have hipster friends as well. We get to stand back and smile, and remember not to be pretentious in our own way. To yourself, be true. We’re all in it together, for better and worse. The two are mutually dependent, sometimes the same thing.