fauxhemianism

Brooklyn Farming Kids Think They're Cooler than Brooklyn Band Kids

Hamilton Nolan · 04/05/11 12:25PM

The trend of fashionable young Brooklynites either A) leaving Brooklyn to go work/ live on/ start a farm or B) participating in unlikely farming-related activities right here in the city (including, but not limited to: keeping of livestock, harvesting of chicken products, planting of gardens, or sociopathic devotion to neighborhood farmer's markets and their accoutrements) is so old, in trend years, that it's already been dissected from every possible angle by the New York Times, which is, itself, always several light years behind, in trend years. The trend has now moved to a post-trend media outlet unconcerned with being judged by those who define themselves by their participation in trends: the New York Post.

Vice Just Got Super Rich

Hamilton Nolan · 04/05/11 10:42AM

Vice Media, the parent company of Vice magazine, VBS.tv, and other editorial ventures whose quality content is still tinged by a permanent veil of—well, you know what we mean—is now insanely rich. Are you surprised?