The Difference a Century Can Make

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You can't do anything at all without a hipster knowing everything there is to know about it. Even dumb stuff: I was at Dollar General getting ready to get a $2 twelve DVD boxset of Richard Pryor-The Sober Years, and I knocked this other DVD in the floor and picked it up. I don't even know what it was, but some hipster stood there telling me about the case it came in and the history of DVD cases and the booklets that come in some of them, and that got him onto video game instruction booklets and how according to the Super Mario Bros one all those bricks Mario and Luigi were smashing were transformed Mushroom Kingdom residents, and then he went on to something about the Rebel Alliance murdering the construction workers on the Death Star, and then he talked about politics in comic books and some show called Comic Book Men. Then he said he had to check his voicemail, and, get this, he went out to his car and pulled out a record player, because all his voicemail goes straight to vinyl record. But when I started to say something about poetry, he said he had to make a phone call. And he's still making it now.