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Writing columns for the L.A. Times is, like, so over. People at Starbucks read the L.A. Times. But Matt Welch doesn't get it. Maybe he's trying to be retro?

Comments

[Mike (former resident of a mob]

What is this "hipness" of which you speak?

[Cridland]

> Maybe he's trying to be retro?

Psst- He think "Exile on Main Street" is the cat's meow.

[ed]

I don't get it.

[kevrob]

Perhaps if the LAT refrained from writing a gushy piece about the next "hip neighborhood" it might gentrify a bit slower, hmmmm? (Not that the process could be stopped cold, and not that I'd try to halt it.)

Kevin