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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Leopard Print and Bad Tattoos

posted by on May 31 at 11:41 AM

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Why is it that every time I look at Amy Winehouse I just see an aged Ballard hipster?

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"Leopard Print and Bad Tattoos"

That'll be the name of the VH1 biography movie they make about her when she dies of vomit asphyxiation next week.

Posted by Catbird | May 31, 2007 11:46 AM
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Oh, and every time *I* look, I don't see an aged Ballard hipster, I see the scariest fuckin' drag queen I've ever seen in my life.

Posted by Catbird | May 31, 2007 11:48 AM
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why must the aging hipster be from ballard? bad tattoos and pomps are everywhere. when i lived on capitol hill, there was a gal in my apt. building that looked like amy winehouse's twin.

Posted by lauren | May 31, 2007 11:49 AM
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ZING!

Posted by eli | May 31, 2007 12:11 PM
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Whut-wo, we got hipsters hating on hipsters.

Maybe we should settle this Sharks and Jets style in a way that only hipsters know how: Kickball tournament!

Posted by Buffalo Dance | May 31, 2007 12:38 PM
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Ballard is just where hipsters move when they get old and decide to marry, buy a house, and have kids. It's about real estate. But yes, bad tattoos and betty paige affectations are universal.

Posted by Eric Grandy | May 31, 2007 12:50 PM
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Don't knock the Ballrd senior circuit. You'll be there yourself someday.

Posted by b-lo | May 31, 2007 1:45 PM
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Yes, but I won't be in leopard print.

Posted by Eric Grandy | May 31, 2007 1:46 PM
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Ballard is where the Americana Preservationist Society of America's Seattle chapter is headquartered; bad tattoos, dumb looking scooters, and lots of pompadour grease.

Posted by Carl Perkins' rolling grave | May 31, 2007 1:56 PM
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Yeah, but what's wrong with that? I think she's cute. I would like do the sexy time with her.

Posted by stp | May 31, 2007 2:41 PM
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Aged Ballard hipster....that's a bad thing?

Posted by Amy Winehouse | May 31, 2007 2:56 PM
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Yeah, I don't care what you say. I thin she's sexy in that car wreck kind of way.

Yeah, I think car wrecks are sexy. Get the fuck over it.

Posted by Joh | May 31, 2007 5:32 PM
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aged ballard hipsters can get it. twice on sunday.

Posted by lar | May 31, 2007 6:08 PM
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Last week I called in sick at work so my fave girl and I could go out for breakfast. We ended up at her place, screwing like minxes. That one Amy Winehouse song came on the radio while we were going at it... I already liked it, now I really really love it. If I hear it twenty years from now, it will bring back nice memories.

Posted by Dr_Awesome | May 31, 2007 7:41 PM
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I'd hit it. Con gusto.

Posted by oye como va | May 31, 2007 8:17 PM
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She's not afraid to show off the gray streaks...I dig that...emminently hittable.

Posted by laterite | May 31, 2007 11:16 PM
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ballard: where hipsters go to die.


amy whinehouse looks like a mix between the b-52's, a drag mummy, and my dead grandfathers anus.

Posted by yungrii when skeezed | May 31, 2007 11:53 PM
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Ballard?! Puh-leez. That look is Georgetown to a T. All the ex-hipsters in Ballard have made the transition to yuppie parents [now] trying to cover up their embarrassing ass tattoos that only reveal themselves when bending over to pick up their Mini-Me children/props. Hey, why doesn't someone open an ass tattoo joint for tots in Ballard?

Posted by Tim K | June 1, 2007 9:43 AM
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she's either dirty hot or just hobo dirty. one thing i do know is i do NOT wanna mess with that bee hive dangerously sitting atop her head, cleverly disguised by hair. i've never been stung

Posted by shelbis | June 1, 2007 9:57 AM
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Please. I'd rather look like a fascinating trainwreck with Tina Turner legs and Diana-Ross-in-the-backseat-at-6-am hair when I age than pull this aging hipster crap I tried when I moved to Ballard:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeasart/147464123/

I'm usually wrong, but I remain convinced that dame (or at least her stylist) knows preCISEly what she's doing, and it's all a brilliant marketing scheme to keep you looking and buying her whiskey. Someone knows that hobo dirty in real life can translate to dirty hot in photographs. Smart and frightening.

Posted by Tamara | June 1, 2007 10:04 AM
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Hipsters, former/ex or current, can't typically afford to buy real estate in Ballard. Grandy, "they" go to die/breed in West Seattle, White Center, Georgetown, Burien, Ranier Valley, um...Fife, even TACOMA. The Ballard cliche' c.'95 (around that time, those that could afford to move, left for West Seattle/Ballard when rents on the hill jumped well beyond working class reach) has long since disappeared, now Ballard is overpriced and middle/upper class just like the rest of the city...the chubby, greasy teds and their fat girlfriends just come to visit. And, BTW, the teds/gear heads were never "hip."

Posted by ballard? hipsters? hardly. | June 1, 2007 10:10 AM
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grandy, some of your best buds are aging ballard hipsters!

she's also incredibly ana versus most ballard rockabillies, who tend to be on the rolly side yo. and who yes, moved away from ballard years ago when it got unaffordable.

Posted by erin | June 1, 2007 11:50 PM
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She's 23 years old*, that ain't aging, and its more than just whisky.

*according to her bios, she may have chopped 35 years off, setting the celebrity age lie record.

Posted by anna | June 2, 2007 8:44 AM
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She's beautiful

Posted by Fat Dave | June 6, 2007 10:39 PM
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MSN I NIIPET
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Posted by Bill | June 12, 2007 11:45 AM
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Posted by Bill | June 12, 2007 11:45 AM
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Posted by Bill | June 12, 2007 11:46 AM

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