Claire says yes if that girl can actually play the banjo.

Well, I think you all know how I feel about hipsters.

Maybe you don't, so let me tell you: Too too much work!

Definitely a cute aesthetic that would be a cuter if I didn't know how long it took you to look like you could make that scene. I'm all for suffereing a bit to express a look, but only a little bit.

So just going in with only my feelings about hipsters to guide me, it could sort of already tell how I was going to feel about the overall concept of the poster above. And then the concept turned out to be boring and borderline offensive! Jill sent me a great opinion piece from Salon.com about this new poster make by some Obama mamas in New York, a take on the somewhat-more-charming Joan Baez poster from decades ago. Go and read the piece because it is short and very interesting and I right on in so many ways.

I especially agree with Rebecca Trainster's point that through this whole election, and including the primary season, there was/is some notion that Barack is the sexy choice, and not just "sexy" in the sense of current and a la mode, but sexy in the real sense, like people who will vote for Barack are hot, and people who will vote for (then) Hillary and (now) McCain are fat-ish and hairy. I also like the point raised by Sarah Hepola, that the "Palin is not a woman's choice" statement is misguided. I would really prefer something more directly referencing her politics like, "Palin is anti-choice" or "Palin is not a pro-woman choice" that would temper the message a little bit so that it does not sound like a supposedly feminist group of women think that some other women need to be told who to vote for.