Order of Succession

This weekend marks the end of SXSW and the hell that occurs when this falls on St. Patrick's Day. And to celebrate, I have the following little bid of trivia.

The HIPSTERS, as a means of assuring a continued power base, met in 2002 to establish a line of succession. It was realized, that when 70% of the worlds hipster were assembled in Austin during SXSW that it would be possible that by some natural disaster or act of terrorism that the majority of the hipster movement could be destroyed. This would in turn, curtail the consumption of vintage/ironic clothing and might even directly cause the Puma company in to bankruptcy. This is to say little of what would happen to the newly establish hoodie exchange.

In response to this concern, in June of 2002 the local hipster population sent delegates to meet at the Prague Hipster Amalgamated Directive (PHAD). At the time, PHAD and their power structure decided to designate an order for the succession of "the movement" so that no such tragedy would jeopardize the cause. The Vice Commandant and chief of Experimental Hair was to stay an minimum of 500 miles away from Austin during SXSW. It was also suggested that he/she may even want to consider staying at home and not frequent the garage sale circuit of Montreal, Brooklyn or LA so as to remove the chance of unilateral strikes.

The Commandant was required to keep his iphone on and in properly charged capacity.

So, now that the weekend is over we can all breath a little easier and that brave soul who weathered this weekend in a undisclosed site can ..... 'stand down'.