The Coolest Kids in Town: a blog about Baltimore, DC, and the misadventures of two-city life.

We make a lot of jokes here at TCKiT, about hipsters and sweaters and drinks made with MD 20/20 , but today let's do something different. In fact, let's do something nice . 1. First up are the TED talks , and if you don't know them, then you should. The most brilliant, innovative, interesting, coolest people ever to live in our modern world get on stage with just a microphone, a powerpoint and 5 - 15 minutes to rock your world. Among the better-known honorees: Bill Clinton , Isabelle Allende , Bill Gates , Frank Gehry, Robert Ballard, Richard Branson, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Dave Eggers, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking...get the idea? 2. Second to these are the videos at Stock Exchange of Visions . These are to the TED talks as the iPad is to a laptop - short, sweet, stylish, and to the point (if lacking in details). Great minds get on video and talk for 30 seconds or so about their view for the planet - some times bewildering, sometime...

Well kids, it's been a pretty awful 24 hours: the Caps lost, the O's can't seem to win more than 2 games together, and I'm about 30 seconds from ending one of my co-workers. But it looks like the worst might be behind me now: I cut off all my hair, that Rascal Flatts song isn't stuck in my head anymore (but it might be stuck in yours, sucka), and Tex is back! More than back, actually, she and I are doing our very first joint post, and it's on a subject very near and dear to our hearts: hating on hipsters. First on the menu: Hipster Wife Hunting . Don't worry, it's just as gross as it sounds. American Apparel wearing girls put up personal ads telling everyone why they'd make the perfect hipster wife in hopes of meeting their douchey soulmate. I know, I know, it sounds like there is no upside to a site this obnoxious, but, as it turns out, after a really tough day some aggressive hipster hating is just the ticket to turn things around. And now for so...

Well, well, well. Look who decided to show up to the blog. Yes, kiddos, Texas is back, and better than ever before, filling your life with light and happiness and awful, awful hipsters. 1. First up: the good, the bad, and the ugly at Look at this fucking hipster . Started with facebook photos, expanded into an empire, the site lambasts hipsters like it's going out of style. Which it never will. 2. Once you've taken that in, cleanse your palate and amuse yourself over at Hipster Puppies. It's about exactly what it sounds like - hipster puppies (Not pupsters . Never pupsters.) - in all shapes and colors. It's cute and clever, and makes you less terrified for the state of today's youth. Now, while you're doing all this hipster research, you're probably going to want a stiff drink. Well, this isn't one, but it might get you laid at the kind of parties where people debate Eliott Smith. So enter Texas' latest truck stop drink creation: ...