The Dawn Of Another Blue Day Trying To Make Fort Worth Hip

Blue seems to be the dominant color scheme on this morning of the 3rd Friday of April.

I'm feeling a bit blue this morning. I am very stodgy and don't like change. This morning Google changed its Blogger product. Google seems to change its products way too much. The changes never seem like an improvement to me.

For me, the changes to Google AdSense made AdSense a total mess.

In addition to Google annoying me, Mother Nature had a big fit in the middle of the night, tossing rain to the ground, along with some lightning bolts. The booming did not last too long.

This morning I read that something called Travel+Leisure ranked 10 American towns according to their Hipster friendliness.

I am not sure I know what a Hipster is. Modern era Hippie? I don't know.

I clicked through the Top Ten Hipster City List expecting to find Fort Worth near the top.

But, the only Texas town on the Hipster List is Austin at #7.

7. Austin: "The Texas capital has long been a hotbed for live music as well as offbeat types, but the trendsetting locals also scored big points for being tech-fluent." 

The Number 3 Hipster town is San Francisco. Number 2 is a few miles north of San Francisco, the town of Portland. And #1 is.........

1. Seattle: "These northwesterners prove that a key to hipsterness is being ahead of the curve: they won the survey for their smarts, their tech savvy, and their high-octane coffee. As a result, the geek chic may be a little more buttoned-down here than in other cities." 

I have tried to import smarts, tech savvy and high-octane coffee to Fort Worth, but there is only so much one person can do to amp up a town's hipness.

It is 30 degrees above freezing right now. I think I will go swimming before it gets any hotter.

Bonnie & Blog For Fort Worth Hipsters

I did not know there were any Fort Worth hipsters til I got an email this morning informing me that there is a new blog in town, it being one for the hipsters in Fort Worth.

The email said that ever since West & Clear shut their Fort Worth blog down we in Fort Worth have been clamoring for a good Fort Worth blog.

I haven't noticed any clamoring, but, I haven't been looking for any clamoring, so there could have been some clamoring that I did not hear.

Like I did not know that there is going to be a HUGE protest march in downtown Fort Worth tomorrow, called, I think, 9/12. My therapist, Dr. L.C. kept asking me if I was going to be there on Saturday. I had no idea what she was talking about, but since that is often the case I didn't get around to asking what she was talking about til the 4th or 5th time she mentioned it.

I don't like going to a protest march. I always end up getting arrested. And, with this one being in Fort Worth, the Gestapo Storm Troopers will likely be out in full force, armed with tasers and whacking sticks to shock and whack anyone who dares to cross the Fort Worth Gestapo's very thin, feeble line.

Anyway, back to the new Fort Worth blog for Fort Worth hipsters. It is called Bonnie & Blog. It is written by a pair calling themselves Bonnie & Clyde. The real Bonnie & Clyde of bank robbing murder fame, stayed in Fort Worth at the Stockyards Hotel during a break from their crime spree.

I don't think I'm a hipster, so the hipness of the Bonnie & Blog blog was likely lost on me. It seems like a nice blog with a lot of information about Fort Worth, including the Hip Pocket Theater. The Hip Pocket Theater is likely full of Fort Worth hipsters.