I would like to point out that the increasingly tired Brooklyn hipster meme is largely a delusional myth cooked up by advertising agencies obsessed with an approximately five-block area. Brooklyn is a massive and diverse borough and younger white people with Etsy-filled apartments, “artisanal” businesses and absurd facial hair are but a tiny, tiny minority. Unfortunately the people who seem to have access to video equipment usually seem to be of that ilk, which explains the existence of “A Case of the Beard,” a… uh… mini-documentary that tells the tale of new daddy Luke and his beard—which his baby rightly hates.

Before you get too annoyed at that scraggly prospector facial hair, know that Luke nobly shaves it off to appease his young daughter, but then gets all sentimental and suspends it in lucite for the ugliest paperweight known to man.  I’m trying to go easy on the guy in that whole gracious, everyone-deserves-a-story, NPR-kind of way, but this short is… inexplicably infuriating. Perhaps it’s because—while I’m not one to deny anyone a little vanity—you’re lyrically mourning a (bad) fucking beard in public?!? Do you know how your wife had to change her body for this baby? The rest of my fury is just probably my irrational hatred of lucite guitars and overly twee short film soundtracks. Damn hairy hipsters, get off my lawn!
 

 
Via Brokelyn