"It's just a tool. You never wash your hammer."

Slate has a very entertaining article on the failure of irony in expression among young adults in China, and with that the failure of hipsterism and its accoutrement of the day, fixie culture.

But fixies as fixtures of hipsterism might be failing here, too. It'll be okay; the Flying Pigeon is ready to swoop into the vacuum. It can carry a ton of irony.

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