My favorite blog is going offline.

LATFH.com is a wonderful themed Tumblr blog that has taken the necessary role of making fun of people imploring the world to make of them: hipsters.  If you don’t live in New York or L.A., you may not understand the need to take these people to task.  In the pursuit of irony, hipsters make a mockery of everything authentic, but their goal to be counter-culture is subverted by the strict fashion and social codes of hipsterdom that ultimately enforce normalcy within their subculture.  They need to be stopped!

Partly because it’s serving an important social function, but mostly because it’s hilarious, LATFH.com content will turned into a book this spring.  It’s following in the footsteps of other themed blogs such as Stuff White People Like and Chuck Norris Facts.

The trend of blog themes becoming books tells two important things: 1) humble themes can make a big splash and 2) the blogosphere is taken seriously by publishers.

I can’t wait to proudly display the book on my coffee table (which, I should note, is not littered with hipster regalia: semi-philosophical musing on the benefits of polyamorous arrangements, bad LPs from the 80s, and half-empty PBR cans).

-Tom