Video: Cardboard Tube War To Be Tweerrific Fun In McCarren Park

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Robert Easley
Having worked tirelessly to end global warming, nuclear proliferation, and that horrible Guinea worm disease, hipsters can at last enjoy a well-earned childish diversion. This Sunday the Seattle chapter of the Cardboard Tube Fighting League (yep, it exists) will be hosting a tournament! Everyone's invited to dress up like knights in cardboard armor and smack each other around with tubes, which will be provided by the organizers. (No outside tubes are permitted, to prevent contestants from causing any non-ironic injuries with doctored tubes.) Afterward, everybody will not get laid.

Basically, it's like those mass pillow fights, but with a dash of D&D. Will some naive hipster playfully swing a tube at a cop like at last April's pillow fight? Check back Sunday for the full blow-by-blow; we're just telling you about it now so you can prepare your costume or bile accordingly. But no matter what your stance on pointless hipster fun, you've got to admit this photo is pretty stellar. Below, a video of what to expect.

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Let's hope for some serious downpours on Sunday.. nothing worse than a soggy tube to whip around.

ahahahah.

that does sound like fun though.

Some downpours would also serve to bathe the participants, who largely appear, from the video, to rank among the unwashed.

I still can't understand this "hipster" bashing thing. I would not be identified visually as a hipster. But I see "them". So what. This is NYC. People are more different from one another than anywhere in the world. And there are huge groups of people from all levels of the society that look the same as one another. They (the "hipsters") are mostly young people trying to live their lives in whatever way pleases them. They are not responsible for raised rents or whatever it is that disturbs you about your life. They are not all trustafarians. There are people from every social sphere that have or don't have money. They are no exception. What is the big deal. Ridiculing these kids just seems silly and stupid. What is the point?

Some people just can't take seeing others having fun.

pissing off the squares for almost a hundred years now.




^ thats exactly why people hipster bash

so called 'hipsters' believe that they have invented something.

that they are original, individuals and different from everyone else.

when in fact they wear a kind uniform just as lame as the suits on wall street and the culture they purportedly reject.

i guess people don't hate, say, (i cant think of a good example) sports freaks (the type who wear nothing but sports logo emblazoned clothing) in the same way because they don't base their culture on touting their own individuality, but rather acknowledge that their culture is about the group mentality and such

also, there's something about a culture of people, this generation's youth culture, who see themselves as trend setters in a way that rubs people the wrong way. the fashion/style aspect revolves around clothes that my grandma threw away 20 years ago when SHE thought they weren't cool anymore.

its a culture of regressive laziness and nostalgia for what was discarded the first time it got tired.

and what uniform do you wear?

nostalgia is dumb, but if it's what gets them through the day, who are you to bitch about it? being offended and hating hipsters for doing hipster shit is like pointing and laughing at the goth kids for dressing in black and at the nerds for laughing at calculus jokes. they're funny if you stopped to understand them.

Okay, dungeon master, get ready to be whacked this Sunday!

File this under "Art and Events' that no one really give a fucking shit about. Sorry, I must have left my "positive social attitude" in Queens.

The 1 in 6 with girlfriends will be in for corseted, candlelit and incensed cosplay lovin'.

I hate hipsters because they make me feel old at 27.

As I've said before, the Gothamist commenter's definition of 'hipster' is: "anyone younger than me who enjoys doing anything I don't do."

"Afterward, everybody will not get laid."

Ha! No truer words!

Does the NYPD know about this shenanigan!? I would personally telephone Kelly to bring a battalion of battle ready cops, with real batons ready to start cracking skulls! Let's see how the hipsters take on real wooden batons with their cardboard weapons! The Battle of Billburg starts Sunday SUNDAY!!

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