Did anyone else do a double take when they saw the New York Times magazine this weekend? It features a young Fidel ‘n friends and they look like they came straight from Beulahland.

fidel_and_friends.jpg

Look at him! The cute aviator cap, the bushy beard, the Elvis Costello glasses. His friend to the left has that goatee and the guy on the right has that sweet afro (side note: why don’t revolutions involve sweet afros these days?). If you replaced the machine guns with organic bread loaves, they’d be the coolest kids on the Stumptown block.

fidel_and_friends_HIP.jpg

Don’t you want them in your band?

Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books.

6 replies on “Fidel Castro Is Such a Portland Hipster!”

  1. I somehow neglected to mention that the second picture is some of the shittiest photo-shopping ever. Please get a new unpaid arts intern to turn out this crap.

Comments are closed.