Monday, April 27, 2009

The Hippest Place in America

Chip and Llalan in Davis Square, in Boston, MA

In 1997, Davis Square was listed by the Utne Reader as one of the fifteen "hippest places to live" live" in the United States. What follows are the reasons why it received this honor:

1. Unlike the neighboring Harvard Square, Davis square was named after something other than a pretentious ivy league academic community.
2. "Davis" is an anagram of "Divas," and divas have hips. Therefore, Davis Square is hip.
3. The Davis Square T station is one of the stops on the Red Line of the MBTA subway.
4. Person Davis, the namesake of Davis Square, also had hips.
5. While most urban intersections don't feature random statues of creepy people making weird poses in ambiguously defined constructs, Davis Square does.

Therefore, Davis Square is one of the hippest places to live in America. Obviously.

3 comments:

Dad said...

DAVIS is also an anagram of SIVAD

Allie said...

Way to make your case, Neil. Way to make your case.

Ray Gunn said...

What I would like to know is which are the hippest places to live undead? (Sorry. There is a typo in your first sentence that's pretty funny. Please don't fix it, or my comment will look idiotic.)

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