Chicagoist ♥s you.

Chicagoist ♥s you.

I must admit, even though I'm a Chicagoist editor, I find this person's list of the people they think we do and do not approve of to be kind of funny. The funny thing is that the majority of the staff really aren't urban hipster types (and a surprising number are transplants from the 'burbs since almost all of us came from those parts (and some, like me, started in Chicago and then moved all around the country before landing here)).

I've decided that when it comes to Chicagoist, some folks just come to the site with preconceived notions of who were are, and we're never going to change their minds, and that's okay. They're still reading the site and we appreciate anyone that takes the times to sit down and take in our little editorial asides on current news items and arts reviews.

Sometimes I worry because I get the impression our readers think we're talking down to them (and this is possibly exacerbated by our "third person style"), but the truth is that we love our readers, we love what we're doing, and we're grateful to be given a platform to write for so many folks. And we want everyone to enjoy themselves on the site.

But Steven, you forgot that people who listen to vinyl should be on the "approved" list, and people who listen to iPod minis fastened to their bodies via an armband are "disapproved." Please make that correction.

Hee hee.