About 35 weeks late to the hipster-filled party, DCist editors have taken to calling the dudes of the DC-based Late Night Shots social networking group misogynists:

“And we can’t even begin to thank all the fine gentlemen of LNS enough,” writes DCist’s Ian Buckwalter. We salute you all. Because regardless of what flaws the rest of us have as men, at least we can always point at you and say, ‘Well, at least we’re not that guy.’ You always make us look better in comparison, as Mr. Rogers might say, ‘just by your being you.’”

Wonder what Reed Landry, founder of LNS, thinks about this?

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Who was it who said no publicity is bad publicity?

Thanks to the recent City Paper article saying the Late Night Shots folks aren’t as hip as they think, Late Night Shots is now becoming the hip place to be. Want proof? A friend of Big Head DC recently found this ad on Craig’s List:

Looking for an in to the Late Night Shots club…. - 23

Hi boys,

I’ll keep this simple. I am an attractive 23 year old female. Height, and weight proportional (5′3, 122lbs - you do the math).

I recently moved to the area and I heard about the club through the grapevine. I read the city paper article - and now I am even more interested.

I will buy a drink for the first boy who hooks me up with an invite. Simple as that - and we can let things go from there.

In other words, the City Paper has now made actual celebrities out of a bunch of people it claimed did not deserve their self-appointed celebrity status. And Erik Wemple loses again.

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From today’s Reliable Source:

LNS fans flooded the paper’s Web site to denounce the [Washington City Paper] staff as “hipsters” who are “jealous of our privilege, jealous of our economic success, jealous of our fun”; while detractors took aim at “pampered, rich frat boys.” Meanwhile, on the front of Latenightshots.com, founder Reed Landry posted a mostly restrained rebuttal (”highly biased . . . completely distorted” ) with a photo . . . from Winona Ryder’s ‘89 flick “Heathers.”

Meaning — what exactly? In the dark comedy, Ryder ends up murdering the cool girls who lord over her high school. Bad behavior, sure, but does LNS really want to identify with the witchy Heathers? Landry broke down the themes for us: “There’s a group of people who is extremely upset about the existence of another group of people who could care less about them.” Also: “We love everything from the 1980s.”

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A renowned cultural critic has scrupulously analyzed the comments of Late Night Shots members who’ve reacted to this week’s scathing Washington City Paper article focused on the group. As the scholar details, it’s the biggest moral conflict between rich kids and young hipsters that Washington has seen since Jenna Bush dated a mere upper middle classer. Or something like that. Anyway, as he sorts things out, you, dear reader, can consider Big Head DC to be your own private Switzerland — one part rich, one part hip. We love you all!

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You decide:

Back in November I mentioned that there was a certain newspaper in DC that I would never link to on this site again. Well, that rag has dedicated this week’s front page to Late Night Shots. It publishes offensive posts from their increasingly boring comment threads. It has the author crash LNS events at Smith Point. Real fantastic hands-in-the-mud journalism.

Sorry guys, but you’re about a year late to the party. That’s a social offense even worse than mistaking loafers for boating shoes. My first LNS mention on this site was on June 1, 2006. Wonkette picked up on it soon after. My first Smith Point crash was in November (where I finally met the very polite, affable, and legendary Reed Landry). After their Valentine’s party I stopped giving a shit. I’m not the only one. Wonkette hasn’t published a “Last Week’s Shots” in forever.

I noted that a good number of the posts published today were in Wonkette first. I would be furious if I were them. It’s easy to write a cover story when a good deal of the research has already been done for you.

No one cares about LNS anymore. Just like no one cares about this shitty and increasingly irrelevant paper.

Our only observation: Why would Wonkette be mad at this type of cribbing when they do it all the time?

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