“As soon as I can find them, I’ll be there posing in front of the cans.”

Almost a quarter polled think there should be a hipster tax.

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the ‘editorial we’? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are…

The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 is the sort of thing that just keeps spawning cool ideas. Not only did it spark the City Beautiful Movement — which heavily influenced the re-design of D.C.’s monumental core — it also saw the birth of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Wrigley’s Gum, and Cracker Jack’s. And, as we recently learned, the squished penny souvenir. Although we have spotted the machines around the country at a variety of tourist…