What Was The Hipster: A Sociological Investigation - a new book brought to you by the cadre of sad, young, literary intellectuals known as N+1 - goes on sale this week. The genesis of the book was a panel discussion held last year in New York featuring writers, editors, and musicians deemed worthy to speak on the apparently still hot-button topic of hipsterdom. To celebrate its publication, N+1 held another hipster panel last night, this time in Los Angeles. But according to The L.A. Times, as well as a few of the panelists, the event was all but taken over by Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, who showed up shirtless, interrupted people, ranted, and pretty much made an ass of himself - thus proving the old adage that you can't bring a hipster anywhere nice, and surprising no one at least a tiny bit familiar with McInnes.

According to Christian Lorentzenen, the evening's moderator and a senior editor at The Observer, the event was "kind of a shitstorm." Panelist Christopher Glazek said, "It’s just probably a mistake to assume hipsters are authorities on hipsters, or are going to comment interestingly on the circumstances of their own personhood.”

Certainly, McInnes' big-baby bravura will only add fodder to anti-hipster mockery, which was probably his point. (Who really thought McInnes would "comment interestingly" on his famously outsize, violence-prone, pukey "personhood"?) But it's also worth noting that unlike the New York panel, the vibe on the West Coast was less venomous, possibly even supportive of the hipster movement. Cobrasnake photographer Mark Hunter - a guy mostly known for taking naked pictures of drunk hipster chicks at parties - even went so far as to laud the hipster generation for it's creativity. Man, I really hope someone taped this. Don't all hipsters have digital movie cameras and YouTube accounts?