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It's time to feed the sweaty hipster drones with what they love best: unflattering photos of themselves. Yes, it's your weekly dose of Blue States Lose, wherein we look at the eye-bleeding photo galleries at The Cobrasnake, Last Night’s Party, Misshapes, and Ambrel so you won't have to. After the jump, Joey Arak shows off his shiny new badge from the Fashion Police.

For some reason, some people look at this column as ground zero for the country's hipster goings-ons. And by "country," we obviously mean New York and Los Angeles. As such, we get lots of emails pertaining to different hipster-related topics: links to other photo galleries, heated rants about particular people and pictures, Bat Mitzvah invitiations, etc. Sometimes the material is worth mentioning. This week we'll tell you about three of them. First you get the public service announcement, then after you sit through that you get two morsels of delicious comedy.

· The PSA, an actual real live hipster casting call, for a short film: "The entire episode is based around a slammin' hipster party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and there's only one way you get a slammin' hipster party to look real- you throw one yourself. In return for Happy Young People providing you with beverage, craft services, and BBQ all we ask in return is that you participate as an extra in the shoot. The times for the days are as follows: Saturday, May 13, 2006: 2:00PM - 10:00PM; Sunday, May 14, 2006: 12:00PM - 8:00PM." To RSVP and get the location and all that, here's the email address: joselin22@yahoo.com. We assume you must provide your own American Apparel short-shorts.

· And now the delicious comedy. First up, eine kleine nachtdoucheyness from the Cobrasnake, via YouTube. Sigh. Secondly, and completely amazing: Won't you join us for some Last Night's Party dinner theater?!?!

Sorry for the two-week-old Misshapes photos, but they went up too late for the last edition of BSL and last week's photos aren't up yet (coincidence?). Anytwinkles, here's the list.

10) Ambrel. Return of Rated X panty party photo #8865: The best thing about Angry Goth is that he may be angry and a goth, but he doesn't let that stop him from being a fine host. Here Angry Goth strikes his usual pose while entertaining a couple just in from Palm Beach. You see? He's all death-stares one minute, tapas recommendations the next. Precious.

9) Misshapes. April 29, 2006 photo #041: This is the girl at every high school who makes her prom dress out of duct tape because she wants to be different, without realizing that the thing that truly makes her different is that her parents think she's kind of annoying.

8) Misshapes. April 29, 2006 photo #012: "Guys, I don't really know about this whole Misfits and cape thing anymore. It's just that I've been getting really into Nebraska and Born to Run and, well, everything else is just seeming kind of frivolous and meaningless, you know?" Goddamnit Other Dude, you are bringing straight fucking fire!

7) Misshapes. April 29, 2006 photo #059: THE SECRET PAIN OF FONZARELLI: Every time he rolled up into Al's with his too-cool-for-school look and attitude and let out that big "Ayyyyyy," Richie and Joanie and Chachi were happy to see him, sure. But you could always see it behind their eyes, the way they knew that the Fonz was clinging to a dream long since dead. That he was holding on for far, far too long. They just kept on entertaining his charade out of pity, and the Fonz knew that too, deep down inside. He repressed it, sure, but it was always knawing away at the pit of his stomach. Eventually he would come to terms with it. Yeah ... Simon Rex still has a long way to go.

6) Misshapes. April 29, 2006 photo #263: We dare you to find us a magic carpet with a worse haircut. Even Aladdin wouldn't pop a squat on this thing, not even if Robin Williams offered him 30 more wishes.

5) The Cobrasnake. Videogame Mother photo #4607: This relates to hipsters in no way, shape or form, but we wish to offer some gentle words of advice to Madden Twin #2, for no other reason than we're just concerned about him. Dude, you keep making the same scrunched-up lip-biting face in every picture on this damn website. Do you not realize you look like an 11-year-old throwing a temper tantrum while trying to hold in the biggest shit of his life? You know, once you hit your late 20s you can pretty much drop that whole mad-at-the-world thing. It's cool. Really, we won't tell. We just don't want your insides to burst, lest Steve Aoki get his jacket stained.

4) Last Night's Party. Karaoke Killed the Cat photo #2761: What the shit? Is this Delancey or Daytona? We're not saying you can't go out and have a good time and everything, but when real life starts to mirror a Miller Lite ad, it might be time to take a step back and wonder what the hell you're doing drenched in a bar on a Tuesday night at 3:30 a.m. It is not, however, time to get a job.

3) Last Night's Party. Rated X (Again) photo #2047: Way back on April 14th, we jokingly proclaimed that 9/11 had finally crossed the threshold of being an acceptable source of hipster irony. Dude, we were fucking joking. We're just now catching up to AIDS and Columbine, and you're diving right into World Trade Death-Machine? Ballsy, friend, ballsy.

2) The Cobrasnake. Art Shows Apple Pie photo #0561: Let's say you had a person you were very close to. Maybe he was just your friend, maybe he was your boyfriend. Either way, you spend a ton of time with him. You're with him practically every day. And this friend loves taking pictures. Absolutely can't stop taking pictures. And since you're always with him, he can't stop taking pictures of you. Day in and day out, hundreds upon hundreds of pictures. It never ends. Picture after picture after picture. Now, do you think there comes a day when you finally throw your hands up in the air out of sickened desperation and scream "Can't we just fucking hang out without you taking 500 pictures of me?!" Or are you always going to be the kind of person reaching for the stupid novelty glasses at CVS because "Wait, wait, how about one of me in these? That's a new one, right?"

1) Misshapes. April 29, 2006 photo #051: Dude, are you serious? Sleeveless shirt, fingerless gloves and that scarf that everyone stopped wearing two months ago? Is Buster Keaton your favorite actor? Are you bummed that Hitler annexed Poland? Did color TV blow your mind? Is AIDS still GRIDS to you? Are you a Russian tourist who wanted nothing more than to come to the U.S. and go to Misshapes because you saw it in Flaunt, so you bought what you assumed was the appropriate uniform at the time and began saving? And by the time you could swing a roundtrip ticket you didn't have any scratch left over to update your attire, which left you stranded in New York looking like the human form of Polio? Tough break.