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It's not a coincidence that the clouds above Manhattan just parted, because it's time for Blue States Lose. You know the routine: we don safety goggles and sift through photos of the fucked-up hipsters at The Cobrasnake, Last Night’s Party, Misshapes, and Ambrel so you won't have to. After the jump, Joey Arak lets Merlin take pictures of his new boy-cut panties.

You'll notice an absence of Misshapes photos. Unfortunately, our go-to gallery has been M.I.A. for the past two weeks. Enjoy the also-rans.

10) Last Night's Party. Transmission photo #5479: This photo is about 10 seconds of south-heading bloodflow removed from being Last Night's Party's first-ever 3D photo. And it's about 2 seconds away from being banned in 48 states.

9) Last Night's Party. Urban Pinup: Talia photo #4585: God, we love it when LNP tries to get intellectual on us. It's like a retarded child trying to klutz his way through a magic routine. We believe the name of this one is "Overbearing Visual Symbolism Part I," by that grand master, Guy Who Thinks He is Way Smarter than He Actually is.

8) The Cobrasnake. Magical Mountain photo #4754: The next time somebody asks you what the differences between New York and Los Anegeles hipsters are, tell them there's at least 10,000 different reasons in just this photo. Then make them name them all.

7) Last Night's Party photo #3919: "Mmmmm, tell me in my good ear. What's that? We're fabulous? Don't you think I know that? Oh Simon, you're such a card. You're positively delicious."

6) Last Night's Party. Dinner With Bronques photo #1148: This is one of the more curious photo sets we've ever had to encounter for the sake of this column. The fancypants restaurant Sapa let Last Night's Party & Co. come eat for free, apparently for the purpose of lending the restaurant an air of forced coolness or some other stupid reason. Anyway, LNP was forced to twirl around the dinner table and take photo after photo of hipsters just sitting down and eating dinner. Since it was just a meal and not a raunchy dance party, we wondered how the trademark LNP touch would be applied to the pictures. Then we quickly realized the strategy: just take shots of people facefucking dessert.

5) The Cobrasnake. LAX is Crazy photo #6367: 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 hoodie stained.

4) Last Night's Party. Gender Bender photo #3566: Known as the king of the jungle, the lion's main habitat is, in fact, the African grasslands. Once common in Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe, this magnificent animal is now a protected species. Unlike most members of the cat family, lions are social animals that live in prides (family groups) of 20-30 individuals. Some prides include a single male, while others have as many as four. While there is more than one male, the males are most likely litter mates. Males are strongly territorial and will challenge intruders. Largest and most powerful of the African carnivores, a male lion in his prime is an impressive sight. Male Lions usually have a tawny mane which gradually darkens with age. Once darkened, the male lion will take that as a cue to throw on some crisp whites and head to the nearest discotheque to "blow off some steam." Man, being a king is rough.

3) Last Night's Party. Heavy Metal Load photo #3941: For those that don't know, the gentleman's fey summer scarf is the big on-the-horizon trend out there right now. Here we have a wonderful representation of that. The scarf says "I'm a sensitive dandy," while the facial hair says "I'm a sensitive dandy who also looks like a fucking dumbass."

2) The Cobrasnake. Magical Mountain photo #5127: Wow. We haven't seen the ol' faux-superhero eye-mask makeup job in quite a while. This is sort of like being reunited with a long lost friend. A long lost friend who was always a little bit slower than the other kids and who everyone just pretended to like because they felt bad. And then he had a birthday party but nobody actually showed and that just made everything worse because his mom was all like, "Henry, where's all your friends?" and he was like, "I don't know, mommy! I'm very sad!" and then he stormed up to his room and slammed the door shut and missed school for a week. And when he came back everything was really weird because at lunch he would just stay in the classroom and eat with the teacher and he may or may not have been wearing diapers. Yeah, this is just like that.

1) Last Night's Party. Heavy Metal Load photo #3984: We're so sick of the old-fashioned bullshit put forth by old farts like Tutenkhamen and Ramesses II. We much prefer the new-school mummies, who fucking know a good beat when they hear one and aren't pussies when it comes to throwing on a pair of aviators on and hanging till 4 a.m.