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Tim Whitaker in "Philadelphia Weekly" has got the key to Carson.

He didn't break stride. Try to compete. Or be what he wasn't.

And because he didn't try to be hip, he was the quintessential hipster.

Today everybody tries to be a hipster, which is why there aren't any. It's about clothes now, and hairstyle and the kind of music you listen to and what you read and where you hang and whether you can be melancholic on cue. It's become a designation without import. Trying to be a hipster today requires acts of exclusion, which may be why the line to get in is so short.

Carson didn't exclude -- not ever -- which is why millions watched, and why we liked him, literati and mill workers alike.