The Hipster Olympics is one of the funniest send ups about the Olympics and elitism since Monty Python's "Upper Class Twit Olympics". I was so impressed by the work done on this video that I wanted to find out more about P0YKPAC, the improbably named sketch comedy troupe that produced and starred in the video. I found out they're based not only in Brooklyn --bastion of New York's Hipster scene. P0YKPAC, a self-described evil comedy syndicate, looks to be the  real Hipster deal by being based in Bushwick.

And that's when I got really depressed.

When I first started teaching, I did so as a public High School teacher. The NYC Board of Education thought it would be fun to send me to Bushwick to teach, at a school where a couple of my colleagues and more than a few of the kids were packing heat. A place where two riots broke out during the first 6 months of my stay there and where one student ended up in a coma while another went to jail for killing a security guard.

Yet my most vivid memory of that school year in Bushwick was seeing the walls in the hallway leading to the cafeteria covered in blood after one of the riots. And that doesn't even begin to describe the littany of reasons why I was left traumatized from my experience of teaching in Bushwick 18 years ago.

Yet it's "She died looking into my eyes" the reason I was bummed by this video. 

The last time I was in Bushwick on a professional capacity was last year, when I helped Errol Louis of The New York Daily News cover the story of a husband's failed attempt to save his dying wife from an asthma attacks after the city government had failed to provide residents of Bushwick Houses working elevators during the summer of 2007.

I hadn't been in that part of Brooklyn in a while, but I was shocked at how fast things were changing for the worse. Too many condos being built while the biggest landmarks in the area, Bushwick Houses, where in a total state of disrepair. As I walked to the houses, past all the hipsters and half built condos, I was struck at how they seemed to taunt the landscape with their prime real estate potential. "Demolish me", they seemed to say. "Buy me up and put up condos", they seem to taunt from the distance.

Of course, the question would then be, where would all the people depending on affordable housing, from the poor, to the working poor, to the working and even middle class go? Yet that's a question that doesn't seem to worry most politicians in New York City with their "oh, but it's the rule of the market" disregard anybody who can't pay rent at "market prices".

There's more than a few organizations in New York City trying to address and answer the problems of rampant real estate speculation and development. In Bushwick, one of those groups is called Make The Road New York. It's was through their  video of a protest they held sometime last year on the matter of affordable housing that not only are they trying to answer the questions about affordable housing. They're trying to define the causes of the housing crisis and guess who makes a guest appearance? Well, why, yes: A hipster.

Wait until 0:38 seconds into the video for the moment that had me laughing again and saying, "DAMN! That hipster video is good". There is a shot indeed of a hipster that looks like he's right out of the P0YKPAC evil comedy syndicate.

For that reason, and for their one powerful political commentary about their subjects, I think "Hipster Olympics" is truly a work of comedic and social commentary genius.