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Some might say that it's an incredibly derogatory word for someone who is crippled or handicapped. Oh, but no, no, no. In my book a 'crippie' is a slightly less than incredibly derogatory word for a 'crap hippie'. You know the type. Those with prayer flags at their house, or dreadlocks, or incense always burning, or Marley posters up on the walls, or any variety of things that point to their taking on the trappings of what the hippies were in the sixties without actually taking on the doings of the hippies in the sixties. Crippie meccas include places such as San Francisco [The Mission], Humboldt [all...], Nevada City (which I will be covering shortly), and of course the true nexus, Barcelona [El Raval or any random building with squatters]. Oddly enough, I seem to be surrounded by these folks in all my most favorite spots. Perhaps I'm a crippie myself? Not hardly. I'm much more in to doing things that make this world a better place and not feeling like I need to grow out dreads to show it. That and incense gives me the worst headaches in the world.       We probably all have a crippie in our lives and so now, I give you a name for these folks. Use it if you want. Some of my previous words are better circulated than others, but I'm always out to make the world a place bent around a vocabulary that I've created. Obviously the rest of the world doesn't always think that I'm the bestest sometimes and thusly, praving, kockalocks, and fatcarts are still just part of my own personal vernacular. Someday though, you will hear someone call someone else a crippie and you'll know the source--sarcastic ole me.