― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 7 September 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
you get my drift. he's the post-Cheerios version of those laughable hack newspaper columnists like Bob Greene (who wrote a book about Alice Cooper in the 70s). self-consciousness sells like sex.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I think the problem is that he doesn't take himself seriously enough, and indirectly, that he doesn't take his audience seriously either. If he did, then he would probably try to think through his ideas a little better. Instead I get the feeling that he looks for the "Klosterman angle" on a story - ie., the unconventional perspective that will hold up a sociological phenomenon at an unexpected angle - which will give him the element of surprise. And as long as audience disbelief can be suspended for the three or four pages that a Klosterman essay typically runs, he is satisfied with that. He's not really that serious about the issues he discusses, though he tries to come off as a cross between Malcolm Gladwell and Dave Barry.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I'll put the book in the mail tomorrow. :D
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Oddly enough, all the examples I can think of are men's-magazine sex columnists.
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
The more I think about it, there are a lot of music writers who possess a strong writing voice that yet don't really have that much to say. Jessica Hopper comes to mind.
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 September 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 September 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 7 September 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 7 September 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 September 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I bet Chuck likes Fall Out Boy more than Sleater-Kinney. I know I do.
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 7 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Five Things No Bar Should Have
By Chuck Klosterman
1. Natural light. Bars are supposed to be womblike sanctuaries, separate from the blinding bleakness of mainstream society. They should always be poorly lit, and they should not have windows. If I'm drinking at 3:00 P.M., the sun should not remind me what time it is.
2. Patrons who are reading. Darkness also discourages all the bozos who think people will be impressed if they're seen reading in a bar, which is as cool as being drunk at Barnes & Noble.
3. Loud music. There is a belief among many bar owners that loud music creates intimacy (which theoretically increases the possibility of romantic interplay, thereby prompting people to return) by forcing patrons to sit closer together and scream directly into one another's ears. Everybody hates this. I have never been in a bar where people complained about the music being too soft.
4. Dogs. Never bring your dog into a bar. Ever. They're not clean, and they make the place feel like a veterinarian's office. How is it that you can't have a lit cigarette in any bar in New York or L.A., but you can have a pit bull? I understand that cigarettes cause cancer; they do not, however, rip the faces off small children.
5. Twenty-two-year-old female bartenders who "just wanna party." I already have enough problems. That's why I came to the bar.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
2. He's can't be out pretensed
3. He's old
4. He's got no dawgs yo
5. all of the above
― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I've arrived early today, well before sunset, to make some demands that you help me get laid tonight. As you can see, I'm not naturally attractive, and I'm getting quite old. Can you tailor this entire evening to my needs in this quest? They are great indeed. I've written articles, books, and even been interviewed on TV. I understand the power of networking. This is why I've come to you.
Love,I don't need to tell you my name, I was on TV once
― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
klosterman otm on all other counts
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
^^ lol @ pappawheelie in "character"
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link