― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
"The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records. They haven't seen the films that are supposed to be important."
Or perhaps the problem is that Klosterman, a man who claims to be a writer about culture, has obviously never actually read the New Yorker or listened to NPR?
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
"He's a small white man in a world of tall black men. He has no choice but to run around in circles trying to not get pounded. That's the only way he can possibly survive out there. He represents white, middle-class America being introduced to the dangers of the ghetto kids; you have no other choice but to run away from them. Now don't even get me started on why Ichiro represents the overachieving Asian kid in math class!"
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
this paragraph is fucking gross.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
isn't this basically Chuck Eddy's schtick? To engage middle-American culture head-on and take it seriously (no matter how fucking trite or offensive or downright bad it is?)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Re SBTB: I didn't even think the cast was attractive! And I was 14!
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― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Dude, Kelly was hot and I copped my first drum beat from A.C. Slater.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
and yeah, chuck k's shtick is related to chuck e's (and chuck e has expressed some appreciation of chuck k), but chuck k's is sort of a cheap knock-off. chuck e has actually gone to the trouble of thinking about stuff, while chuck k mostly goes to the trouble of appearing to think about stuff -- which is enough to impress cnn.
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― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
To me, Chuck is sort of the original blogger with all the weight and depth that title deserves. In other words, I probably wouldn't ever print out a blog posting by Chuck, but I might save the link somewhere on my hard drive.
― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
"I SEE DEAD CRITICS! AND THEY WON'T SHUT UP!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27870
― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 7 September 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 7 September 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
now i'm kind of afraid.
It may take a while before you realize that he's wasting your time.
if by "a while" you mean "on average, three sentences," i guess you have a point.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/trends/graphic/rasputin.jpg
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Fitter, happier, more populist
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't really believe in "mainstream America" anyway. I don't think there's such a thing.
-- A-ron Hubbard (Hurtingchie...), February 26th, 2000.
That was before 9/11 changed everything, apparently.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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