Classic or Dud: Chuck Klosterman

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hmmm.
i wouldn't have thought there be such 'harsh' critque on the guy here, but i guess if there's anywhere there would be, it'd be here.
i actually think he's pretty damned entertaining, i relate to a lot of his stuff. not all (as i'm totally against his worship of all things radiheady), but most. i'd say, that above and beyond everything else, it's entertainment. nothing really earth-shattering, nothing revealing on human condition, but some semi-valid point, well put together, with a ton of pop culture pointers thrown in to illustrate. 'voice of a generation' is really not a deserved (or sought after, i'd think) mantle to throw on the guy. he seems more with it than some, but far too tuned into media to be removed from it.
all that tripe aside, i'll still read his next book, and more than liekly, enjoy it.

― edde (edde), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

um...radioheady...

― edde (edde), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but Klosterman has never been banned from here, so he's got one on you there...

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Dogs and reading in bars are good things. Klosterman in a bar is a very bad thing.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

Does his reading thing extend to homework? Is homework pretentious? Bars have wifi for a reason.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

i read this at my mom's book store.

in a small footnote in his new book he calls Killdozer a "shitty Communist grindcore band". i don't even like Killdozer much and that pissed me off.

i don't hate everything he's written, but any charm his writing schtick might've originally had is non-existent now.

― how much, latebloomer? (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Klosterman in German actually MEANS men who cluster nervously. in the dark. with no dogs around.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

I knew I could depend on ILM to find 18 ways to shred even a frivolous little FOB piece like that : )

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

YOU KNEW WE WOULD LEAVE A TREAT FOR YOU!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Yeah, but Klosterman has never been banned from here, so he's got one on you there..."

touche, mister wheelie, touche...

― edde (edde), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

which is as cool as being drunk at Barnes & Noble.

Totally underrated.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Klusterf#$k things RadioHead is great? Then I really do think he's a wank...

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'll defer to your expertise in the field.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

SPEAKING OF WANK IT"S YOU AGAIN PEW PEW

Also--WTF with reading in bars? who cares?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/wi2/animepics/images/kings/zoi07.jpg

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Edward Wagemann: where do you live (and why do they let you)?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Someone should start a thread w/that title but then maybe it'd encourage him.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

he'd just give a link to his "blog" (i.e. myspace page)

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I still haven't seen that.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I guess he's not been working hard enough with promo then

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wherever I lay my hat is my home...and no one 'lets Wagemann live' Wagemann lets them live...

Mr. Que, you are welcome to read my blog and post any comments there. I'm always interested in feedback.

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think my favorite bars each violate at least a couple of those rules.

And, from someone who has walked across a parking lot from a brew pub to a Barnes and Noble many times, I would have to say that drunken magazine browsing and bookbuying is seriously underrated.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Que, you are welcome to read my blog

Oh fuck it, PappaWheelie OTM

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

And, from someone who has walked across a parking lot from a brew pub to a Barnes and Noble many times, I would have to say that drunken magazine browsing and bookbuying is seriously underrated.

you got that right, Amigo...eating tacos when you are drunk is pretty underrated too...IMO.

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Here's Bill Maher interviewing Klosterman on his show. Maher is a typical douchebag.

http://www.amazon.com/Fargo-Rock-City-Odyssey-Dakota/dp/0743406567/sr=8-1/qid=1159547518/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1444821-4239222?ie=UTF8&s=books

― darin (darin), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://69.93.254.120/G/storage/site1/files/24/66/59/246659_410329b8e9d154xunst206.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

uh, and he and ultragrrl got 3 of the same results. Terrifying.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

he looks like elton john after a horrifying car wreck

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

can't see why corey feldman didn't come up as a result, that's like 97% right there

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Quick, someone run Wagemann's pic through that thing.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

i'm on it

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Is it just me, or does Chuck Klosterman look kinda like a toasted teacake?

http://www.uga.edu/union/Pics/I&I%20pics/klosterman.jpg
Toasted teacake

http://www.mrsomalleys.co.uk/images/large/110056l_LRG.jpg
Chuck Klosterman

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://69.93.254.120/G/storage/site1/files/24/70/69/247069_105418a32ad154rkhaf804.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

WTF?!

Whole E Shit

― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

BONO HOLY SHIT

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

who the hell is Arnold Bax?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in awe of the George Clooney/matt LeBlanc/Gregory Peck connection on someone that is obv slimey/nerdy/buzz aldriny

― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm disappointed that Klosterman got so much charles bronson

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uga.edu/union/Pics/I&I%20pics/klosterman.jpg http://pages.prodigy.net/pizzabagel/_images/Anne_Robinson.jpg http://pages.prodigy.net/pizzabagel/_images/Harry_Potter.jpg

― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 29 September 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder why Janet Reno didn't pop up...

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Saturday, 30 September 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

he looks more like a gen-x Truman Capote. Which he may well be...

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

no way. capote 10000x cooler looking than klosterman

I've seen Klosterman up close and personal, and he sure don't look like this:

http://www.aldeaeducativa.com/IMAGES/capote.jpg
http://www.bookreporter.com/art/covers/140w/0679643109.jpg

And so far as I know, he never wandered around the Spin offices wearing a velvet cape. But I could be wrong.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.newyorknetguide.com/Zim/Dir/SALLYJESSEE.JPG

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

klosterman fits perfectly into my theory about radiohead, wilco and the impotence of modern bourgeois liberalism.

gypsy mothra did you ever lay out this theory of yours? I remember you mentioning it before in a thread about Dave Eggers ages ago.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Saturday, 30 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

not here i don't think. i went into it on another messageboard once, but i realized i'd have to write 5,000 words to really figure out what i meant. and probably nobody would read it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 30 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Nabisco: mildly defending Chuck Klosterman from ILM's pitchforks and torches since 2003.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

I'm a little surprised that the dude doesn't post here.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

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