Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs : a low culture manifesto / Chuck Klosterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

United States.

United States--Civilization--1970-.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Scribner trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2004.

Summary:

Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation.

Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of The Empire Strikes Back or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane -- usually all at once. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is ostensibly about art, entertainment, infotainment, sports, politics, and kittens, but -- really -- it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'" Read to believe.

Contents:

1 This is Emo (carnivore interlude) 1

2 Billy Sim (reality interlude) 12

3 What Happens When People Stop Being Polite (Pat Benatar interlude) 26

4 Every Dog Must Have His Every Day, Every Drunk Must Have His Drink (Monkees = Monkees interlude) 42

5 Appetite for Replication (an interlude to be named later) 56

6 Ten Seconds to Love (metaphorical fruit interlude) 71

7 George Will vs. Nick Hornby (Ralph Nader interlude) 86

8 33 (Fonzie recalibration interlude) 97

9 Porn ("kitty cat as terrorist" interlude) 109

10 The Lady or the Tiger (hypothetical interlude) 119

11 Being Zack Morris (50-50 interlude) 135

12 Sulking with Lisa Loeb on the Ice Planet Hoth (anti-homeless interlude) 149

13 The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-like Face (punk interlude) 159

14 Toby over Moby (Johnny Cash interlude) 174

15 This Is Zodiac Speaking (Timothy McVeigh interlude) 187

16 All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers (boom!) 203

17 I, Rock Chump (waiting to die interlude) 219

18 How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found 228.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0743236009

9780743236003

0743236017

9780743236010

OCLC:

55756891