AUTHOR: Stephen TITLE: Shitty Book DATE: 12/12/2004 06:48:00 PM ----- BODY:

I just finished "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman, a senior writer at Spin magazine, a magazine no one should bother with. His writing style is called "associative," which I guess means he compares one thing to something else and makes incongruous references to bands and songs that are meaningful to him. In an essay about the video game "The Sims" he unnecessarily quotes lyrics from the Talking Heads song "Once In A Lifetime." He reminds me of me when I was younger. He also has a fixation on being the crazy or weird one of his friends. Apparently he dated a girl once, and everyone compared them to Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen (he somehow doesn't notice they're actually being compared to make believe). This is a picture of Chuck Klosterman: That man has never woke from a drug binge in a blood soaked hotel room. He couldn't play the part convincingly in a movie either.

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