I really love reading Klosterman’s essays, and this is a great collection, as always. Includes essays on:
- the similarities between David Koresh & Kurt Cobain
- the impossibility (and merits) of time travel — only real reason to do it is if you want to have dinosaur for dinner)
- the way the public reacts to high profile failures like Ralph Samson
- a polemic against laugh tracks
- and then lots of stuff about Abba, as per normal for Klosterman
Great, fun, smart book, and insightful about our modern media culture.


Some followup thoughts on my SOPA post
Feb 3, 23:21 › Travis: Man, SOPA and PIPA just drive me crazy. I am shocked Jan 11, 17:22 › John Stack: Have you considered #OPEN? Personally, it is as far Jan 11, 16:51 › Brad Feld: Fantastic John. I couldn't have said it better myself Jan 10, 15:34 › Robert Kaiser: "What I think we really need to figure out is how