Chuck Klosterman article

Kingfish · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:28 pm

Chuck's one hell of a sports writer. I've never read anything from him before, but this article on ESPN page 2 is excellent. Best thing I've read about sports in a long long long time. I've been meaning to check him out and this article defintely will get me off my fat ass. I think ole Chuck and I would get along great.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... man/051108

paper · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:35 pm

good article, thanks.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:47 pm

Sometimes, I think that I may share a brain with Chuck Klosterman but then I realize that he is just talented enough to articulate what I am incapable of.

Quote:

Case in point: I don't think Pete Rose should be allowed into the Hall of Fame (and for all the same reasons you've heard 1,000 times before). What he did was the worst thing a pro athlete can do; gambling is substantially worse than taking steroids because it invalidates the very idea of unadulterated competition. I don't think Rose should even be inducted posthumously; even when his corpse is decomposing beneath the damp Cincinnati soil, his sole legacy should be that no man can ever outhit the integrity of the game itself. On this point, I am completely inflexible, and I am almost certainly correct.

Preach it, brother.

Also, I am a little disturbed by this apparent skakeup at Spin magazine. Chuck's column is now on the back page so I guess he's the indie rock Rick Reilly now? The jury is still out with me but maybe its just because his column was pretty subpar this month.

Good grab by Page 2 though if this going to be a regular gig.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:49 pm

Yailvon Bloorsdale Wrote:

Good grab by Page 2 though if this going to be a regular gig.

It said at the bottom he will have a monthly column, so I was pretty pumped that it wasn't a one-off.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:21 pm

I cannot say I agree, but I necessarily find it entertaining. Quite.

Klostermann is QUAL personified.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:28 pm

Klosterman MAY be about to shoot his wad. His columns have been SERIOUSLY subpar lately.

That one about wolves comes to mind. This is good, he is at least one, but more likey 7-8 HUGE steps ahead of Simmons, but they traffic in the same stuff...at least Klosterman's tasted the finest Bolivia has to offer, while I bet a wild night for Simmons in college involved splitting a 6er of 3.2 beers and giving an MST3K style rundown of one of those movies he so often endorsed with his buddy "Mincy" or whoever.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:42 pm

I think Klosterman had an article in a recent Esquire...the one with Kiera Knightley nips in it...anyway, he wrote a damn good article about how ads are alluding now more and more to threesomes and moresomes. Good stuff. Didn't he write Fargo Rock City?

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:55 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

I think Klosterman had an article in a recent Esquire...the one with Kiera Knightley nips in it...anyway, he wrote a damn good article about how ads are alluding now more and more to threesomes and moresomes. Good stuff. Didn't he write Fargo Rock City?

He does a column in Esquire (almost) every month.

Yeah Fargo Rock City, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and that new one that I havent got to yet.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:58 pm

Yailvon Bloorsdale Wrote:

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

I think Klosterman had an article in a recent Esquire...the one with Kiera Knightley nips in it...anyway, he wrote a damn good article about how ads are alluding now more and more to threesomes and moresomes. Good stuff. Didn't he write Fargo Rock City?

He does a column in Esquire (almost) every month.

Yeah Fargo Rock City, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and that new one that I havent got to yet.

You have it, or should I bring this w/e?

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:00 pm

Sen. Slim Charles LooGAR Wrote:

Yailvon Bloorsdale Wrote:

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

I think Klosterman had an article in a recent Esquire...the one with Kiera Knightley nips in it...anyway, he wrote a damn good article about how ads are alluding now more and more to threesomes and moresomes. Good stuff. Didn't he write Fargo Rock City?

He does a column in Esquire (almost) every month.

Yeah Fargo Rock City, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and that new one that I havent got to yet.

You have it, or should I bring this w/e?

Bring it. I never picked up my ordered copy at B&N. (dumb)

Plus I figure that you would get bored and I buy it. (cheap)

Don't forget my garage door opener as well. Boy.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:01 pm

Yailvon Bloorsdale Wrote:

Sen. Slim Charles LooGAR Wrote:

Yailvon Bloorsdale Wrote:

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

I think Klosterman had an article in a recent Esquire...the one with Kiera Knightley nips in it...anyway, he wrote a damn good article about how ads are alluding now more and more to threesomes and moresomes. Good stuff. Didn't he write Fargo Rock City?

He does a column in Esquire (almost) every month.

Yeah Fargo Rock City, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and that new one that I havent got to yet.

You have it, or should I bring this w/e?

Bring it. I never picked up my ordered copy at B&N. (dumb)

Plus I figure that you would get bored and I buy it. (cheap)

Don't forget my garage door opener as well. Boy.

It's in the car Dr. Suede N. Suede...you just gotta remind ME to give it to you.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:02 pm

You know full well that that won't happen. Nor will you remember to get any of your other shit that is here.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:07 pm

Yailvon Bloorsdale Wrote:

You know full well that that won't happen. Nor will you remember to get any of your other shit that is here.

I'll remember, but i have a feeling I won't be in a state to do anything about it...I can't really promise to try, but I will try to try.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:22 pm

Sen. Slim Charles LooGAR Wrote:

Klosterman MAY be about to shoot his wad. His columns have been SERIOUSLY subpar lately.

Agreed, I could always count on his SPIN columns for a laugh and some agreeable commentary. Lately though? Yikes. This ESPN deal could be a good thing for him.

onebrownjeff · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:04 am

While i'll agree that Klosterman's Spin column has been down a bit over the last few months, the same cannot be said for his monthly Esquire column. Its strange, but his Esquire work over the last couple of years have been far better than any of his books. His column on the rise of what he calls the Pirate paradigm was brilliant last year, and the previous mentioned column on threesomes & moresomes was pretty astute as well. I don't know why the output in those two magazines do not seem equal - perhaps his Spin column is being ghost written or something...

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:56 pm

onebrownjeff Wrote:

While i'll agree that Klosterman's Spin column has been down a bit over the last few months, the same cannot be said for his monthly Esquire column. Its strange, but his Esquire work over the last couple of years have been far better than any of his books. His column on the rise of what he calls the Pirate paradigm was brilliant last year, and the previous mentioned column on threesomes & moresomes was pretty astute as well. I don't know why the output in those two magazines do not seem equal - perhaps his Spin column is being ghost written or something...

I think they have both suffered in quality..The Pirate thing being the equal of his Wolves article in Spin.

also, I think he just discovered everyone's favorite Dr. of Journalism, because the new book reads like a fusion of a music dork from N. Dakota trying to be Thompson...and while it is still pretty funny, I think Sex, Drugs...will be his high water mark.

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:01 pm

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DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:58 pm

Just read his new column in SPIN, 'My Back Pages' which seems to be the new thing. This one is about Billy Corgan. A return to form, in my opinion, but I'm a sucker for any article that references something I've read before i.e. previous SPIN articles from the last 20 years.

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