The 'Chuck Klosterman' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Chuck Klosterman. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

November 3rd, 2009

A short list of stuff I used to love that I have officially broken up with

Dave Eggers Wilco Weezer Chuck Klosterman

August 31st, 2009

Answering the Googlers’ Questions X: The return of a fan favorite

Since it’s been awhile. . . this is a feature on I Will Dare where we answer the questions that brought inquiring Googlers to our doorstep. Is the road to hell is paved with adverbs? Yes, yes it is. It’s also paved with that shitty Chuck Klosterman novel. What should I wear to a Journey [...]

April 5th, 2009

You’re just jealous

Last week I was arguing with a friend about the sucktasticness of Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl . I supported by case by citing the adverbs, the weird omniscient narrator from the future, and the general amateurish writing. My adversary countered with, “You’re just jealous.” This is often the argument I get whenever I yip at [...]

December 14th, 2008

The 7 worst books I read in 2008 reviewed in 10 words or less

Today Largehearted Boy keeps peppering his Twitter with links to newspapers publishing their best books of 2008 lists. I am making my own list and currently checking it twice. However, while making the list I noticed that I read a lot of shitty, shitty books this year. Because I always want to help the gentle [...]

September 30th, 2008

In case you hadn’t noticed

There’s been some interesting stuff going on over at Minnesota Reads that you don’t even have to be a Minnesotan to enjoy. First, there’s a 6Qs interview with playwright Max Sparber, and the next two weeks have great subjects too though I am not going to reveal who they are. Christa wrote a funny review [...]

September 22nd, 2008

Trying to save you from the vapidness of Downtown Owl

In a Pop Matters interview Chuck Klosterman says, “It was harder to write fiction, but maybe that was only because I’d never done it before. I can’t remember if writing Fargo Rock City was hard or easy.” The fact that he’s never written fiction before is painfully, achingly, stupefyingly, annoyingly obvious. First, there is the [...]

September 17th, 2008

The road to hell is paved with adverbs

It was Stephen King who said the road to hell is paved with adverbs. I think he also said to use adverbs sparingly (yes it is a joke). It should come as no surprise that the only writing quotes I can really remember come from King, since his On Writing is the only writing book [...]

June 29th, 2008

How Chuck Klosterman and Rock & Roll Bookclub made me revise history

I removed roughly a hundred entries from the iwilldare.com archives today. They were mostly of the “I have to clean the kitchen” variety and whining about that one time I had a cold back in December of 2000. Hey, blogging was new then and I thought the Internet really wanted to hear about how I [...]

November 15th, 2006

Chuck Klosterman in the A.V. Club

The Onion’s A.V Club has a little Q&A with Chuck Klosterman, prepare to roll your eyes so often and so hard you’re afraid they’ll get stuck. He seems to think that anyone who pans his book is a frustrated writer who is jealous of him. Barf.

October 16th, 2006

On drunkeness, bookclub, and stuff

Even though I had to cancel my Westernerd party, I commenced with the hosting of bookclub. Incidentally, Dad was let out of the hospital today. Hopefully he doesn’t go back any time soon. So yes, with the bookclub hosting. It was one of our best bookclub’s ever and I’m not say that just becaine I’m [...]

October 8th, 2006

If I were to workshop Chuck Klosterman’s short story ‘You Tell Me’

I just finished reading Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. The book ends with a short story Chuck wrote called “You Tell Me.” Like I do with every short story I read, I workshop it in my head. When I finish a good short story I always let out this [...]

September 25th, 2006

Things that make me happy even though my stomach has staged a revolution against me

• New book day! I got the new Chuck Klosterman and Jennifer Egan books today. • I haven’t thrown up yet, though I feel like I might. • Good Gravy, my adorable Canuckian co-worker who keeps IMing me things like, “you know, I bet you’d really dig this band: Wilco.” Or, “Hey, you should check [...]

August 11th, 2005

things that i hope to do tonight if i don’t go home and stare at the wall drooling because i have no brain power left to do anything else

• leave work before 7 p.m. • watch that stupid topher grace movie because you know, i think i kind of have the hots for him • write about it’s ‘what you like not what you are like’ — you know from High Fidelity, because i’ve been thinkng about that a lot lately • pack [...]

August 9th, 2005

what i don’t like about you

ok, (sorry UH) but i was just listening to the Klosterman piece on The Current, and while it hasn’t made me fall head over heels in love with Klosterman, it has made me believe that Mary Lucia and i are soulmates. really. she asked ol’ Chuck if he had one song that he would ask [...]

August 9th, 2005

i am, i am superwuss and i don’t do anything

after working 11 hours and spending half of those hours in meetings, i decided that i did not have the intestinal fortitude to deal with the urban hipsters who would undoubtedly be flocking to Edina to hear Chuck Klosterman read. instead, i will have to placate myself with his appearance on 89.3 The Current. i’m [...]