Chuck Klosterman!!!!!!! Okay, this was a good one. There was a lot of randomness, but there were also plenty of pearls of wisdom thrown in. His essay about the Unabomber was genuinely outstanding, on many levels.
Favorite Quotes:
"Nader's reasons for running in 2000 (and in 2004) were unvarnished extensions of what he claimed to represent. He was not psychologically troubled. He was literal, which is received by the public as the same thing."
"Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy."
"If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend: the pervasive habit of writers inexplicably placing exclamation points at the end of otherwise unremarkable sentences. Sort of like this! This is done to suggest an ironic detachment from the writing of an expository sentence! It's supposed to signify that the writer is self aware! And this is idiotic."
"I love the internet. And I will probably love whatever technological firebomb comes next. My apologies, Ted. Your thirty-five-thousand-word document makes sense to me, but I cannot be saved. You'll have to blow up my hands."
Currently Reading:
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, by Gerd Gigerenzer
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