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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less. But When Harry Met Sally gives the powerless, unrequited lover a reason to live.
from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Eli added 4d ago
But Woody Allen changed everything. Woody Allen made it acceptable for beautiful women to sleep with nerdy, bespectacled goofballs;
from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Eli added 4d ago
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Zach Kirshner added 8mo ago
And this is more proof of cereal’s overlooked relationship to American cool: Being cool is mostly ridiculous, and so is sugared cereal. That’s why we like it.
from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Zach Kirshner added 8mo ago
Spike deals exotic animals in his spare time; nobody but me seems to find this unusual.
from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Zach Kirshner added 8mo ago
The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no “normal,” because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. You can’t compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they’re probably modeling themselves after Chandler Bing an
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Zach Kirshner added 8mo ago
Dischner is the only Paradise City member who naturally looks like a GNR doppelgänger. He’s also the guy who makes the trains run on time; he handles the money, coordinates the schedules, and generally keeps his bandmates from killing each other. All of these guys are friendly, but Dischner is the most relentlessly nice. He’s also mind-blowingly id
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Zach Kirshner added 6mo ago
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for
from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Eli added 4d ago
What The Sims suggests is that buying things makes people happy because it takes their mind off being alive.
from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Zach Kirshner added 8mo ago