What is there to say?

Tomorrow I get to meet one of my all time heroes in terms of success in life. As a writer Chuck Klosterman is not really any different than most other Gen X music critics, but when he branches away from here he becomes interesting.

He looks at pop culture as if it can actually tell us something about ourselves, as if it is more than just the fluff we fill our heads with when we aren't being productive. He writes as if we are actually affected by the music we listen to and the movies we see, and all the celebrity gossip that we listen for. Unlike most other people he doesn't seem to make judgment calls on just how good or bad it is.

Part of this has to do with his ability to look at overall ideas hidden in the way we watch YouTube or root for sports. He is trying to be a fan of the culture unlike so many others who try to cut themselves away from extremely personal subjects they talk about.

As such I try to write in a way that he might see as interesting when I write here on this blog. I try to write a blog that lives up to the spirit of the essays in his masterpiece Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. This is an evening blog. This blog is written in the moments before sleep and meant to be understood in context of the world around it.