Recently read: Eating the Dinosaur, by Chuck Klosterman
Klosterman continues his run as the most earnest essayist working today. The highlights from this collection are “What We Talk About When We Talk About Ralph Sampson” (self-summarizing), “‘Ha ha,’ he said. ‘Ha ha.’” (on laugh tracks), and “T Is for True” (on the literalism of Rivers Cuomo, Werner Herzog and Ralph Nader), as well as this justification for writing an essay on the ethics of time travel:
The only massive ideas everyone can discuss rationally are big ideas that don’t specifically apply to anyone, which is why a debate over the ethics of time travel is worthwhile: No one has any personal investment whatsoever. It’s only theoretical. Which means no one has any reason to lie.
