Eating the dinosaur [electronic resource] /
Chuck Klosterman.
- New York : Scribner, 2009.
- 1 online resource (vi, 245 p.)
Description based on print version record.
Something instead of nothing -- Oh, the guilt -- Tomorrow rarely knows -- What we talk about when we talk about Ralph Sampson -- Through a glass, blindly -- The passion of the Garth -- "The best response" -- Football -- ABBA 1, World 0 -- "Ha ha," he said, "Ha ha" -- It will shock you how much it never happened -- T is for true -- FAIL.
The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common?; and much more.
9781439168486 (ebook) 1439168482 (ebook)
Popular culture--United States. Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States. Sports--Social aspects--United States.