TY - BOOK AU - Klosterman,Chuck TI - Eating the dinosaur AV - E169.12 .K555 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Popular culture KW - United States KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Social aspects KW - Sports KW - Civilization KW - 1970- N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -