MJ, Fame, Writing, and More

If you're desperate for something to fill your Friday afternoon, and not the comment-leaving sort, you could do a lot worse than spending an hour and a half (give or take) with Chuck Klosternman and Bill Simmons in their two part ESPN podcast. It's nominally about sports, but they spend a good bit of time talking about Michael Jackson (in a sensible way, not a vapid-entertainment-reporter way), the effects of fame, the effect of writing for an audience, and a bunch of other interesting stuff.

It's about a week old, but I only got around to it yesterday. It's worth a listen, though. It also provided the information that Klosterman has a new book coming out in October, which gives me something to look forward to this fall (besides football season)...

(Klosterman is another extremely dangerous writer for me-- I love his stuff, but after reading a bunch of his essays, I have to be very careful writing for the blog, or I end up doing second-rate Chuck Klosterman posts...)

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I've been up late all this week grading things, and I have lab all morning, so I'm not going to do any detailed blogging about subtle aspects of physics.
This is actually Klosterman's first book, but the fourth one that I've read. As previously noted, I'm dangerously fond of his writing, so when I saw copies of a new printing of Fargo Rock City on a display in Borders, well, I had to pick it up.
It's been ages since I did a booklog post here. I've been reading lots of stuff, I just haven't been blogging it.

I enjoy hearing Klosterman on Simmons' podcasts. I'd love it if Klosterman had his own podcast of interviews (well, discussions) with interesting people.

I second the recommendation.