Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto is a collection of essays on popular culture written by Chuck Klosterman, a cultural analyst and senior editor for Spin Magazine.

The book is a loose narrative elaborating from abstract associations or ironic historical happenings, generally with a connection to music or music culture. Topics at the root of these narratives include the social representation of John Cusack, the alienation spawned by manufactured reality, Klosterman's obsession with serial killers and his tradition of watching pornography at Christmas. The cultural truisms Klosterman displays form an overall theme of postmodern interconnection. This theme seeks to explore the idea that nothing is "in and of itself".

[edit] Table of Contents

1. This Is Emo

(carnivore interlude)

2. Billy Sim

(reality interlude)

3. What Happens When People Stop Being Polite

(Pat Benatar interlude)

4. Every Dog Must Have His Every Day, Every Drunk Must Have His Drink

(Monkees = Monkees interlude)

5. Appetite for Replication

(an interlude to be named later)

6. Ten Seconds to Love

(metaphorical fruit interlude)

7. George Will vs. Nick Hornby

(Ralph Nader interlude)

8. 33

(Fonzie recalibration interlude)

9. Porn

("kitty cat as terrorist" interlude)

10. The Lady or the Tiger

(hypothetical interlude)

11. Being Zack Morris

(50-50 interlude)

12. Sulking with Lisa Loeb on the Ice Planet Hoth

(anti-homeless interlude)

13. The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-like Face

(punk interlude)

14. Toby over Moby

(Johnny Cash interlude)

15. This Is Zodiac Speaking

(Timothy McVeigh interlude)

16. All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers

(boom!)

17. I, Rock Chump

(waiting to die interlude)

18. How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

[edit] References

• Chuck Klosterman (2004). Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. Scribner. ISBN 0743236017. (paperback)