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 comedic essays on popular culture written by Chuck Klosterman, a cultural analyst and writer for Esquire and Spin magazine. The book's unifying theme is that analytical thinking can be applied to consumer culture in the same manner that academics and critics have traditionally employed when writing about esoteric art and ideology.

[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 0-7432-3601-7.  (paperback)