Alex Blagg is the new Chuck Klosterman

After reading blogger Alex Blagg’s “Vote for Sanjay” manifesto (thesis: We can expose the inanity of American idol by making this charming but untalented performer win), a commenter remarked, “Alex Blagg is the new Chuck Klosterman.” You know what, the Best Week Ever blogger is better than Klosterman, the tired pop-culture reviewer who wrote Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. Compare Blagg’s stirring plan for televisual deconstruction with Klosterman’s sloppily written thoughts about the “amnesia pill” in the latest Esquire. Where the latter relies on the momentum of his name and irrelevant cultural references to push out unresearched swill, the former puts out one theory at a time derived from a single relevant piece of Americana. Klosterman is dead, long live Blagg!

This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Thursday, April 5th, 2007 at 10:44 am and is filed under Alex Blagg. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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on May 28, 2008 at 8:16 pm Rabble, Rabble. wrote:

Wow.

I know this an old blog, but wow. I think the fact that noone’s commented in almost a fully year shows how wrong you are. And I’ll admit a bias: We don’t need a new Chuck Klosterman. The one we have is just fine, thank you.

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