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A review by katrinky
Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities by Chris Kluwe
3.0
I liked this book. I like that Kluwe is unflappably curious, and passionate, and irreverent in the face of authority. I like that he knows he's overpaid, and that football is largely ridiculous. I didn't like the chapter about honesty wherein survivors of spousal abuse and women (specifically) who stay with their cheating (male) partners are delusional and dishonest to themselves. The people to blame for cheating and abuse are cheaters and abusers. Period. There's more at stake than telling oneself the truth, when physical and/or emotional trauma are involved.
This is at once a silly book (funeral drinking games, literary rickrolls, the index, oh god, the index WHICH IS SO FUNNY) and a deeply serious book (letters to the Supreme Court and several newspapers, and thoughtful essays imagining future technologies and their consequences). It was clearly written hastily, and several chapters are not necessary. But Kluwe is fiercely smart, and so funny, and above all, indelibly committed to his values (most of which I agree with, so this is a pro, not a con). I like that in a punter, and I especially like that in a human.
Gems from the index:
asshole(s):
asshole fuckwits vs douchegbags, 198
Beats by Dre: 100 [kluwe is NOT A FAN]
children
dinosaurs, appeal of, 200, 239
colonoscopies, explodigng, 87, 88
cum-gargling shitmilitias, 43
dumbasses, yourself and others, 133
language, 16-18
Caps Lock and, 135
poop-sniffers, 135
television
Kluwe's wife's favorite shows, 32
As mindless pap, 8
This is at once a silly book (funeral drinking games, literary rickrolls, the index, oh god, the index WHICH IS SO FUNNY) and a deeply serious book (letters to the Supreme Court and several newspapers, and thoughtful essays imagining future technologies and their consequences). It was clearly written hastily, and several chapters are not necessary. But Kluwe is fiercely smart, and so funny, and above all, indelibly committed to his values (most of which I agree with, so this is a pro, not a con). I like that in a punter, and I especially like that in a human.
Gems from the index:
asshole(s):
asshole fuckwits vs douchegbags, 198
Beats by Dre: 100 [kluwe is NOT A FAN]
children
dinosaurs, appeal of, 200, 239
colonoscopies, explodigng, 87, 88
cum-gargling shitmilitias, 43
dumbasses, yourself and others, 133
language, 16-18
Caps Lock and, 135
poop-sniffers, 135
television
Kluwe's wife's favorite shows, 32
As mindless pap, 8