Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people do whatever they believe is the right thing to do. Being virtuous is hard, not easy. The idea of doing good things simply because you're good seems like a zero-sum game; I'm not even sure those actions would still qualify as 'good,' since they'd merely be a function of normal behavior. Regardless of what kind of god you believe in--a loving god, a vengeful god, a capricious god, a snooty beret-wearing French god, or whatever--one has to assume that you can't be penalized for doing the things you believe to be truly righteous and just. Certainly, this creates some pretty glaring problems: Hitler may have thought he was serving God. Stalin may have thought he was serving God (or something vaguely similar). I'm certain Osama bin Laden was positive he was serving God. It's not hard to fathom that all of those maniacs were certain that what they were doing was right. Meanwhile, I constantly do things that I know are wrong; they're not on the same scale as incinerating Jews or blowing up skyscrapers, but my motivations might be worse. I have looked directly into the eyes of a woman I loved and told her lies for no reason, except that those lies would allow me to continue having sex with another woman I cared about less. This act did not kill 20 million Russian peasants, but it might be more 'diabolical' in a literal sense. If I died and found out I was going to hell and Stalin was in heaven, I would note the irony, but I couldn't complain. I don't make the fucking rules.

He also appeared in the first three episodes of the Adult Swim Web Feature "Carl's Lock of the Century of the Week" discussing the year's football games as an animated version of himself and trying (unsuccesfully) to plug his book as Carl cuts him off each time. Books
Klosterman is the author of seven books and a set of cards:


Non-fiction
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta (2001) a humorous memoir/history on the phenomenon of glam metal
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005) a road narrative focused on the relationship between rock music mortality and romantic love
HYPERtheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations (2010) a set of 50 cards featuring hypothetical questions


Essay collections
Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (2003) a best-selling collection of pop culture essays
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006) a collection of articles previously publiChuck Klostermand columns and a semi-autobiographical novella
Eating the Dinosaur (2009) a collection of previously unpubliChuck Klostermand essays
I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined) (2013)


Novels
Downtown Owl: A Novel (2008) a novel describing life in the fictional town of Owl North Dakota
The Visible Man (2011) a novel about a man who utilizes invisibilty to observe others. Life and career
Klosterman was born in Breckenridge Minnesota the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Klosterman.

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5 1972) is an American author and essayist who has written for The New York Times Magazine The Believer and The Washington Post and has written books focusing on American popular culture.