For a while in North American Christendom you had to sport a goatee to be a youth pastor. That trend has been eclipsed by the soul-patch. True, they’ve been trendy for a while now, but in lieu of any other way to trim your facial hair, they’re still tagging along.

Klosterman’s latest book is fantastic. While there’s plenty of wisdom and thought-provoking arguments in the essays, it’s his quips about culture that made me laugh out loud (from Eating the Dinosaur):

His decision to grow a soul patch pretty much said it all: In the ten-thousand-year history of facial hair, no one has ever looked nonidiotic with a soul patch.