Bono

"We're gonna give these kids a ride," says Bono. I look over my right shoulder at the girl from Austria, and I am able to see what it looks like when someone's mind is blown out of her skull; I can almost see her brains and blood splattered across the rear window. The car takes off; Bono drives recklessly, accelerating and braking at random intervals (23)."

It's sort of shocking how much power celebrities have. They're just like normal people only along the lines they made certain career choices and now they're completely separated from normal life and normal people. I feel like this passage sort of embodies the power that Bono has. He can make teenagers go weak in the knees but just like everybody else he used to be a teenager. Klosterman is probably my favorite non-fiction writer, clearly because I use him so often in my blogs. And I think it's because he really knows how to capture an expression. Sure a reader wouldn't really be able to tell that this passage is by Klosterman, but if there were to read the rest of this essay they would realize the clear style that Klosterman has. Even in this short passage about a celebrity, that I personally think is being a little ostentatious, Klosterman expresses the power that Bono has over people through his celebrity.