About

I ride a bicycle in Los Angeles and keep one of the best NCAA blogs on the internet.

42 Responses to “About”

  1. Kevin Hardcastle Says:
    January 31, 2007 at 10:22 am

    hi, sorry to bug you seeing as we dont know each other. but I was googling my good friends Myles Valentin, who I havent spoke to in a while cause his is a damn flake, and I kept seeing his name mentioned on your site. the number I had for his cell is kaput, and his old email he used in Uni is down too, so I was wondering if you couldn’t pass along his email, or at least tell him I hate him and give him my email. That is if you are in contact with him often.

    Anyway, I am also a Tdot vet and went to school at U of T with Myles. I am out is Edmonton now, oh dear, and miss Toronto and the best basketball team of all time, the Raps. So yeah, if you would be kind enough to pass this message along to that little dirt I would appreciate it. And tell him I said U of T Parkings Services for life!

    Thanks,
    Kevin Hardcastle

  2. Koren Bernardi Says:
    February 15, 2008 at 10:09 am

    I’ve just found Stuff White People Like and won’t stop reading until I’ve finished the whole list. It’s so funny, and your contributions (or at least, the ones that list clander as the contributor that then track back to this blog here) are 100% dead on.
    I finally broke down to write at the Arrested Development one…too perfect.
    Anyway, keep writing!
    Regards,
    K

  3. Sara Says:
    February 18, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    I also followed this link from the stuffwhitepeoplelike site. I am glad I found your site, so I now know what to like as a white person. When will fantasy football leagues make your list? Just curious.

  4. Marianne Says:
    February 19, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    I’ve checked out that other website of yours as well, and I thought I’d tell you that the difficult break-up crap you wrote is utter sanctimonious bullshit, written to bash all those über-sensitive inferior people who will not suffer in silence. Then I came here, realized you write shitloads about sports, and I figured, why bother ranting too long? You’re a guy. No wonder you have no idea what it’s like to have your dreams shattered by someone you love. You’re above all that emotional tripe.

  5. Jay Says:
    February 20, 2008 at 8:16 am

    this mssg is for clander.

    brilliant writing on the stuff white people like blog.

    how may one go about submitting an original piece on the stuff white people like site?

    another thing white people like: writing contributing pieces for blogs that they enjoy

  6. Ariah Fine Says:
    February 20, 2008 at 10:01 am

    Hey, Very creative other site (Stuff White People Love)
    Any chance you’d be interested in being interviewed for the blog http://www.racialicious.com/ ?

  7. Hardcastle Says:
    February 24, 2008 at 12:48 am

    oi. stuff white people like makes me one inch closer to declaring all out class war every day. and in honour of this blog i have been drinking cans of bud and eating the remains of the food in my house on the last of my funds for the month and listening to the dropkick murphys and walking around the neighborhood ripping down pc signs in a drunken rage. all of which make my heart sing with glee.

    otherwise, keep the dream alive. if you ever see myles tell him to shut up and that he has anderson silva’s head and must return it before march 1. that prick tells me i was a vague inspiration for your site and if he is not a lying bastard as usual then i take that as the best compliment ever and the more i read it i realize is like you took rage in 100% moonshine form from my brain by some magical psychotelekinetic process and made it into intelligent and articulate cultural lambasting attacks the likes of which i could never type out before punching through my screen and the wall behind into the next room.

    and of course, of all the conspiracy theories and mega-analysis bullshit people have regarding your site they forget who hates rich white people the most. poor fuckin white people. who, if they are not understood by the rest of the populace as living in a trailer in alabamy, go under the radar much as a young man in a northeast or northwest liberal arts college would in jeans and a t-shirt of his favorite sports team and a 15-20 dollar haircut.

    myles sucks so bad. but yes, you jerk bastards are kings amongst men and should continue this righteous path and perhaps, just maybe, throw a furious spin kick at the next whitey you see with tight jeans, designer $340 aviators, a fat baby in a phat baby carriage ($980) and wearing a tattered beaver lumber t-shirt and artfully disheveled hair.

    fuck them. fuck them so much.

    love,

    hardcastle

  8. Hardcastle Says:
    February 24, 2008 at 12:54 am

    oh shit. i forgot. did you see this:

    http://www.thestar.com/Speakout/Voices/article/306000

    fuck.

    hardcastle

  9. Lisa Says:
    February 26, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    Clander-I have to meet you. I live in greater la. I’ve been reading stuff white people like and I have so many questions for you..like why did you start this blog?

  10. George Says:
    February 27, 2008 at 5:50 am

    Your white people site strikes me as a bit racist. Sure it’s sometimes funny, but I think it’s missing the point.

  11. elizabethjote Says:
    February 27, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    I want to talk to you about possibly doing a book. Here’s my blog
    http://elizabethjote.wordpress.com/ my email is on the about me page.

  12. whit Says:
    February 27, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    Did you go to U of A? I just noticed your blogroll and I’m a Wildcat living in L.A. myself.

    Great stuff.

  13. me Says:
    February 27, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    what about blogs? and commenting anonymously on blogs?? and lists?

  14. Jennifer Says:
    February 28, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Why are you riding a bicycle in Los Angeles? Just curious… people of color don’t do that. especially in LA. just something to think about.

  15. La Gringa Says:
    March 1, 2008 at 8:42 am

    Hi Christian -

    Sorry to bother you here but I’ve been trying to get in touch with you to discuss your other blog, Stuff White People Like. I’m interested in working with you to turn it into a book. If you don’t already have representation, please shoot me an email. I’d love to talk to you.

    All the best,

    Colleen Lindsay

  16. Jennefer Says:
    March 2, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    What’s the GTA connection?

  17. Jennefer Says:
    March 2, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Ah. Read the Why I Dislike Vancouver post. Now I know.

  18. Amanda Berry Says:
    March 4, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    Hey Christian and Jess!

    I was sent a link to stuff white people like, and was shocked when I recognized Christian’s picture! It is really strange how stuff gets around on the Internet. Drop me a line when you get the chance and let me know what’s going on.

  19. Amanda Berry Says:
    March 4, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    wooops, my email address is amandalberry@gmail.com.

  20. Kadi Says:
    March 9, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    I thought I was the only black person who knew this kind of stuff…..until I found out you were white. Did you know this was like essential superior black person knowledge? LOL, jk….but actually I use this knowledge actively! That’s(!!!) how ridiculous some white people are. U however rock!

  21. Ben West Says:
    March 17, 2008 at 9:37 am

    Clander,

    I’m the creative director for a TV company here in Washington DC. My Indian-Phillipina, friend who works at a non profit and I were eating sushi and she was telling me about how she cringes at the American Apparel ads on Pitchfork, (things referenced:5) at which point I went off on Dov Charney and how people are stupid. She go a funny look and said, have you heard of “stuffwhitepeoplelike”? I think you would like it.

    Today my boss brought it up. we are now both laughing across the office, since we keep talking about travel, food, indie rock and the wire.

    We create programming that runs on venue-mounted screens in bars around washington, and we would love to use some of your stuff.

    Drop me a line?

    -Ben

    Ben West
    Creative Director
    Panic Television

    Ben@panictelevision.com

    202-491-4707

  22. Casey Says:
    March 21, 2008 at 9:19 am

    Stuff white people like: jumping on the bandwagon (and publishing your book/blog/tv show).

    Great writing. Hilarious, and makes you think. My favorite: multilingual children.

  23. Jonathan Says:
    March 22, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Suggestion for Stuff White People Like:

    Insurance and College/University Gear

    White people love insurance. It gives them a sense of hope and comfort that should they become sick, THEY will be taken care of.

    As for the college gear… I keep seeing a lot of white people proudly displaying their joy by plastering their car/selves with stickers, shirts, hats, mugs, key chains, etc. announcing to the world they went to . It’s quite funny. I’ve even seen white people put “Harvard” or “Yale” stickers on their car when in fact they went to community college.

    Anyways keep up the good work!

  24. Vic Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 8:06 am

    You forgot a major white people favorite - Apple products. They’re the opitamy of trendiness and you can’t throw a rock in any of the favorite white people locales (SF, NYC) without hitting a white person with a Macbook and/or iPod and/or iPhone.

    Love the blog - very funny and observant.

  25. Amy Says:
    March 24, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    For the Stuff White People Like: The big one is “Wine Tasting” - You have wine on there, but that’s not “Wine Tasting” - if one more person invites me to go wine tasting or tells me they went wine tasting over the weekend - I’ll vomit.
    Oh, and White People like BRAVO; Project Runway, Top Chef, and they can watch it with their “gay friends”.
    Love the blog.

  26. Olivier Says:
    March 25, 2008 at 2:41 am

    Hey!!

    Love your blog. Simply outstanding!
    I’m from France but I can totally relate to it!

    Christian, I’m coming to LA in a couple weeks. Just spent a month there last month and struggled to find really fun/laid back people.
    Anyway, I’d love to meet you and hang out. I will have time and no friends!

    More about me on my video blog (very popular with white people): http://www.winerendezvous.com!

    Let me know,
    Cheers,

    Olivier
    http://www.winerendezvous.com
    olivier@o-chateau.com

  27. Hardcastle Says:
    March 26, 2008 at 11:58 am

    lander. good work on the book deal. you guys are heros. is dirty myles in on that, or is he just gonna be your muscle when you have signings? ha. yeah, its a joke. myles is a sally.

    otherwise, i am glad it all worked out for you guys and i just wanted you to know that i am green with jealous rage as my book will make perhaps $1.50 and yours will make a boatload.

    you jerks.

    hardcastle

  28. C Says:
    March 26, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    I would just like to say that I loved stuff white people like it’s so true thus in turn making it that much more funny to read. In reading I was surprised to find that wearing flip flops or birkenstocks as though they are year round shoes was not on the list, that goes hand in hands with shorts if you ask me.

    Anywho thanks for the laugh!

  29. Maura "Spike" NíConnell Says:
    March 28, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    What a scream your “Stuff White People Like” is! I could swear you’re talking about Seattle, WA where I lived from 1990-2001. I have only one teensy complaint, though. You need to proofread your stuff more. You tend to leave out little words like “and”, “to”, “the”, etc. Want a proofreader? I would proofread your blog for free as I really enjoy proofreading. Let me know.

    Keep up the great work on the blog. You are so on the money about so many things. I think you ought to add this: White people love to wear political t-shirts, especially of “oppressed” “freedom fighters” such as Ernesto “Che” Guevara and any Irish Republican Army figure such as Gerry Adams.

    Just a thought.

  30. gerry Says:
    April 7, 2008 at 1:52 am

    You are all insane…..ADHD is running amok in here

  31. jesboogie Says:
    April 7, 2008 at 5:43 am

    Clander: I need your help! I am a brown skinned dude who has just been invited to a “running of the roses” party!? WTF I am completely unprepared to go to this, I need insight on what the white people talk about at this kind of event. Help me please Jesse D

  32. andrea Says:
    April 16, 2008 at 10:21 am

    haha, i knew stuff white people like HAD to have an SMU connection.

    Spent nine years of my life there (four as a student, five as staff) Strangely identified with quite a bit of it. Not so strange anymore.

    Enjoy… :P and best of luck in that place.

  33. Mike Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 8:07 am

    White people like… guitars

    Everyone likes guitars, but white people have some sort of symbiotic relationship with them.

    I don’t get it.

  34. Annoyed Says:
    May 20, 2008 at 8:42 am

    You are an idiot and all of you people that like this crap are idiots. Stuff white people like seems very racist to me and most of it is rediculous! Get a life.

  35. Mike Says:
    May 22, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    White people love… Che Guevara.

    Che Guevara, Communist revolutionary who became the capitalist world’s best T-shirt seller.

    The worldwide leader of ‘Communist chic’.

    White people love John F. Kennedy and Che Guevara. Which is weird because Kennedy tried (unsuccessfully) to eliminate communism in Cuba.

  36. former sun devil Says:
    May 28, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    bumper stickers
    better photo
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/26744699@N06/2507784738/

  37. former sun devil Says:
    May 28, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    i agree about guitars
    also:

    sunset pictures
    surfing
    going to nba games
    tivo
    flat screen tvs

  38. Dave R Says:
    June 10, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Hilarious photo on Flickr:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionizer/2552437556/

    Photo caption:
    BEER
    HELPING WHITE GUYS DANCE SINCE 1842

  39. Leigh Says:
    June 12, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Consider the topics:

    1) Hating smoking/ cigarettes

    2) Loving dogs/ animals

  40. White Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 11:41 am

    You are an idiot, you only get away with this because you are NOT white. You are just as low as a slave driver. I am not sure if you are familiar with the phrase: “It’s not funny if the other person is not laughing!”

  41. Hardcastle Says:
    July 28, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    myles is a bunghole and sucks at betting on the ponies. if i were you i would wedgie the shit out of him next time you see him. word.

    jermaine and bosh are gonna crush everyone while bargnani rains three’s and calderon hits mach 10 and tears a two-foot deep trough in the acc hardwood as he relentlessly takes it to the rack. believe it.

    so long. your beard is a tremendous hobbitlike growth. go raps go. charles st represent!

  42. mat Says:
    August 19, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    I do a comedy podcast, and i would like to interview you on our show. I recently found a copy of your book in a kalispell, montana borders, and it is very amusing. It kind of made me wanna write a book like this about what black people like, from a white point of view, but who knows. So yea, if you wanna be on the show, check it out and get back to me.
    mat
    thejamhole.com

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