Do You Know Your Enemy?

An interesting portion of Klosterman's book discusses his relationship with a guy known as "My Nemesis" (Pages 157-164). I found this amusing because Klosterman and his nemesis are Frienmies. What an oxymoron that is! (Hold on, I need to look up the term oxymoron to be sure I'm using it correctly; I'm okay, at least according to Wikipedia....). How can you be buds with a dude who punched you in your face, publicly taunts you via a newspaper publication, and then proceeds to get in ANOTHER fist fight with you outside a bar; then you live with him after he punches your lights out and a few years later after all the crap you've done to each other you still want to hang out with the guy? Plus, Nemesis guy seems extremely bored with talking to Chuck and vice-versa, so what's the point of this friendship? I'm confused. Their frienemy relationship seems strained and phony to me. Its so ridiculous that its actually funny. I take it this is a guy thing? Cuz I don't know of any women that would still be buddies after all of that shit these two put each other through....