coupland nation

Jpod is my most favourite book & has been since i stole it from my friend Cara after she read "List of Faggy Colour Names" to our creative writing class. if you haven't read it you need to do so now (think The Office meets. . .something equally hilarious & satirical, & clever). P.S. if you happened to catch the short-lived television series on CBC based on the book do not let it cloud your judgments!
its author, Douglas Coupland, is just a genius (he is the brain behind the term "Generation X" and "Mcjob"). i have more of his books than any other author. so i was super excited when i spotted photos of his vancouver home over @ callepompon. i love the little car.

i'm not sure what's in this wall but i like it.

charming.

one can dream...

see the original article here.

Favourite Couplandisms:

"Canadians can easily ‘pass for American’ as long as we don’t accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car."
"Long lives aren’t natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."
"If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal."
"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it’s been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries."

"Gap clothing allows you to look like you’re from nowhere and anywhere.It also allows you to look as though you’re not particularly from the present, future or past, either."

"New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108."

"Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value." (scary!)

LISTENING TO: The Weakerthans- Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961)