Dive into the archives.
- New Coupland Excerpt
There’s a new Douglas Coupland short story in this months McSweeney’s, here’s an excerpt of it. ( I copied it from Coupland.com) A N E W E X C E R P T F R O M M c S W E E N E Y ‘ S 3 1Fucking fuck , there is no place worse than the port [...]
- Things I can’t believe I didn’t know, part 1
So, before they made the abomination that was Jpod – The Series (hi, Bree isn’t asian and descended from the queen) there was a 4 minute short, made by bookshorts, (this is the OMG I am an idiot for not knowing this part) and starred none other than current crush du jour, Scoot McNairy. You [...]
- All I’m losing is me
All this leaving is making me sad. It’s funny, you don’t expect people to leave London, unless they’re moving to NY, cos, where else would you go? Anyway, with all the things that have been going wrong recently, I turned to my old friend Douglas Coupland to find something comforting or at least explanatory.. I [...]
- I don’t like nature – it reminds me of hippies…
I’ve watched the first couple of episodes of jpod today.It’s not quite as bad as I expected it to be (and by that I mean, slightly better than chuck) but it’s not good. They’ve got Ethan pretty much spot on, but Cowboy is completely different than I imagined him. And they’ve made Bree asian, in [...]
- love in the age of office superstores
Last night Lou and I attended the Coupland talk *in celebration of The Gum Thief* at the Bloomsbury Theatre. I’ve seen Coupland talk at this venue twice previously, for the releases of Hey Nostradamus (the boy I was with at the time, fell asleep during this one) and J-Pod (at the time no-one had any [...]
- It’s those little things that fuck me up the most.
I didn’t go see Kevin Devine and Chin Up Chin Up tonight. I thought it might have made me worse. Yesterdays good mood completely evaporated by the time I got to the office. I (eventually) finished Jpod today, and although I didn’t like it very much, and it felt contrived and wrong and like it [...]
