Archive for April 11, 2007
A Load For Free
It was my third to last load: a sixty-seven pound air conditioner. I had stripped to jeans and a t-shirt, was breathing heavily and sweating vigorously as my right foot touched down on the last step. “You’re not going to throw that out, are you?” I had called Chris Sunday night. “Man, I hate to…
Read MoreDouglas Coupland: Everything’s Gone Green
I’ve read all of Douglas Coupland’s books. I love his seemless marriage of pop culture currency and left-of-center magical realism. He looks just beneath the curated lawns of suburbia to expose everything from Yuppies adrift (“Generation X”) to Boomer grow ops (“Jpod”) with a dash of wit, whimsy, and a light sprinkling of symbolic absurdity…
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