Of Gold Watches & Tortoise Shell Combs

Listen, I know my life isn’t all sturm und drang. I had lunch with a longtime colleague of mine today. Now, I rarely do lunch. I usually eat a salad at my desk. But lately, that I can combine a work conversation with a change of scenery (that is, something other than my computer monitor)…

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How Not To Disappear

I feel like I’m fading away. There’s only one section of my interview with “Generation X” Douglas Coupland that didn’t make the MTV News article or even my complete transcript. Towards the end of our conversation, he told me (as he did The UK Register a few weeks prior) that “For about four months back…

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