The 'Douglas Coupland' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Douglas Coupland. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

May 11th, 2008

Funny fiction part I

Ask, and you shall receive. So here’s a list of books that I found funny. I am only covering fiction here, which is hard because I find that not a lot of fiction books are funny, at least not funny on purpose. As for non-fiction if you can’t find the funny in David Sedaris or [...]

October 22nd, 2007

Getting things off my spleen

Going back to work after having a week off blows. Hard. After reading The Gum Thief I have convinced myself that I have spleen problems. I am not sure where a spleen is located but I have decided mine is about five inches under my left breast. Al, the cutest girl on earth™, is going [...]

October 21st, 2007

The Gum Thief

Remember how excited I was about reading Douglas Coupland’s The Gum Thief? Yeah, that dried up and blew away leaving a vague sense of disappointment behind. What we have here is an epistolary (god I love using that word) novel featuring the correspondence between 40-something alcoholic Roger, 20something goth-girl Bethany (both of whom work at [...]

October 8th, 2007

As slow as a 1999 modem

Oh God. I came home today and because I can’t do anything but be lethargic, I picked up the book closest to the comfy green chair and started reading it. It was Douglas Coupland’s The Gum Thief. Thank the Lord for sending out The Gum Thief to me. I’m only twenty-one pages into the book [...]

October 2nd, 2006

Exercising the Sister #1 Power of Tune Out

Since I’m Sister #1 I sometimes get to be a bit of tastemaker for the Sisterclub. Now that I think about it, that’s totally delusional. They generally ignore me and go right on listening to their Killers and Dixie Chicks and Cowboy Mouth, despite what I tell them they should listen to. But when it [...]

January 20th, 2006

hellojed

when lerren wrote in the comments about the fate of a hamster named coupland, i knew that name was out of the running. my mind immediately jumped to Jed (and apparently so did Lerren’s), because that’s Daniel’s password in Microserfs. Jed, is Daniel’s dead brother. Jed is also my new iBook. and boy do i [...]

January 19th, 2006

happy international iBook delivery day!

allegedly the iBook is going to be delivered today. we still don’t have a name. lots of wonderful suggestions, i cannot deny that. it also seems that y’all have a knack for picking names that belong to various pets of people i know. . . MacKenzie, Oscar, Oliver. so i’ve come to the conclusion that [...]

February 3rd, 2005

ohmygod. ohmygod. ohmygod. ohmygod. i am never washing these shoulders again

let’s get this out of the way right off the bat. . . DOUGLAS COUPLAND HUGGED ME. me. yes me. i was hugged by DOUGLAS COUPLAND. the stink, sister #2, and i ventured to the Barnes & Noble at the Galleria in Edina to see and hear Coupland read from his latest book Eleanor Rigby. [...]

January 24th, 2005

eleanor rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been

yesterday afternoon, when i finished reading Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby, i shut the book, curled into the fetal position and started to cry. a reaction that even surprised me a little bit. i cried, and i don’t want to give too much away, because there was a (albeit far-fetched) happy ending. i needed this book [...]

January 23rd, 2005

the fatal flaw

i’ve been happily chugging through Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby all weekend. i’m pretty much loving it except for one thing. the narrative jumps around in time quite a bit, some of it takes place in 1967, some in 1997 and some in 2004. i can mostly keep up with the time shifts, though some of [...]

January 6th, 2005

wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door

i’m working from home today. generally this means sitting around in pajama-like clothing with unbrushed hair eating pancakes. today, this is not the case at all. today i had to get dressed and brush my hair. i did however, just eat some delicious peanut butter pancakes so the day isn’t totally wasted. but i had [...]

July 15th, 2003

file swapping

here’s my favorite portion (from memory) of douglas coupland’s reading at the ruminator: “the only CDs i listen to are brought in by my 23-year-old studio assistant. he’s personally bringing bankruptcy to the record companies of the world by downloading most everything there is. yeah, as an author let me tell you about file swapping. [...]

October 7th, 2001

i am sorry hon

i was up much too late reading all families are psychotic and had a slew of odd dreams to pay for it. last night, i dreamt conan o’brien had a crush on me. not only did he have a crush on me, but his studio audience convinced him to fly out to minnesota to woo [...]

September 27th, 2001

we love to make you smile

ya know, whatever you might say about Amazon.com. . . you gotta love their customer service. i sent them an e-mail asking about the new Douglas Coupland book i ordered in June, and that was supposed to be released in September– that i still haven’t got. They apologized all over the place and said that [...]