“You feel chilled because you have no character. You’re a depressing assemblage of pop culture influences and cancelled emotions, driven by the sputtering engine of only the most banal form of capitalism. You spend your life feeling as if you’re perpetually on the brink of being obsolete — whether it’s labour market obsolescence or cultural unhipness. And it’s all catching up with you. You live and die by the development cycle. You’re glamorized drosophila flies, with the company regulating your life cycles at whim. If it isn’t a budget-driven eighteen-month game production schedule, it’s a five-year hardware obsolescence schedule. Every five years you have to throw away everything you know and learn a whole new set of hardware and software specs, relegating what was once critical to our lives to the cosmic slag heap.”
Says Douglas Coupland in “jPod”. He also keeps making references to himself, and really, it’s pretty annoying. Yeah, yeah, Coupland. You’re some kind of Generation X icon. Sure. You invented the term Generation X. Whatever. It’s still kind of… I don’t know which word I’m looking for. Sleazy is close, but doesn’t feel quite right. Tacky? Cheap? Anyway. I keep sneering at my book. Self referencing sure is… meta… or something. And by “or something”, I mean gay.
Other than that, though… pretty good book so far.
Oh, come on. It’s still the 29th. Don’t tell me there are MORE WordPress settings that I still need to mess with!
Oh, come on. It’s still the 29th. Don’t tell me there are MORE WordPress settings that I still need to mess with!
I used the word “still” 100% too many times in the above comment. Oooooh, drunk posting! So awesomely bad. Back to reading bits of a book that I will just need to re-read tomorrow when I can understand them and retain them in memory!
I used the word “still” 100% too many times in the above comment. Oooooh, drunk posting! So awesomely bad. Back to reading bits of a book that I will just need to re-read tomorrow when I can understand them and retain them in memory!
And okay, Wikipedia says that Douglas Coupland didn’t invent Generation X. He just popularized it. Guess what. Self references? Still just as gay. And I don’t mean in the homosexual way, because that’s perfectly alright with me. I mean in the retarded way. And by retarded, I don’t mean mentally challenged. I mean DEAR GOD, DON’T MAKE ME VOMIT ON THIS BOOK, IT’S BRAND NEW.
And okay, Wikipedia says that Douglas Coupland didn’t invent Generation X. He just popularized it. Guess what. Self references? Still just as gay. And I don’t mean in the homosexual way, because that’s perfectly alright with me. I mean in the retarded way. And by retarded, I don’t mean mentally challenged. I mean DEAR GOD, DON’T MAKE ME VOMIT ON THIS BOOK, IT’S BRAND NEW.
Anyone ever notice that I have a tendency to post multiple dumbass comments on my own blog entries when I’m drunk? Usually I confine this kind of behaviour to MySpace blog entries, but I’m feeling uppity tonight.
Anyone ever notice that I have a tendency to post multiple dumbass comments on my own blog entries when I’m drunk? Usually I confine this kind of behaviour to MySpace blog entries, but I’m feeling uppity tonight.
Wikipedia? Pfft Coupland probably edited that…
Is that an excerpt from a Chuck Palanuik book?!
Terrible jks liquor
Wikipedia? Pfft Coupland probably edited that…
Is that an excerpt from a Chuck Palanuik book?!
Terrible jks liquor
Being of an age that puts me on the cusp of Generation X, and relating to much of that book of the same name, I…. hell, I got nothing but beer belches here.
Sorry, “Nevermind.”
Being of an age that puts me on the cusp of Generation X, and relating to much of that book of the same name, I…. hell, I got nothing but beer belches here.
Sorry, “Nevermind.”
I still don’t understand how an intelligent person like you got stuck on stickam..
And please stop quoting from cheap literature. It’s so Canadian!
I still don’t understand how an intelligent person like you got stuck on stickam..
And please stop quoting from cheap literature. It’s so Canadian!