Douglas Coupland, the Canadian author of Generation X and Microserfs, is releasing a series of videos on YouTube to promote his latest novel The Gum Thief. The video, like the book, is a series of random thoughts of an office superstore employee. Using signage customized with parts of the text and animations of paperclips and … Continue reading Stream of Consciousness

One of the more entertaining daily email newsletters I get is the Very Short List. It's not quite a list, being only a single item a day. Recent items have included a link to a Japanese commercial in which Keifer Sutherland spoofs his 24 character and a neo-gypsy cover of "Born to Be Wild." Today's … Continue reading Short and Sweet

The book I most covet in the store right now has to be Transit Maps of the World. It's a beautiful tome, with maps--both historic and contemporary--of all the world's metropolitan rail transit systems. Want to know how to get to the airport in Kuala Lumpur? Where to change lines in Bilbao? This is your … Continue reading Going Underground