Tag: douglas coupland

JPod

Most people are able to sift out the day’s excess information without ever thinking about it, but to the tech worker exhibiting autistic – okay, let’s just say the word: geek – to most geeks, a hug is not a hug, it’s the physical equivalent of holding a novelty marine foghorn up to the ear and blasting it directly into the central nervous system. When you hug a geek, you’re overloading them in a manner they find intolerable. They feel and express shock and revulsion when touched.

JPod

The next day the big drama was that John cast a spell on Evil Mark after Evil Mark ate a packet of...

Eleanor Rigby

“Guns shooting at loaves of bread.” “Coyotes stumbling down an empty freeway....

Eleanor Rigby

Assorted fantasies: “I just think they’re creepy. A week ago he told me he’d had...

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