Douglas Coupland is, as you wonderful people stated already, capable of rocking our worlds. I don't know which one(s) of his books is/are my favourite(s) because they are all so fantastic and full of the greatest little images and sentences, which piece together into a crazy quilt of literary genius. Blur quotes douglas coupland (or douglas coupland quotes blur, tho I think that mr coupland said it first) on the liner notes for Modern Life is Rubbish... The bit regarding Legislated Nostalgia. I think of that phrase when I remember suburban childhood... it wasn't like TV, yet I see televised childhood and remember mine as somehow similar. I don't understand that. Perhaps a psychology expert could explain that. Also I'd like to apologise to J. Murtagh & the others.. sorry, i don't know your names or I would use them. If my posts are too long or too reminiscent of a ramble to a diary, then forgive me. I haven't been on this list too long; a matter of weeks, i think it's been. I read the FAQ and thought I was in the boundaries of that. If I've drifted out of line, it's purely because my attention span isn't too fantastic. I've enjoyed the posts recently, until content started being evaluated.. I don't mean that as a jab at anyone; merely stating an opinion. so there's my thoughts; hope this hasn't dragged on. I did try to keep this short. now let's return to regularly scheduled programming dave +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+