Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants – they’re Canali – and brought them into a tailor and said, ‘Clone these, dammit.’ They just do all the right things. I’ve got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from ‘Gilligan’s Island.’ Douglas Coupland Read Quote
In a faraway land called ‘pre-2000,’ what Earthlings now call blogging was called ‘keeping a diary.’ It’s hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life – instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I can’t switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I’m always so zonked that I can’t appreciate it. It’s like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere’s a research library and I can’t get an elitist kick from it any more. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
It’s sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I’m pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I think way back, the ’20s or the ’30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, ‘Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.’ And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that’s where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
Money isn’t money anymore. Time doesn’t feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it’s evaporated, too, or it’s turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It’s why publishers don’t worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
