Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.
Douglas CouplandCanadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Douglas CouplandLater, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
Douglas CouplandHISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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