Last night we made up for our dumb-assedness last week and caught episode 2 of Douglas Coupland's JPod, and damn if that weren't a strange beast. Coupland's surreal, self-referential, novelistic discourse on globalism has been transformed into an odd-ball, dry-humored, dramedy miniseries that's strangely addictive. The show centers on Ethan and his fellow programmers in the "J" pod at Vancouver's EA (redubbed Neotronic Arts for the show) campus. Ethan & co. are working on a......

So, we were total boneheads: the TV debut we've been awaiting for months rolls around, and what are we doing at 9 pm Monday night? Having an evening constitutional. My God, what have we become? Yes, it's true: there's something a little cliche about our ongoing love of the works of Douglas Coupland. Generation X appealed to us in late high school, around the same time we thought Kurt Vonnegut was the greatest writer......