Word: hypercolor
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...what the "three meats" are in the dining hall's "three meat lasagna." It's a big mish-mash of good, bad and often ugly. It's like any normal school--only with a lot more prepsters and Gucci-lovers. But a friend of mine--a "proven" trendsetter (remember Hypercolor? That was all her. Cavariccis? Yup, those too.)--last week discovered the ultimate in cool. It has all the potential of a "crossover"--an unlikely bridge over the oh-so-wide gap between the flannel wearers and the Polo-loyal, between DHAs and Banana Republic. The trendiness began when...
...Generra Hypercolor T-shirt...
...awakening throws jolts her friends out of the isolated, automated, unfulfilling lives they have defaulted into. Then, one December evening just before the turn of the century, Karen's dark premonitions of millennial apocalypse vividly come true in Coupland's hypercolor prose. The six friends become the only survivors in a landscape where "endless cars and trucks and minivans sit on road shoulders harboring cargoes of rotted skeletons." In the future, all humanity has collapsed in sleepy death, money has become worthless, and the endless days are tracked only by the clock on Wendy's PowerBook. "Tennis rackets silently unstring...
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