One of the characters in Douglas Coupland's 2006 novel jPod ( and the CBC television show of the same name ) uses " Chugatussin " as means of getting high, referring to this as " getting ' tussed up.

The novel was a radical departure from Coupland's previous novel, Life After God.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

It also includes the short story " My Hotel Year ", which first appeared in Coupland's Life After God ( 1994 ), and the essay on another Vancouver landmark, Lions ' Gate Bridge, which was published in Polaroids from the Dead ( 1996 ).

The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.

The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

Coupland's interest in the world of Microsoft and technology workers began with the publication of a short story in Wired magazine in 1994.

It is considered one of Coupland's finest novels, with a stronger narrative than some of his earlier books but still providing relevant cultural criticism and commentary.

This is exemplified by the influence of Canadian Douglas Coupland ’ s 1990 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which explored the economically-bleak and apocalypse-fixated worldview of Coupland's age group.

In 2008, Thicke appeared in a major supporting role as Jim Jarlewski in the television series adaptation of Douglas Coupland's jPod.

Douglas Coupland's 2009 novel Generation A refers to Groundskeeper Willie's use of the phrase.

These episodes are the only non-fiction in the book and come from Coupland's own life.

This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel.

The term Generation X or Gen X, popularized by Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, was used to describe the generation that followed the Baby Boom Generation, or those who came to adulthood in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Shampoo Planet is Douglas Coupland's second novel, published by Pocket Books in 1992.

The term, a play on the expression " starter home ", appears as one of the footnotes in Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X.

He developed the Windows 95 startup sound with Brian Eno and also was a character study for Douglas Coupland's book Microserfs, published in 1995.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, Steiner's interests turned to explicitly spiritual areas of research.

Although Abel had already proved the impossibility of a " quintic formula " by radicals in 1824 and Ruffini had published a solution in 1799 that turned out to be flawed, Galois ' methods led to deeper research in what is now called Galois theory.

Subsequent tremendous research efforts turned HIV into the best studied virus.

He turned down more money from Northwestern University, which offered a research assistantship at $ 150 / month.

An innovative, even maverick, leader, he not only kept the school from going under but also turned it into a first-class research institution.

He then turned to theoretic research with whirling table.

Towles next turned to biblical research and writing plays and novels.

These sorts of gains appeared to be impossible to generate, and ICF work turned primarily to weapons research.

Stieltjes originally wrote to Hermite concerning celestial mechanics, but the subject quickly turned to mathematics and he began to devote his spare time to mathematical research.

In Colorado, where he rejoined his friends Gamow, Richtmyer, and Hawkins, Ulam's research interests turned toward biology.

At the same time, within rabbinic circles, " he transplanted the strict and narrow Talmudic spirit from Germany to Spain ", and this, in some measure, turned Spanish Jews from secular research to the study of the Talmud.

Conyers expressed concern that this silence was due to the CIA's connections to these military officers dating back to the creation of the Haitian Intelligence service known as SIN, as Alan Nairn's research has shown: " We have turned a very deaf ear to what is obviously a moving force ... it leads you to wonder if our silence is because we knew this was going on and of our complicity in drug activity ..." Nairn in particular alleged that the CIA's connections to these drug traffickers in the junta not only dated to the creation of SIN, but were ongoing during and after the coup.

In later life, he gave up speculative thought and turned to scientific research, especially in mathematics, physics and astronomy.

* Ammonia Pine ( voiced by Mitzi McCall )-A former cleaning lady who worked at a research lab, Ammonia accidentally inhaled the fumes of an experimental bathroom disinfectant, which had a strange effect on her and turned her into a cleaning-obsessed villain.

With this acquaintance Betty got to know an accomplished writer and poet with a sharp mind ( and a sad past — Betty's research had turned up a beau of Ms. Wyndham's who was killed in combat ), but after a while Ms. Wyndham herself died.

Böttger had originally been trained as a pharmacist ; after he turned to alchemical research, it was his claim that he knew the secret of transmuting dross into gold that attracted the attention of Augustus.

Smith went to California for a meeting, that turned out to be a success, and the computer research team at NYIT now had the opportunity to work with computer animation in the movie industry.

Accordingly, leading international research organizations turned their attention towards improving photomultiplers to achieve higher gain with multiple stages.

These and others ( Richard Baxter, Meric Casaubon, George Sinclair ) believed that the tide of scepticism on witchcraft, setting in strongly by about 1670, could be turned back by research and sifting of the evidence.

Later Cayley turned his research to building a full-scale version of his design, first flying it unmanned in 1849, and in 1853 his coachman made a short flight at Brompton, near Scarborough in Yorkshire.

In 1891 he published Experiments in Aerodynamics detailing his research, and then turned to building his designs.

Though he turned first to biblical research, his chief achievements were in the field of Assyriology, in which he was a pioneer in Germany and acquired an international reputation.

The new BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra logo was turned into a circular based logo in the colour green ; according to research, the green colour was chosen as people associated it with sport.

He had to concede failure in his first published research paper, and turned to other issues in frustration.