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One Red Paperclip (Three Rivers $17.95)
Born in New Westminster in 1979 and raised in Belcarra, B.C., Kyle MacDonald recalls in One Red Paperclip (Three Rivers $17.95) how he was between jobs and relying on his girlfriend to pay the rent in Montreal when a girl in Vancouver agreed to trade her fish pen for his paper clip.
Using the internet site Craigslist, he traded the pen for a doorknob in Seattle, the doorknob for a Coleman camp stove in Massachusetts, and the stove for a Honda generator in California. Eventually snow-globe collector and television star Corbin Bernsen traded him a role in the film Donna on Demand for MacDonald's newly acquired Kiss snow-globe. Ultimately MacDonald acquired a two-storey farmhouse from the mayor of media-hungry Kipling, Saskatchewan in July of 2006.
When he isn't gallivanting around the planet, appearing on talk shows, MacDonald is back with his girlfriend Dominique in Montreal-and not living in the farmhouse.
In Canada, MacDonald boosted his profile by remarking on CBC's The Hour that he wouldn't go to Yahk, B.C. to make a trade. When the good denizens of Yahk protested, MacDonald upped the stakes, like a good poker player, and vowed he would never go to Yahk unless The Hour agreed to broadcast from the town itself-which they did.
We have seen the future, and it is YouTube.
978-0-307-35316-0
[BCBW 2007]
Using the internet site Craigslist, he traded the pen for a doorknob in Seattle, the doorknob for a Coleman camp stove in Massachusetts, and the stove for a Honda generator in California. Eventually snow-globe collector and television star Corbin Bernsen traded him a role in the film Donna on Demand for MacDonald's newly acquired Kiss snow-globe. Ultimately MacDonald acquired a two-storey farmhouse from the mayor of media-hungry Kipling, Saskatchewan in July of 2006.
When he isn't gallivanting around the planet, appearing on talk shows, MacDonald is back with his girlfriend Dominique in Montreal-and not living in the farmhouse.
In Canada, MacDonald boosted his profile by remarking on CBC's The Hour that he wouldn't go to Yahk, B.C. to make a trade. When the good denizens of Yahk protested, MacDonald upped the stakes, like a good poker player, and vowed he would never go to Yahk unless The Hour agreed to broadcast from the town itself-which they did.
We have seen the future, and it is YouTube.
978-0-307-35316-0
[BCBW 2007]
Submitted on November 22, 2007 in By David.
