2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium

Lynne Perras teaches communication arts at the University of Calgary.

The editors of this collection are highly regarded Canadian humorists:
Freed is a columnist, writer, and filmmaker who has won the Stephen
Leacock Award for Humour, while Mosher (a.k.a. Aislin) is an
award-winning and longtime political cartoonist. Along with celebrated
others including Erika Ritter, Rick Salutin, Brian Gable, and Susan
Dewar, they have created this consistently entertaining look at the
phenomenon of the millennium.

The book, a combination of cartoons, lists, mini-essays, and drawings,
is divided into 10 chapters with such titles as “2K or Not 2K,” “Y
Bug Me?,” and “I’m OK, You’re 2K.” “Awards for 2000 Years of
Bad Books, Bad Songs, Bad Films, Bad Fashions, and Bad Inventions,”
“A Guide to Sex, Culture, Pets, Space Travel and Other Millitrends of
the Next 1000 Years,” and “Predictions for the New Millennium” are
among the topics that are treated in amusing ways. The book, which takes
a cynical view of the millennium hype, will remain timely into the first
few years of the millennium because of its examination of our past and
future; it would be an appropriate gift or read for anyone who has grown
weary of the fuss surrounding the year 2000.