Towel Day: A Tribute to Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy* has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has a great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons [...]

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Before …

This is before the movie. You can tell I’ve been working out. *Sniff* Ayup! Michelle took the picture. She could barely keep her hands off me the whole time. I think those other folks just wanted to be seen with me. I let them stand there next to me there by the wall there.  Seriously, [...]

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… and After

Ah, the memories. Happy looking bunch, aren’t we? Hey, I’m wearing that same t-shirt again! I need to change my profile picture. 

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A review of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie

Ten thoughts about the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie: 1: In my opinion, this was the first (perhaps the ONLY) movie yet released this year with two titular h’s side-by-side within the same word. 2: There were a few striking similarities between this movie and an excellent book series I read. 3: It wasn’t my imagination – Sam [...]

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Get Fuzzy and H2G2

Yes! Let’s hear it for the freaks! I’ve heard the movie’s not good. I still look forward to seeing it.  The Get Fuzzy comic strip is by Darby Conley.

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What?! Doctor Who?

I just found out that Doctor Who has been revamped as a brand new series and they already have made three new episodes! Why did no one tell me this? You there! Why didn’t you tell me this? The Doctor Who series had a profound influence on me growing up. My favorite was Tom Baker, [...]

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On the lighter side … H2G2

It’s true! The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is coming soon! Here’s a link to the official movie site. Any web search will give you tons of other interesting sites as well. http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html I’ll add just two more links … one is a really interesting site, the idea for which was Douglas Adams’s own. [...]

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