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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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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