First of all, I always manage to miss International Towel Day on May 25th. It commemorates the day of Douglas Adams’ far too early passing. Towel Day is celebrated every year on as a tribute to the author by his fans. On this day,… Read More ›
Douglas Adams
THE INTERCONNECTNESS OF THINGS
The late great Douglas Adams (who shared my birthday, March 11th — I’m sure that means something, but I have no idea what) created a character that I dearly love. Dirk Gently (also known by a number of other names, including… Read More ›
CONCERNING THE INTERCONNECTNESS OF THINGS
The late great Douglas Adams (who shared my birthday, March 11th — I’m sure that means something, but I have no idea what), created a character that I dearly love. Dirk Gently (also known by a number of other names,… Read More ›
ME AND DOUGLAS ADAMS – Marilyn Armstrong
First of all, I missed International Towel Day, which was on May 25th. It was the day of Douglas Adams’ far too early passing. Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute to the author Douglas Adams by his fans. On… Read More ›
THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Surreal This is the second of the two Dirk Gently books written by Douglas Adams, my time-twin except he’s dead and I’m not. Yet. It’s an audiobook and it was written by Douglas Adams and is narrated… Read More ›
THE UNREALITY OF FINDING YOUR WAY HOME – BY TOM CURLEY
AND because this is absolutely relevant to the previous story … here’s one by Tom Curley. I’m not a fan, I’m a zealot. I’ve read all his books. Listened to all the BBC radio series. And watched both movies of… Read More ›
ON THE INTERCONNECTNESS OF THINGS – Marilyn Armstrong
The late great Douglas Adams (who shared my birthday, March 11th — I’m sure that means something, but I have no idea what) created a character that I dearly love. Dirk Gently (also known by a number of other names, including… Read More ›
SYNCHRONICITY: 42 AND 42 – Marilyn Armstrong
Today was Jackie Robinson day in baseball and everyone wore a shirt with the number “42” emblazoned on it. Now, I’m enough of a baseball nerd to know that Jack Robinson’s entry into Major League Baseball was a big deal…. Read More ›
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND FINDING YOUR WAY HOME – BY TOM CURLEY
Marilyn wrote a blog about National Towel Day. That was May 25th, the day fans celebrate the works of the late great Douglas Adams. I’m not a fan, I’m a zealot. I’ve read all his books. Listened to all the… Read More ›
DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT LIFE
Marvin: Life? Don’t talk to me about life! – Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979 There’s a lot of stuff going on. Most of it is exhausting and annoying — and all of it, expensive. In a world where I… Read More ›
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND FINDING YOUR WAY HOME – BY TOM CURLEY
Marilyn just wrote a blog about National Towel Day. It’s the day fans celebrate the works of the late great Douglas Adams. I’m not a fan, I’m a zealot. I’ve read all his books. Listened to all the BBC radio… Read More ›
SURVIVING: OBSERVING NATIONAL TOWEL DAY!
Today is Towel Day. A day of joy for the author of my favorite books, a day of mourning for his far too early loss. If you read the books of Douglas Adams, and in particular, the five-part trilogy beginning… Read More ›
LIFE? DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT LIFE.
Marvin: Life? Don’t talk to me about life! Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979 There’s a lot of stuff going on. None of it — discounting, for the moment, the presidential election (which is a huge discount) —… Read More ›
PASS ME THAT BABEL FISH
Take That, Rosetta! If you could wake up tomorrow and be fluent in any language you don’t currently speak, which would it be? Why? What’s the first thing you do with your new linguistic skills? French, because there are so… Read More ›
COME BACK DOUGLAS ADAMS! WE NEED YOU!
If ever our world has needed the gentle, hilarious madness of Douglas Adams, now would be the time. He was born on my birthday, but five years later than me … and he died in 2001, which seems to have… Read More ›
THE LATE VERY GREAT DOUGLAS ADAMS – MY TIME TWIN
I love Douglas Adams. Although he has been gone from our world for 13 years I miss him as I would miss a good friend. The good times we had together, listening to him read his own books. He was… Read More ›
THE INTERCONNECTNESS OF ALL THINGS
The late great Douglas Adams (who shared my birthday, March 11th — I’m sure that means something, but I have no idea what) created a character that I dearly love. Dirk Gently (also known by a number of other names, including… Read More ›
YEAR ZERO – ROB REID – GET IT FOR 99 CENTS (KINDLE) NOW!
What with the NSA XBox and spying thing — and now the shut down and who know what else coming to get us, Year Zero gets more and more relevant … and hilarious. And right now, you can grab a… Read More ›
Raise Your Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters…
Happy Towel Day. Douglas Adams, we still miss you!
A happy slave to books
Half a dozen times during every month of the year, I see the sun rise and hear the birds sing the morning in. It’s not insomnia. I am in the thrall of a good book and I just can’t stop reading…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 