Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy out April 29

The cover on my copy of the fourth book


So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
The Fourth book in the Hitchhiker's Trilogy.

From the fifth book

Mostly Harmless
The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchikers Trilogy.


JMO

Roger

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I think Hill's real name was Giuseppe Torricelli or some such; traded on the Clint Eastwood flicks. Don't think I ever saw any, because who could match Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and the rest?
Regards, Doug in New Mexico

and following of their own. Which, I guess, proves a subtext of Hitchhiker., that we earth people are much too easily entertained!
Regards, Doug watching the Stooges in New Mexico

I got a DVD for xmas with two of the Trinity movies on it.

My wife doesn't get them. *sigh*

Dan

I played after hours at a job site. 8" floppies and green screen. One of the programmers showed me the code; it was written in Fortran. Quite amazing, I'm told, since Cobol or others were better for text; Fortran is "formula translation"- math.
Zorks were fun, too. That merry-go-round drove me crazy until I learned just to go with it until it got me to the right room.

Don't forget to "plugh."
Regards, Doug in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike ...

6 part radio series, and, last year, a third radio series. Subsequently an increasing number of books and a ? 6 part BBC TV series with much of the original radio cast and some interesting additions to dialogue and plot and truly wretched special effects (self-consciously so, I think, the sunrise sequence was a light bulb slowly emerging over the horizon of a miniature countryside model).

The radio series (now on CD) is completely magical in my opinion, laugh-out-loud funny and thought provoking, fabulously evocative sound effects and stereo effects, and superb choices of music subtly wafting in the background. One of the early running gags is about digital watches (mankind is so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a good idea). I expect the substitution of cell-phones for digital watches in the movie.

Interesting cast for the movie. One of the guys from the Office (BBC Comedy Series) as Arthur Dent, Mos Def' as Ford Prefect, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Alan Rickman as the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android (a stellar choice even though Stephen Moore, the original actor and his metal wastebasket [for reverb] is still available).

Peter Jones, who played the Book and narrator, died in 2000 just before we left England, and has been replaced by Stephen Fry, another superb choice in my opinion.

Nothing however will come between me and my CDs however.

Well, ch.in-ch.in everybody, and I'll have my Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster to go, please.

Rob Boyter

Note from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: A Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster is an alcoholic drink which induces a sensation almost exactly like having your brain smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. Possibly chilled.

For some reason I can't enter chin chin or chin-chin without the dots.

I agree about the casting. If Rickman had done the radio we would be saying the same now about him.

The **** must be a serious euphemism in some other culture recognized by the s/w.
Belgium, perhaps?
Regards, Doug with his head stuck in a pig.

You never know what you're going to get!

Dan

Hope they choose to broadcast Series 1 and 2 so everybody can download them and save them. It's the ultimate all encompasing aural environment, just made for headphones and a quiet room all your own (so you don't look stupid laughing out loud at nothing all the time.

I've mentioned this before but on the record version (you know Licorice Pizza, 12 inches of Vinyl, played with a nail on a stick) the Hatch, which opens at the beginning and saves our heroes from certain death in the vacuum of space at an improbability level of 727,584,310 against (and falling), says, "Come in, hope its worth it." Unfortunately that's not in the original Radio series.

Rob.

Two guys are trying to help their clueless friend upgrade his life and get the girl:
"Let's look at your record collection. First, note that it is a record collection."

My record collection doesn't have a vinyl HH. (But it does have "John Brown's Body," directed by C. Laughton, with R. Massey*, T. Power, and J. Evans!) I did tape the radio series of 20 years ago, but lost the tapes. I recently found tapes labeled 'HH' at a thrift store. (My source for vinyl, and the last remaining earthly quarantine area for 8-track tapes. "Mostly harmless" my foot! ) I haven't listened to them yet.

I wonder if Rhino Records in Pasadena might carry it. Used to be there; more or less the 'factory outlet' for the label of the same name.

"that's not in the original Radio series."
You need to get a life.
*Scion of the Canuck tractor family.
Regards, Doug in New Mexico