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Asking the Right Questions

I believe the second time I read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was around when we set the clocks either forward or back, and I thought it would be cool to make that a tradition. Of course it … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Tagged 42, arthur dent, deep thought, dolphins, fenchurch, ford prefect, golgafrinchans, life the universe and everything, marvin the paranoid android, mostly harmless, prak, so long and thanks for all the fish, the restaurant at the end of the universe, trillian astra, vogons, zaphod beeblebrox |

We’ve Got Your Number

Picture by John Vernon Lord I mentioned on Twitter last night that, when I hear the number forty-two, I don’t think of Jackie Robinson, but rather of Douglas Adams or Lewis Carroll. I guess that’s largely because I’m just not … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Douglas Adams, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged 27, 42, 47, alice's adventures in wonderland, jackie robinson, kurt vonnegut, numbers, player piano, queen zixi of ix, sky island, the hunting of the snark, the magical monarch of mo, through the looking-glass |