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. It is an on-line encyclopedia written by average folks like you and me. Anyone can contribute entries. The idea was to create a real sort of Hitchiker's Guide for earthlings. You can find it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/. It looks to me as though the contributors tend to take the entries relatively seriously.

And the other is an older, more tongue-in-cheek version of the same thing called Project Galactic Guide. This one was created first, by fans. I don't think it was ever endorsed by Adams. Many of the entries are in imitation of Adams's style - some do it well - many do it abominably poorly. Still, there are many good entries: http://www.galactic-guide.com/.

I've been waiting for a good movie adaptation since ... well, probably half my life! I remember when PBS showed that BBC production, I think it was in the mid- to late- eighties. It wasn't all bad, but it was a disappointment overall. This time, I am expecting something significantly changed from the book. Because of this, I think I will like it better. The previous adaptation tried to follow the book exactly and a lot of things just didn't come through very well because of it.

The movie comes out on May 6th ... That's finals week ... that's perfect!