42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

Someone will be writing a sixth Hitchhiker’s book. And it will not be Douglas Adams. Not that I would expect Douglas Adams to write it at this point, but still. …
Eoin Colfer, the author of the Artemis Fowl series for children, will write And Another Thing…
“My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed [...]

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Sometimes, the opportunity to write a headline just drops right in your lap.
I wish I could take credit for this headline, but I can’t. I can only credit Heather, who has absorbed enough Douglas Adams to do me proud.

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The answer is not in a bathrobe.   
Not even in a cool, blue, red and white diagonal-striped robe. With dreadlocks and a bandana.
I was disappointed.
Jordan the Bathrobe Guy. I’d seen him from a distance once or twice, and marveled at how confident he was, to walk into a bar dressed like he’d just gotten out of [...]

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is something that closely resembles but is not quite like the tea coming out of a Nutrimatic Machine. But at least you don’t spit it out and say it tastes filthy.
See, that’s an in joke. There are lots of in jokes in the theatrical version of what I [...]

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To the question of whether I went to the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is yes, and the question of whether I loved it is double yes.
Am I excited? Yes.
New material mixed in with the familiar. Well worth the stamp of Hitchhiker’s. Not disappointed, not one little bit.
Will I probably see it again?
What [...]

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If you’re my dad, don’t look. Anyone else, read on.

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The answer to the question of life, the universe and everything is
42
I’m obsessed with Douglas Adams, and his too-short body of work, in my opinion.
42 was the answer arrived at by the computer Deep Thought in Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s just a lovely, random number which he picked for no particular reason, [...]

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