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Douglas Adams Back On Radio
starvo writes "Looks like Douglas Adams, and the BBC are teaming up again.. This time for the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Future" On BBC radio, premiering October 4th.
The Hitchhiker's Guide site has more information.
" It looks like you can listen to snippets of it in RealAudio. The interview stuff with Brian Eno [?] looks to very interesting as well.
The British have something known as humour which includes something called irony so called because it can get quite heavy.
Without of course forgetting the /. teutonic link recently, the German word is .
Oh, apparently they don't actually have a word for it.
Unless you count buying Rover, and remaking the Mini so it looks Wagnerian.
Ps, the humour has to shine in Britain, because the sun never does.
Go to a place where a lot of people aggregate, such as a beach. Notice all those people with towels there? *That's* how much the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has influenced our society.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
It's cool that some of the great writers return to their works and make their modern-day comparisons.
Huxley, who wrote the dystopian novel "Brave New World," returned to it in the essay "Brave New World Revisited."
Clarke, who set the bar with "2001", has pushed it up further than any of us can argue with in the last installment, "3001."
I used to be someone else. Now I'm someone better.
Real life is underrated.
But, is DNA doing these commentaries in a serious vein (which would be interesting), or a humourous slant (which would also be interesting and more in keeping with his style)? Either way, I suddenly wish they let me listen to streaming media at work. ;)
-TBHiX-
HGTG is cool, slashdot is not ... I'd like some insight or something, not a bunch of lame "42" jokes.
You are post #21, which is half of 42.
So you are half right.
Does this mean that I am not a geek? I am surprised Katz hasn't written on the subject.
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