Tag: Douglas Adams
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RC 279: Froopy – Hitchhiker’s 40th Edition
On Thursday Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams reached 40 on Thursday, the first radio broadcast was 8th March 1978, and there is a new ‘Hexagonal Phase’ to celebrate. So as well as it being #h2g2week on Radio Clash, this edition is celebrating the music of Hitchhiker’s, related space and electronic themes interspersed…
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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reaches 40
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet where on 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8th March 1978 a radio program went…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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Here come the tape rewinds…
Just a note to all that love comedy, or liked the bits I used in Radio Clash Radio Musicola, or want to get a handle on where the Tim and Kirk humour comes from outside of Douglas Adams. They should listen to the 1990 Radio 1 shows of Victor Lewis-Smith, repeated for the first time…
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Pounded by the Biker Rainbow
From Kindle Cover Disasters, this ‘Firsy Time Gay Paranormal M/M Taboo’ porn raises SO many questions, at the very least how does a rainbow ride a bike or hold the handlebars, let alone wear shades or do other things…Douglas Adams had hyperintelligent shades of the colour blue as an alien lifeform, so maybe rainbows? Err…
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Marvin The Philosopher
After this saying from Marvin the Philosopher – ‘Life, Loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it’ (I have the t-shirt with this the real Marvin on it saying that): My second mantra is this: