Music means so much in my life. I always have a song in my head, and love to spend endless hours, sometimes sober, typically drunken and/or stoned, relishing in the emotion and nostalgia found in good tunes. I am a man known in my house to weep while watching Little Orphan Annie. I am fascinated…
A nice semi-inflammatory title to get your attention, now we can start talking. Since 2005 I have heard nothing but moaning about the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie. It was just awful right? Why? Because it wasn’t exactly like the books, or the radio series, or the 1981 TV show? “Here I am, brain…
Who North America “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of Indiana, is a remarkable store and museum dedicated to all things Whovian.” Just a short drive out of Indianapolis The Who North America is a stop sure to wow fans of Doctor Who young and old. Whether you are a fan…
A MOSTLY HARMLESS GATHERING “This is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-boggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way round the London Film & Comic Con, but that’s just peanuts to this.” SATURDAY 23rd May, 2020, Hotel Venue, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Join fellow froods and fans…
Stu Hambone’s Quick Galactic Factoid #376 On the planet Dwerin Alpha 3, a Hj’ru is a 276 verse poem offered by a male courting marriage to the parents of the courted. In this poem he explains his love and adoration for their daughter, describes his life’s work and details his current financial situation. The practice…
ATTENTION ALL HANDS! Since 2017 Stand Up for Towel Day has provided a place to gather after a long day of towel carrying for stand up comedy, slam poetry, sketches, improv and more in homage to Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and in aid of Save the Rhino. Towel Day 2019…
Douglas Noel Adams. 11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001 He showed us where our towels are The Frood may have left the planet, but he’ll never be forgotten. Post your favorite Douglas Adams quotes in the comments, or share a story about the first time you read his work.
The Yawful Consolidated Corporation is one of the galaxy’s most well known, most profitable, and least successful companies ever to be incorporated. The people of Yawful 3 are so phenomenally, disastrously awful at all stages of business that other companies pay them outrageous amounts of money to ask them if they think a particular endeavor…
Peter Mayhew, who we all know and love as Chewbacca, passed away April 30th his family reported on Twitter. He is survived by his wife Angie and three children, as well as millions of fans around the world. Other sites can cover his various roles in film and TV, and will recount that he…
Tricks of the light are commonly used to explain alien sightings. The Fraternal Order of Photonic Surfers and Magicians launched an awareness campaign to dispel this rumor because they had become tired of being blamed for every inexplicable thing some nutter claimed they had seen in their back yard while half-cocked on Uloonian Swamp Ale.