Sweet Geek Cuisine: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Magrathea Cake
Behold the whale! All photos: Ruth Suehle If you’ve got a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fan with a birthday coming up, this Magrathea whale cake is easy to make, even if you don’t have much cake...
View ArticleThe Unsinkable Starship Titanic
Douglas Adams’ Starship Titanic A few years ago, I inherited some of my dad’s book collection when my mum decided to have a clear out. Included in the books were all five volumes of Douglas Adams’...
View ArticleGeeky Novel Word Counts–How Long Are You In For?
Earlier this week, I found myself in a discussion about the lengths of various novels. It was spurred by two similar conversations I’ve found myself in repeatedly, based on the recent Game of Thrones...
View ArticleTowel Day: 42 Occurrences of The Number 42 in Pop Culture
42 © Lincolnian via Flickr Any good geek knows that the answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything is 42. But were you aware just how often that number has crept up in pop...
View ArticleBest Audio Books for Family Road Trips
Film still from National Lampoon’s Vacation © Warner Brothers School’s finally out here in the Northeast, while other parts of the U.S. have already been enjoying their summer vacations for weeks. That...
View ArticleNine Badass Quotes That Motivate
Rockstar guitar. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, Flickr CC 2.0 Need an extra boost of confidence to face your nemesis? Need to get in the mood for a kid-free weekend trip? Here are some of my favorite...
View ArticleTen Years Later and I’m Still Thankful for All the Fish.
Image: Press Release www.douglasadams.com On this day in 2001 Douglas Adams died and the world became a little less nonsensical. He is best remembered for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which...
View ArticleCelebrate Towel Day in Style!
Image: Wikipedia In memory of Douglas Adams, May 25th is Towel Day. Excerpt from Ch 3 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar...
View ArticleBook Review Doctor Who: Shada by Douglas Adams and Gareth Roberts
Doctor Who: SHADA, Image: Amazon.com Back in 1978-1979, Douglas Adams was a Script Editor for Doctor Who. One of the scripts that he wrote, Shada, was never completed due to a labor strike and was left...
View ArticleTowel Day: 42 Occurrences of The Number 42 in Pop Culture
Reading Time: 3 minutes42 © Lincolnian via Flickr Any good geek knows that the answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything is 42. But were you aware just how often that number has...
View ArticleBest Audio Books for Family Road Trips
Reading Time: 8 minutesFilm still from National Lampoon’s Vacation © Warner Brothers School’s finally out here in the Northeast, while other parts of the U.S. have already been enjoying their summer...
View ArticleNine Badass Quotes That Motivate
Reading Time: 1 minuteRockstar guitar. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, Flickr CC 2.0 Need an extra boost of confidence to face your nemesis? Need to get in the mood for a kid-free weekend trip? Here are...
View ArticleDirk Gently: NYCC Interviews and Preview Review
Reading Time: 10 minutesImage: Karen Walsh The first thing you notice about the Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency cast is their energy. Despite being a small cast, they they seem to fill the...
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