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Posted May 25, 2021 - No Comment

International Towel Day 2021 — The 20th anniversary of a day like any other day….or, not!

Earlier this month, H2G2 fans marked the 20th anniversary since the all-too-early passing of creator/writer, Douglas Adams. Festivities continue around the world throughout the month of May which will also mark also the 20th anniversary of the first Towel Day which took place just two weeks after Adams passed away from a heart attack on May 11, 2001. So you won’t have to have your Pangalactic gargle blaster all by yourself this year, there are numerous online virtual events that you can participate in across the globe.

Posted May 2, 2018 - No Comment

Don’t Panic! National Towel Day 2018 is just around the corner!

Still reeling from having missed the opportunity the last couple of years to alert everyone as to the fact that National Towel Day is just around the corner, I thought I’d get a head start this year so everyone (me included) can plan the days activities for #TowelDay2018 on May 25. From Austria to the United States […]

Posted October 13, 2016 - No Comment

‘Sherlock’ + ‘Supernatural’ + ‘Doctor Who’ = ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’

From the producers of The Walking Dead (that should tell you something right there), Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently, played by Samuel Barnett (Twenty Twelve, Penny Dreadful) and his reluctant assistant Todd, played by Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings). Overall, Gently is […]

Posted July 24, 2016 - No Comment

‘Doctor Who’ meets ‘Sherlock’ meets ‘Supernatural’ in latest Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency adaptation

For more reasons than the law allows, the San Diego Comic-Con is nothing short of pure greatness. Each year, just when you think they can’t top their previous years’ effort, both the line-up of guests and show trailers created and produced with the thought of them actually premiering at the annual event (which happens to be […]

Posted May 27, 2016 - No Comment

Could Hitchhikers Guide be ‘getting the band back together’ for a new BBC Radio 4 series?

As you probably gathered, we just can’t let National Towel Day and Douglas Adams go just yet. Why, you ask? Well, now comes word that BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a new series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, over a decade since the last series aired. According to the British Comedy Guide, it will become the sixth series […]

Posted May 26, 2016 - No Comment

‘Tea Party at the End of the Universe’ with Douglas Adams and Michio Kaku

Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of National Towel Day, the first of which took place just two weeks after noted English writer, Douglas Adams, passed away from a heart attack on May 11, 2001. It was Adams’ classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that alerted Planet Earth to that fact that a towel is one of the most useful […]

Posted May 11, 2016 - No Comment

Don’t Panic! National Towel Day 2016 is just around the corner!

Still reeling from having missed the opportunity the last couple of years to alert everyone as to the fact that National Towel Day is just around the corner, I thought I’d get a head start this year so everyone (me included) can plan the days activities for #TowelDay2016 on May 25. As most of you probably know, National […]

Posted March 24, 2016 - No Comment

New ‘Dirk Gently’ re-boot targeted for Fall 2016

When news recently surfaced that an eight-episode order to an adaptation of the Douglas Adams novel series “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” had been finalized, my immediate thought was a long-forgotten Yogi Berra quote that said, “It’s Deja-Vu all over again“. Especially when I read that the co-executive producer, Arvind Ethan David, commented, “I’ve been waiting almost […]

Posted January 15, 2016 - No Comment

R.I.P. Alan Rickman (1946-2016)

When I read the news about Alan Rickman’s passing yesterday, my initial reaction was to channel Howard Beale, open the window and shout, “I’m mad as hell and not going to take it any more!” First David Bowie and now Alan Rickman. In just a few short days, Planet Earth lost two incredibly talented and […]

Posted November 3, 2014 - No Comment

A Hitchhikers Guide to the Daleks

Now that we finally know the true identity of Missy, we turn our attention to the Daleks. Do we really know who they are? To the casual observer, little is known about the mutated remains of the Kaled people of the planet Skaro. They travel around in tank-like mechanical casings and are a race […]