Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Happy Birthday, Douglas

Douglas Adams by Jill FurmanovskyToday in 1952 in Cambridge, England, Douglas Adams was born.

Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian ... the mice and Slartibartfast and Deep Thought.

Dirk Gently.

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Gone too soon, he is deeply missed.

Douglas Adams . com

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At 10:06 AM, March 11, 2009 Blogger Unknown had this to say...

Hey Ridger, hooray for Douglas Adams! Did you see the link to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on my blgo while you were there? www.mythshifter.com - "Lady Brightside...online satirists." Check it out. You left me a blank message by the way, was that the ultimate liberal sitting on the fence act?!

 
At 6:45 PM, March 11, 2009 Blogger John McKay had this to say...

I met Adams once. He was giving a reading of Last Chance to See in a bookstore where I worked. Most of the writers I met came in two varieties, the very nice (sometimes shy) and the self-important jerks. Adams was one of the former.

About halfway through the reading, he abruptly stopped.

"Wait a minute! This is Seattle. Anyone here from Microsoft?"

A few hands went up.

"I want you to stay after the talk. I have some things I want to say to you!"

 

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