Next year I will not forget about Towel Day. Unless it’s already too late and I am caught towel–less.
Don’t forget your Towel!
“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”RIP Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
How did I not know about PAX East? It’s a three day festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. Those three days would be March 26 - 28, at the Hynes Convention Center. Board game tables, big expo hall of new games, video games, music (even chiptunes by Zen Albatross!) …all in my backyard. $55 for a three–day pass.
Awesome. Wish it were somewhere where I will be.
92y:
caro:
In all honesty this is probably where I will end up on Christmas.
Funny, she doesn’t look Druish.
The quality here stinks but I think this performance is also on We Jam Econo, the FREAKING EXCELLENT Minutemen documentary.
Seriously.
I cried.
And learned the button for camera angle actually does something (on this DVD!).
The Minutemen - The Tour - (Live - March 1, 1985)
SST Records
Live at The Stone in San Francisco
- “Corona”
- “Beacon Sighted Through Fog”
- “The Only Minority”
- “Badges”
- “The Cheerleaders”
- “Lost” (Meat Puppets cover)
David Pogue — “Don’t Cry For Me, Cupertino”
Really wish that I knew about the Boston Book Festival earlier. Looks like it was a fun daytime thing to do on Saturday.
How did I just hear about this?!
Christ… and ALICIA SILVERSTONE will be there!
… and a bunch of unknowns like David Pogue, John Hodgman, Ken Burns, and Nicholas Negroponte.
[EDIT: I was taking that lords name in vain, he will not, I suspect, be there.]
