Nine years ago today, Douglas Adams — script editor for Doctor Who, writer of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency — passed away. In commemoration of that: Don’t forget your towel today.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
On Creativity, Comic Books, and TR
I have been feeling creative of late. More creative than I’ve felt recently. A number of projects that were running in background processes and had begun to come up “Not Responding” on the mental Task Manager have started running again. And I’ve realized I’ve not put together the “Yankees Suck” sign yet; I need toContinue reading “On Creativity, Comic Books, and TR”
On Let It Be, Forty Years On
Forty years ago today, The Beatles’ Let It Be arrived, and an era came to an end. The band had already disintegrated in the summer of ’69. Paul McCartney announced that he had left the band in April, before the release of his solo album McCartney. It wasn’t just a Beatles album, it was theContinue reading “On Let It Be, Forty Years On”
On Friday Bric-a-Brac
This morning, while crossing the street from the subway station to the light rail station, I found myself playing an inadvertant game of chicken with a low-flying pigeon. Fortunately, the pigeon blinked first. There’s nothing weirder than looking an oncoming pigeon in the eye as it’s coming right for you. And because it needs toContinue reading “On Friday Bric-a-Brac”
On My Present Musical Mood
I’ve recently been on a Beatles kick. These things go in cycles for me; I’ll listen to the Beatles hardcore (or Lennon solo, or McCartney solo, or Harrison solo, or even Starr solo) for a month, and then I’ll not touch the Beatles for six months or so. Recently, the cycle kicked in. I can’tContinue reading “On My Present Musical Mood”
On Star Trek Magazine’s Movie Spectacular
Within the next week or so, the new issue of Star Trek Magazine, issue #26 in the United States, issue #153 in the United Kingdom, will start showing up on newsstands. Its cover proclaims it to be “The Ultimate Movie Guide,” and all eleven Star Trek movies, from 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture toContinue reading “On Star Trek Magazine’s Movie Spectacular”
On Westwood One’s The Lost Lennon Tapes Radio Documentary
Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, I’ve recently been listening to The Lost Lennon Tapes, a 200-odd hour long documentary on the life and music of John Lennon that was broadcast on the Westwood One Radio Network in the late-1980s. I’ve known of the series for a long time, but I’d never heard it,Continue reading “On Westwood One’s The Lost Lennon Tapes Radio Documentary”