I can't belive that not one of the fearless geeks on this site, including myself, didn't mention the passing away of one of our most gifted writers. I saw him in a lecture two weeks ago, and he looked healthy and full of life. The odds are good that he has just discovered how to fly, and is having a pan-galactic gargelblaster right now. Hey god, get him another one and put it on my tab.

fearless ubergeek nate mentioned his passing, along with perry como's, somewhere on these boards. now is the long, dark tea-time of my soul.

I actually was just about to place a Memorial Post for Mr.Adams and his towel. But for loss of myself was barely able to notice this one. He was an acomplished writer and has changed many a life. http://www.douglasadams.com/

billy higgins died, too. i failed to mention that.

yes....there was a wonderful/sad article in the LA Weekly about him

more people who died.

you guys sure are spunky. as dorky as I am, I never read more than the first chapter of Hitchiker. I had a friend in high school though who everytime I hear someone mention Douglas Adams, I think of. Dirk Trachy. (That was his name.) He was one of those kids that I'd probably fuck in a heartbeat now but back then I kept our friendship at a distance. (I was a bitch.) Anyway, he talked in this really goofy voice and was always convinced that if he thought about it enough, he could walk through walls. We'd be sitting in the lobby, and Dirk and his skinny ass little self with the big old tennis shoes, would come walking through, and the next thing you know, he's on the ground with a bruise on his forehead. He always carried a copy of Hitchiker's Guide with him everywhere. He called it his bible. He told me he loved me and I laughed at him. (God I was a bitch.) And it's funny, because as much as I picked on him at the time, he's one of the ones I remember now the most...

you bitch.

eat me. i admitted it didn't i?

eat yourself.

that'd be a neat trick. yesireee.

sad. stop reminding me that he's dead. I just found out today. Hail the man that brought us the mattress swamp planet, Fenchurch, and my favorite: the 'Somebody Else's Problem' disguise generator. Back in highschool i had to buy a large scientific calculator for math class, and i wrote DON'T PANIC on the front of it with White Out. 42 is still the answer

hellava good autobiography it was. now that Carl Sagan is on the other side, I bet the phrase "we are made of the stuff of the stars" has taken on new meaning for him....

I dug the original "Hitchiker's" trilogy a lot but between the Dirk Gently series and "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" I think Douglas Adams ran out of steam for me....still he was there at a good time for me in my life and I'm sorry he's gone.

Does anyone know the Neil Gaiman book about him? Someone mentioned it, a filthy rumor, but I don't know if it's true...

Ahh yes the ever incresingly ill named Hitchikers Trilogy. When I was in highschool I was on the newspaper staff, we had a whole digital lab, even our darkroom was digital. (in fact that is where i became a sorabjite.) Anyway, we had gone out one night and stole the mile marker 42 sign and hung it in the wall of the darkroom. It was our pride and joy.

Dirk used to open my notebooks when I wasn't looking, and on some random page scrawl "So Long And Thanks For The Fish" so I'd find it a month or two later when I turned to that page. You know, I even tried to hunt that boy down on the net last night and failed.

Keep trying Kalli.... He's out there. Probably rich as all hell too.

Yea he probably is...although I think he wanted to be a writer too..so he's probably waiting tables.... (im jaded) It's funny when you remember someone you haven't thought of in a long time.... Sometimes I like that I'm so far away from everyone I grew up with, and sometimes, I wish I could just run next door and be there. I'm preparing myself for this trip to Boston this weekend. It'll be a doozie. I did a search for Dirk's name on the net and the only thing I came up with is one article he did for some little newspaper while he was in college. Do a search for my name and I'm everywhere. Heh.

Hey Kalli, what state? I'm bored so I figured I'd do a little researching for you, see if I can find this long lost Adams fan. Figure it will be my way of showing my respects to the departed. Email me any info you might have about said fellow, and I shall do my best.

until yesterday, i would never associate that name, to those books. I've never read a damn one of them, and most likely won't.

Your going to miss out on some almost Sorabjisk insanity.

the work douglas adams was important in that it interested some non-readers enough that they picked up some books. in that way his oeuvre ranks up there with, say, that of the "sweet valley high" authors.

mmm. sweet valley high.

yeah, I've read more than one of that series too.

i have several friends that worked on that show