h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Lil, just came from 'Onelist'. Guess I'm not the only one who can love my country but,.......
No, I haven't read Tarot. I think the last Pierce I read was "If I Pay Thee Not In Silver".
Wait....Or was that by O.S.Card? My, but the memory is shy tonight!!

*sits staring at nothing for 2 mins*

Ah, well.....I'll add it my list for the holidays.

Luna

I am trying to brush up on my Russian so I can read Tolstoy in his native language. It will be a year or two before I can get that far though.

Good luck on that!

Did Beeblefish ever get his coffee? Oh well, have mine O

*Stumbles off in search of another cup*

Woo hoo coffee!

*sip*

Mmmmmm.....

*Beeblefish blises out, and wonders if anyone can tell him what would be two good books to read to introduce himself to Heinlein and Anthony*

Thank you Irv! You dont mind me running around and adding little touches here and there do you?

*produces one of those lamps that stretch floor to ceiling with several bulbs and places it horizontally between a wall and a large beem, then places a uv bulb, a red bulb, and a green bulb in it*

For christmas ...

*Finishes his coffee and leaves for Ikea*

Has anyone noticed a slightly xenophobic thread running through the Sherlock Holmes stories?

In every single story (well,every single story from The Adventures of SH and the The Return of SH sets), there is a foreign element to the crime, foreign crims, foreign money, foreign victims, plans for revenge hatched in foreign lands.

It's almost as if Doyle was saying anything that wasn't British was a corrupting influence, or maybe he just liked to have that little touch of the exotic.

*Beeblefish lounges in his Leopard fun-fur-covered Inflatable Ikea Sofa and considers this, sipping his coffee*

I think the latter is prolly true, but I must re-read my Sherlock Holmes collection.

Moriarty was English though wasnt he? If this were so (about Doyle), would he not be an evil foreign Master Mind?

Good food for thought though . . .

Well, I remember that in alot of the novels it was American influence. I think that it was the exotic taste, yes, but I also think that just London, or just England, and even just Europe was a tad too small to hold the kind of crimes necessary to satisfy Sherlock Holmes. I always assumed it was just because Europe was small compared to the US, so of course you'd cross international boundries instaed of state boundries. Wattson had just gotten out of a war in Africa at the start, and by the end they were getting into the First World War... Hmmmm....

~Irving

well, I have heard that Doyle liked to hang out and do opium with Freud, that might have contributed to any oddness.

Freud was an addict? That explains alot!

Oh yes, and I believe he was into Coke as well.
And I dont mean cola.

Say, could I have a Cocacola? (Im an addcit in my own right)

I've just finished 'England England' by Julian Barnes - very good, very clever.
It's about a millionaire business man who decides that his last project is going to be a kind of theme park of England.

Now it's time to get back to some Margaret Atwood

|*| There you go, Beeblefish, one ice cold Coca-Cola Classic

Would you like lemon with that? (sounds strange, I know, but it's actually quite good!)

~Irving

Well, I usually have it with lime, but I will try it with lemon.

To usurp the thread with a bit of a digression, what musicals do people like.

I ask because I am currently watching Guys and Dolls.
(And I just cant get the silly Mark Hammel Guys and Dolls sketch from the Simpsons out of my head...)

'Luke be a Jedi tonight . . . just be a Jedi tonight ...'

Well, I've been in (suprisingly high quality) high school productions of "Godspell", "Li'l Abner", "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum", and "Into the Woods" (in that order). I liked Godspell, Forum, and Woods very much... Abner was just fluff. I saw half of Cats, but I had just gotten over a major illness and the strobe light caused Linda Blair style projectile vomiting in the lobby during intermission. I missed a little girl by about a foot...
Really any Sondhiem is good. West Side Story is good (he wrote the lyrics for that, but not the music). The Fantastiks are good (but I haven't seen that in a long time). Annie isn't bad. I'm going to offend someone with this, but I just cannot stand the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think I'm done for now

~Irving

"Into the woods to find the thing that makes it worth the journeying"

You do have to love Sondheim. But how can you hate Rocky? I just dont understand. Its so ... passionate -- intence --- campy!

I'm not going to argue all the bad points of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I was the Narrator in Woods, but they wouldn't let me be the Mysterious Man because we had too many people auditioning

I also like Sweeny Todd... fun.
One has to love the Mysterious Man.

When first he appears he seems deliterious, but when explained...

Does Singin in the Rain count as a musical? That's an alltime favorite of mine.

Harking back to the Victorians, I read that Doyle also hung out with Harry Houdini and they used to go to seances together.

Lil

Now that explains alot of the tricks that Shelock knew how to do with slight of hand and illusion. Cool