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

This is brilliant, Chris. A Post Modern sandwich stuffed with references, no mayo or comments from me can add to its deliciousness.

So I'll just say yes! and be in awe and offer you cupcakes and sparkly things.

Thank you, CC. Cupcakes are always welcome (I tried eating the sparkly things but my plastic teeth let me down...)

Of course, I have to admit that this is nowhere near as funny as ‘Janet and John do stock trading in Hyderabad’ or ‘G’day Cobbers. Let Bruce n Norm rit ure PhD fleeces fur ewe.’ But I’m glad you enjoyed it and spotted the references.

Fun with Post Modernism ----great job Chris, did you enjoy DG's philosophical reference:

http
://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/brunel/A87896263



Slavoy Zizek is such a character!

Yes, I’m definitely embracing Zizek’s multitudinous inconsistent fantasies, but bedtime stories will never quite be the same again.

By the way, I love the picture he chose for this, it illustrates cognitive estrangement perfectly!

Thanks! That artist was known for idealising childhood in a way that is simultaneously attractive and creepy. Joseph Guy Seymour. Here's what the Met has to say:

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/20129?sortBy=Relevance&ft=childhood&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=14

Slight confusion there I was talking about the picture of Marvin and Arthur but the painting by Guy is very interesting. He's not someone I've heard of before but he's impressive. What's interesting is why an English artist would move to New York in the 1850s. Presumably he was already successful before he moved as he makes New York look very bourgeois - not the impression I got from 'Gangs of New York' Bill the Butcher is still my favourite movie baddie.

He's pretty scary, that Bill the Butcher. And he's based on a real person, too.

There was a sharp divide in 1850s New York between the have-nots and the 1%. So what else is new?