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

Nice piece .If I was going to quibble I might just ask for a catalogue number and the recording label,so that I could on a rare trip to a town with a proper record shop get to listen to some of his work.

I see, the trouble is I don't have the faintest idea about record labels and suchlike. I have a copied tape of his stuff anf I believe his stuff is of an age that contracts to record labels regarding rights have become free and therefore there is no definitive source of his music.

It is VERY difficult to get hold of Buck Stiltman's eponymous album, but if you can track it down it is great, you just need to know some good second-hand record shops and have a bit of luck. I'm currently trying to track down the owner/s of the rights to his material to try to find out about any possible release of a CD.

If you can find anything out though I would be HUGELY grateful!

What? oh I see! But surely their must be listings of what track was recorded for whom and when somewhere?How obscure is this geezer.Any well researched work on Gram Parsons should surely include some fotnotes on the subject.Look how much Blues stuff has been uncovered in recnt years.I can remember the time when it was impossible to get any Robert Johnson to the extent that I thought he was a myth.

I'd say it is a similar deal with Stiltman as you say. He is very hard to come by and very little written about him, except in the better researched writing, but mostly period stuff, the stuff written these days like the fantastic Parsons biog from this year don't even mention him!

I just runned around like a maniac for the last hour..on the way back a little year seven girl shouts down the road at me'You've got too much make-up on!' 'I don't wear make-up you silly cow 'I shouted back.I get in a lot of trouble for this sort of thing usually from their mothers who are twice as big as me with lots of'family'.I'm not arsed if they want to hit me. I say'Go on then..' but they hardly ever do.I wouldn't dream of making personal remarks about other people why should disgusting little 12 year olds get away with it. I am pretty much ready to move to a nicer neighbourhood and have a better quality of life.Its not that I get much trouble here but I would like to have a nicer house and play tennis and things.Ohmigod,I must be Cliff'n'Sues secret lovechild or something.

That's highly unlikely from what I hear about Cliff!

I fed 'Buck Stiltskin' into google.Feeling lucky bought up 'the Harvard System for Archaelogical..'etc.There is also a gay porn star under that noame. StiltMAN however I haven't tried yet.Bah!

You'll have to try harder than a mere googling, I had to spend many a night in the British Library and we know what an eyesore that hovel is. Like a college canteen, bred with a modern prison, it should and must be destroyed!

I found you a gay porn star,didn't I? You're never grateful for anything I do are you? Its never good quite good enough is it?...

I'm delighted! I really am! Have a look for John Leslie and you will find a porn star too! Multi-talented and a friend of Ulrika. What will he do next?

Hopefully spend some time in prison....Gosh I'm in a strange mood today.Think I'll pop out for a minute. Right I've got a dilemma and I'm going to ask advice off you and Spanky.So here goes.I had this competition thing saying i'd won £20,00.I kept sending their forms back and buying some of their products thinking it was a wind-up.With the last delivery they sent me a gift certificate to send someone else giving them five grand on top.You have to seal their name and send it back on one part of the certificate and present them with the other part in a gift envelope.
Firstly it can't any longer be a wind up.Second I can't give just one of my friends the money..I've got at least three who could do with it. Second the school my kids go to are desperately short of money for playground equipment.I'd like to send it to my parents to say thankyou for putting up with me but they are not short of moeny like my freinds. The only other option I've got is to put my own name on the certificate and then share the money out between all five projects,I suppose.
I've never won anything in my life and still don't understand if all this is real.I'm really terrified on two counts.First I hope it is not a wind-up and second would I make good decisions with that amount of money? I could for instance buy my house but would it be better to get a a job for a while then buy a house in a different neighbourhood.I know its not loads of money but to me its seems huge.Please don't laugh and give me some honest feed-back.

My Grandmother, a truly hardened cynic and pessimist of the highest order has trained me in the ways of doubt, doubt and a little more doubt on top of that.

It sounds like a pretty weird promotion, you want to find out how they got your details to suddenly start offering you freebies and all that jazz. I'm not sure that I can really offer any sort of objective opinion about this, but if the company is called ***** Promotions or something similar and have their headquarters in somewhere incredibly unglamorous like Wigan, Barnsley or Slough I would be wary. They could be some sort of dodgy scamsters trying to get names and addresses for mailing lists or Time Share trickery.

You should go with your own judgement on this one, if it all seems Kosher to you and isn't conditional on you giving them your kneecaps in 2 years time you may as well give it a go.

Then again...

Oh i've kept every bit of the stuff they sent me.I'll take the whole lot down to a solicitor if it proves to be a wind-up.Lots of the statements have words like definitely in them. Still if I'm not on h2g2 after the 20th of December much you'll know why. Though of course I could log-on from Cyprus or some other last minute destination.

There's always the good old sitting on the fence CAB too!

Hmmm.. sounds very much like a wind-up. Can you post/email the company names and any other details - bra size, sexual preference, current underwear colour etc. I'll see what I can dig up.

Do you want me to have a look for this recording artist as well?

Liam.

Your back with a vengeance then,eh ,Spanki.Back! Back! With your aceing head on.Blimey I just went over to out local shops and a lady came running out and presented me with a hamper she claimed I'd bought a raffle ticket for.It was hard carrying it home but conveniently had a tin of tuna in it.I had forgotten once again forgotten the catfood.Maybe my luck has changed...

I'm not sure, strictly speaking, is ACEs are allowed to enquire about other researchers knickers. I will ask in the feedback forum

Liam.

Oh! You are SO back!

Yup I'm back!

So... are you going to send me those details or do I have to find out myself?

Liam.