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

I've just finished watching Billy Connolly's almost-four-hour joyous appreciation of our country: http://ww3.tvo.org/video/165523/billy-connolly-journey-edge-world-episode-1

and I would recommend it highly.




(Despite being originally broadcast on British television, Effers tells me that the above link is blocked in the UK.)


Billy Connolly is someone who has always hovered on the periphery of my awareness. I was very, very impressed with his sensitivity as a traveller and the sheer joy with which he encountered everything, no matter how cold, wet, scary, smelly or strange to him. This program is about the most pleasurable piece of television I've ever come across.


Billy has set an example I must strive to follow on the road trips I'm planning for this summer . . .


as Jian Ghomeshi says . . .


to be continued (but maybe elsewhere).

and, in other news, soldiers leave Gagetown for Afghanistan: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2012/02/13/011-afghanistan-soldats-releve.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter



Lest we forget that the war isn't over for Canada.

>Billy has set an example I must strive to follow on the road trips I'm planning for this summer . . .<

If your plans include a motorcycle, I respectfully suggest you choose a machine with far superior handling, safety, power, reliability and ergonomics than that Harley Mr. Connolly seems to be riding

He should have done the tour on a Triumph Sprint ST, which I like almost as much as my FJR

I expect, considering my impedimenta, i'll not be using a bike of any sort.



BTW, Batoche is the top of the list for a relatively distant visit.

Love the Billy Connolly doc entirely. I've passed it on and am enjoying it immensely.

Today is Valentine's Day, so I'm going to work Valentine-themed motifs into my post:

Anhaga, is your itinerary going to include chocolate-related stops of interest? Are there any rose-filled greenhouses nearby? :-0

I'm not big on chocolate or roses. It'll be literary and historical sites more than anything else. But I do plan to visit a poet's house. Does that count as Valentiny?

First round is on me if you pass through my hunting ground.

Not sure.


I'm hoping to go back to Blue River (not something you hear every day) and I wouldn't mind going back down the Fraser.

But I also was hoping to head east and south and north: Batoche, Saskatoon (the Paris of the Prairies), Medicine Hat, the Peace Country. . .

I told some of my female co-workers 15 minutes ago that my plan this morning was to buy one red rose on the way to work and then put one petal on each of their desks. Then I told them it would have made me late so I didn't do it.

A different female co-worker just went past my open office door and said "Cheap bastard!" laughingly through it.

The jungle telegraph is working, thankyouverymuch!

"I'm not big on chocolate or roses." [Anhaga]

I'm shocked!

"I do plan to visit a poet's house. Does that count as Valentiny?

Poets sometimes write about love. Are you visiting that kind of poet's house?

Not really.

Sorry.

Hey, apparently that Suzuki fellow is going to say nice things about the capital of Tar Sands Land on his show:

"Onward to Edmonton, one of Canada’s fastest growing urban regions. The Edmonton Waste Management Centre is a world leader in recycling and composting. They’re taking it a step further – they’ll soon be turning waste into biofuel. Edmontonians are completely on board too, something David and Sarika discover when they visit a house being built almost entirely from discarded materials."

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/suzuki-diaries-future-city.html

Thanks for posting the Billy Connolly link(post #17861), anhaga! I 'dug that up' & watched it yesterday evening...he's terrific. I think I had mentioned that I met him & shook hands...back in...Sept. or early Oct. of 2002 or 3. I was in the small crowd waiting for him as he headed out to the limo after his performance at the Jubilee Auditorium.

It's always nice to have someone discover the great things that are being done un your area, Anhaga.

I've listened to Natch'l Blues for years now(since the mid '70s or so). And although I've heard brief mentions of his(Holger Peterson's) career, reading about it in one article clarifies the impressiveness.

http://bit.ly/wvl6Hk

Peterson is one of those fixtures that has just always been around, quietly making it a better place.

For once the picture of someone I've heard on radio matches what I imagined!

Good article about the bad along with the good in Canadian black history.

http://thetyee.ca/Life/2012/03/02/Black-History-Month/