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

Rejecting the pink bow...I like that.

Sure, and you're welcome over there anytime the videos catch the eye.

We need an eye smiley. Just an eye.

You had to be revived with iced water and sugar lumps? That sounds traumatic. I did a pierced ear once, got yelled at, let it grow back... I said, 'But Shakespeare had one...' Oh, the perils of graduate school... I had it done in one of those booths where they had a gun that shot your ear...I have seen it done in the Dark Ages by young women armed with ice cubes and needles...ice, again...

One of my characters had a Born to be Mild tattoo in Hooverville.

I'd love to have been a tattooist, but that's another story...

This, too, is art.

Those were size 10i shoes...the square root of minus one??... I thought it was fuffy at the time...and Luuk has both eyes...he's a morbidly obese Dutch Tulip farmer with a size 67i waist....the the one-eye teddy is real...

Heheheh yes. Luuk. And the one eyed teddy. Ah yes, the one eyed teddy. Still thinking about it.



I often think about numbers. Despite my attempts to learn mathematics, I have now surrendered to the fact that I'm never going to be a mathematician on any level.

However, I still love numbers. The shape and curl of them, when you see them on the page. I guess its like words for me, the shape and curl and dance.



I did a word painting the other day, it was a circle of coloured numbers, and written inside the circle was the title, Numbers Awaiting A Diagram.

Which shows exactly where my life isn't going , but it makes me happy.

Hullo darlin! Yes, I can imagine you as a tattoo artist, in fact. Could be awesome! Imagine your designs as tattoos! For you I'd almost risk it, provided you stocked up with two hundred bottles brandy for when I'd faint.

No but seriously, its an art form, and you'd be the ultimate expert.

I could also imagine your designs on the back of leather (or other material) bike jackets. That would incredibly awesome.

I used to have a leather bike jacket, (even though my bike was a three speed bicycle ), it was sooo amazing, I wish it could have had your designs on it.

heheh. That would be a good line.

Go up to someone and say 'hey, I have designs on your jacket'. They'd say 'you can't have it pal'. You'd say 'I don't want it, but in my mind I have designs on your jacket, can I paint it please?'

And we need a one eyed teddy smiley. heheh. Yes!!



That's a cupcake. I know.

You know what? I've been thinking. Uh oh ..

No, this is serious ..

I think its really good what happened earlier, about the videos.

Its shows that this site is the kind of place that, if people have a need, then perhaps the need can be shaped into an innovative project.

Like, Mister D and FWR had a need for a context to share videos in a more focused context than here, like, celebrate and discuss the art, and meet others who want to do the same thing.

And lo! Mister D started a video gallery in his journal, with guidelines for what its all about so it doesn't turn into an abstract thread. And now you have a film festival there already! And you're linking it in with the Post, and doing amazing things.

I'm reading it, but not commenting, and really enjoying it!!I'm not getting stressed about the inadequate nature of my comments, but also I know that you lot are getting what you need, and that makes me very happy. So I shall enjoy watching the film festival unfold!!!



If the site suddenly started getting much bigger, and loads more people came in, it could be very useful for someone like me to have more organised departments to direct people to.

Like if people drifted in here to this thread, and seemed to be interested in profiling their writing or film or photography or drawings or whatever, I could say 'well even though we do all come out with creative observations here, this thread is more like a melting pot of ideas' and I could direct them to various departments where they could receive the proper display space, attention, guidance, sharp focus, critique etc that they need.

Good that, innit!

You think that's good? I think its really good. And now I'm late for my other life.

So over on that thread, I can ask technical questions about making videos without interrupting what passes for a flow on this thread...ok that's sorted...

Mrs. Phred wants to see her hairdresser and asks my opinion...it's all math...If you go to the hairdresser and don't encounter any virus, your hair might look better and you'll be $150 poorer. If you do run into a virus, given your age and good health there is only a 15% probability of death...but your hair will look good...

We'll see how that decision goes...perhaps it's time to study You-Tube hair cutting...

Since 1955, my dream has been to own a black leather jacket with a chicken on the back

http://youtu.be/qTdVaU5O9x8

Does she speak Italian? There's a video of Italian mayors yelling at people about haircuts.

" I did a pierced ear once, got yelled at, let it grow back... I said, 'But Shakespeare had one...' Oh, the perils of graduate school... I had it done in one of those booths where they had a gun that shot your ear...I have seen it done in the Dark Ages by young women armed with ice cubes and needles" [Dmitri]

I didn't know that holes in ear lobes filled in again. It appeals to my lazy side that any such effort might be pointless because of regrowth.

"One of my characters had a Born to be Mild tattoo in Hooverville. I'd love to have been a tattooist, but that's another story..." [FWR]
Not that I wold ever get a tattoo, but that message would fit me pretty well. The nine principal cast members of "Lord of the Rings"
all go a tattoo in Elvish. It stood for th number 90. One of them didn't want any tattoos, even but they persuaded him.
https//www.tattoodo.com/a/the-matching-tattoos-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-cast-4821

" Luuk has both eyes...he's a morbidly obese Dutch Tulip farmer with a size 67i waist." [Pierce]

He grows morbidly obese tulips? Is there a market for that? What if the customers aren't strong enough to pick up the bulbs?

" I did a word painting the other day, it was a circle of coloured numbers, and written inside the circle was the title, Numbers Awaiting A Diagram. Which shows exactly where my life isn't going rofl , but it makes me happy." [Cactuscafe]

Modesty is attractive. I hope that your life is going *somewhere.* I'm trying to persuade myself that my progress forward, however meager, is still progress.
When Iwlak around the trailerprk, a lot of peole see me and praise the landscape gardening work I used to do. The nce thinghs about plantgs is this:
if you scope out a spot where they will likely thrive, then the only work you'll ever do will be digging the hole and planting them. The plants will do
absoluteluy everyhting else. Example: in 2013, we bought a dozen dwarf Albert spruces for the side of the entrance ramp. The space left between them was
suppsoed to be four t six feet, which we provided. They cost us about eight dollars a tree, and were about eight inches tall. Now they're three or four feet high. A nice return on investmebnt over seven years, but not an ounce of energy has been devoted to maintaining them since, except for a little water during dry spells.

I've never had a leather jacket.

Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation: "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror".

In the phrase "morbidly obese Dutch tulip farmer". the adjective "obese" clearly does not describe the purple tupils...

I knew that. I was trying to make a joke. During the Dutch tulip mania, imagine how much a very large tulip bulb would cost.

I've never not had a leather jacket, at least for the last forty odd years, I have painted a few for friends, do have tattoos and a couple of piercings (now healed up coz I couldn't wear them at work). There is an entry about what to consider before getting a tattoo too.

I knew you knew...

Yes!! Good evening all ye citizins of here, there, and planets yet to be invented..

haha. What passes for a flow? What?? But does the flow pass us? I flow through the passing flow ..

The film festival thread is great! I do think its really good to have the organised and focused space. I just read all the technicals. Will get to the films eventually.

Haven't even got to the Post yet, I blame the nudie beach, it has stolen my time, and pierced my soul, no don't say pierced. again. please.

Actually I want to get an earring now, to look like Shakespeare and dream about FWR authentic painted bike jackets, mmm life is wonderful.

I still miss Chippy and Big Robin and the bendy keyboards, but they'll all be over there at the Film Festival, I know that and I'll be seeing them again soon. I'm just a wayward childe. Its just the comments thing, I've gone all shy, all I want to do is say Big Robin!!! Awww Chippy have you been to the chippy yet?

Hey, I'm just having a laugh, I think its great.

Wait, back inna to consider the home haircut..

Hah! Your hairdressers are open? Cor honestly, alright for some.

Tell Mrs Phred we don't even *have* any hairdressers or barbers open yet. Like, hurrumph.

A lot of our neighbours are very pretty and lovely ladies like she is, and they're managing to look extremely glam and still gorgeous, letting their hair grow longer.

My home haircut is going extremely well I have to say. I've used my thinning scissors around my ears and at the back, so I don't look so much like a spaniel any more. Other than that I now have longer hair, and I look like someone who thinks they look like a rockstar, but doesn't.

The best thing ever is applying coconut oil, like, special stuff for hair, I got it off Amazon, its amazing.

That was interesting wasn't it?



I know, all these decisions, weighing up the odds for everything.

I really like your description of the landscape gardening work you did, paul. How much land is there at the trailer park, like in acres?

That is a thought to think about ..

(a thought to think about? heheh, I typed that by mistake, kind of funny, a thought to think about) ..

.. you scoop out a hole for the plant and it does the rest.

Do you still spend a lot of time in your own garden?

I thought about you and your garden this morning in fact, cos I'm re-reading my book by Derek Jarman, about his beach garden in Dungeness, Kent, UK, and he mentioned Star of Bethlehem, which we were talking about in a thread on the Post, I remember. It was the last book he wrote. It is half photos, half text, which is why I like it. So inspiring. Have you ever read about Derek Jarman's garden?

I don't know his films so well, in fact, but I like the videos he made for the Pet Shop Boys, and The Smiths.

Warm sunlight, the stones on the beach absorbing the heat. I love these stones, South Coast shingle, mainly flint. I bring some home for my balcony rockery, which is in fact just a stone planter full of stones.

I'd like a stone lizard.

I talk to my stones, I know their tones and shapes and odd bits, and tell them that they're artworks.

Sometimes I stand on the planter, barefoot, to feel them beneath my feet.

And they say s'cuse me, Mrs, you just called us art, now you're standing on us? Ah well, its OK really because we're stones, we're much older than you, and will be here long after you're gone.

So you can stand on us and appreciate our wealth of flinty history, even though you're not very good at geology, and we might not *all* be flint.

However, we're all warm in the sunlight, and we like you anyway.

Well, actually, we're stones so we don't really talk like this, but you're allowed to have us as imaginary friends. And your stone lizard. If you ever get one.