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

Pittsburghers always had 'triskadekaphilia' because our public television station was Channel 13. That was our station for theatre, and concerts, and opera...oh, and 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood', which we got before the rest of the world because it originated there. This only makes sense: the Land of Make-Believe is accessed by a Pittsburgh-style trolley.

Betty Aberlin bade King Friday a happy birthday on Twitter today, and shared this brilliant King Friday poem with us.

'Scintillate, Scintillate diminutive stellar orb.
How inexplicable to me seems the stupendous problem of your existence. Elevated at such at an immeasurable distance, in an apparently perpendicular direction from this terrestrial planet which we occupy,
Resembling in thy dazzling and unapproachable effulgence,
a gem of purest carbon,
set solitaire
in a university of space'

(This, of course, is from the genius who gave us 'Propel, propel, propel your craft, gently down liquid solution...')

The moon is full tonight. Go moonbathing, triskadekaphiles.

Sing along with the magical Susan Osborn:

http://susanosborn.com/audio/SUSAN_OSBORN-Moonbathing_hifi.mp3

Bloody hell! So it is, I would have missed it had I NOT seen this thread Dmitri
I'll do anything that's unluckyas in - walk under ladders, break mirrors etc etc and a stupid one here ? walk on the cracks in the pavements (sidewalks)

My latest saying is:- my luck is that bad, if I went to HELL for a 2 week holiday, I'd still come home without a tan

in a 3 horse race, I'd come 4th