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

Teetering along, I'm enjoying finding out how they all come together. One review I came across described it as "Baudrillardian bullshit", which I might agree with if I understood it. Can you help?

Judge for yourself. Here's a recital, introduced by Ford Prefect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY2-GRDiPM

And, if you can stick it, here's the Krust version which caught my interest, admittedly at a particularly fevered time in my life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerpGwbLSM8

Now sure I understand exactly what "Baudrillardian" would entail, but this is the guy: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/baudrillard.html

Can't try the YouTube vids now, but I may be brave and give them a try later on.

Now= not

Sounds about right. Life imitates art, writ large. Society becomes a sort of parody of itself... figures.

Sadly when I think of "Hyperreal", it's a classic track by The Shamen.

Hmm. Wiki says Thutmose, Hootoo says Tuthmosis. Who's right/does it matter?

Looks like both are correct. I don't see why it would matter- most references I see offer both spellings, probably to avoid "confusion". Maybe one spelling is more similar to the actual pronunciation or something?

I guess if it's all based on s and s and s and s and such, it could bear as much resemblance to Stargate. I'm going to go with the one in the h2 link I'm using, for solidarity if nothing else - but Thutmosis sounds like some kind of alien bodysnatcher mechanism (*that* would be Stargate).

I just remembered finding some mp3s once of guys who had reproduced ancient Sumerian instruments, interpreted surviving notation and recorded some songs. About as esoteric as it gets, I think

That sounds really !

Is Ed okay? He's been very quiet of late. Bad weather to be cycling.

Last I heard, he was snowed under with work and had a bad case of conjunctivitis, as well as a few other things going on. Hopefully he's just too busy to get online.

Was going to send him an email this morning.

Ed is fine, thanks. A weekend of MAJOR conjunctivitis, which meant I couldn't see the screen. Now in Bristol for some heavy departmental drinking.

Phew!

How are your eyes now? I had conjunctivitis once that required my doctor chiseling my eyelids open in order to put the drops in. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

The drinking might help. No bacteria can survive in an environment of pure alcohol, can it?

Welcome back Ed

This is my first day with two contact lenses in. On Fri/Sat, I couldn't even see out of the good eye because somehow it hurt too much to keep either eye open for long. Plus the infectioned seemes to make me sleepy. I felt like I'd been kicked in the eye and was extremely sensitive to glare.

Why do I smile/ At people I'd rather kick in the eye?...

Oh...and I slipped on the stairs and have bruises and carpet burns on my arse.

Were you wearing pants when you slipped? Carpet burns are excruciating on naked skin. I hope you didn't have an exposed bum at the time.

Poor you.

Are you using antibiotics, or is yours a viral infection? I have a prescription for something called Tobradex; it's an antibiotic and steroid. It's always seemed to make me really sleepy- but perhaps it's the infection itself that does that rather than a side effect of the medication.

Anyway, I really do hope it clears up completely very soon, and that your arse feels better soon, too.

You've been in the house too long. Hope things cheer up for you now.

I'm up to Khalo, and don't know if I can be bothered.

Oh, it's *Frida*...

I'm actually not such a big fan of hers (though a couple of acquaintances apparently are), which is perhaps surprising, given my fondness for Mexican art and handicraft in general.

I've warmed to Ms Kahlo.

Isn't there currently a scandal about the imminent destruction of one of her husband's (ie Diego Rivera's) murals in Pittsburgh or Detroit or somewhere because the building it's in has fallen into disuse?

Viral conjunctivitis *is* painful. Excrutiatingly so. The one time I had it, the Dr at the eye hospital sais "Now, don't be alarmed, but I'm just about to spray this whole room with alcohol" Seems the commonest place to pick it up is in eye hospitals. This was the bacterial kind, though. Painful and iunconvenient...but didn't have me awake screaming in the night.


No - no pants.

Situations like that I generally get back on the spliff.

I hate sentences like this -

"Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera were Mexican artists in the first half of the 20th Century, with deep Communist convictions and a tumultuous relationship."

...after 1950, they were laissez-faire German potters who played Scrabble every night.