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

Well, San Antonio was nice. Losing matches was not. We won only two out of six matches, meaning that we did not make it to the playoffs for the first time in six years. Our coach was major upset. It also means we don't get invited back automatically next year, so we'll have to work hard in order to qualify.

On the other hand, meeting the other schools was fun and the actual act of playing the matches was fun too. Sometimes I don't care about losing or winning, I just love answering questions. We walked along the River Walk and went to the Alamo and saw X-Men 3 and spent four hours in the San Antonio airport (they'd overbooked our flight so we had to get there very early to ensure that we had seats).

I now have three big projects to get done in the next week: I have to write a research paper for my European history class (mine is on Olympia Press, the French publisher in the 50s and 60s that published a lot of vaguely erotic books that went on to be classics - I think there may be a guide entry in the making) and Euro class is also putting on a musical - my group is doing the scene about the Cold War. In addition, I have to do a final project for English class, and me and another girl are writing a skit summarising all the books we've read this year, entitled 'Death, Choices and the Importance of Being Earnest' (as Importance's theme didn't really involve death or choices).

I have friends my own age now, which is nice. The guys from the band, that is, and their friends and whatnot. I feel wanted for once and it's really quite nice. The band itself continues to go well; we've had a minor squabble over whether or not we're going to be the Scandinavian Six and also whether the girlfriend of one of the guitarists is in fact a member of the band - I hope it won't turn into a Yoko Ono incident. (Incidentally, I got a question involving 'Give Peace a Chance' at quizbowl.)

The other guitarist suggested the name 'Zeitgeist' - for the band, that is. I actually kind of like this.

So, yup. That's it - probably the longest journal entry I've written.

Zeitgeist is a really good name come to think of it - yeah, it works.

Did you see the hidden ending for X-Men 3 after the credits?

Hmmm, Earnest lampoons in the importance of death partially, along with other Christian rites of passage like baptism and marriage, particularly when Jack turns up in the country dressed in black mourning his brother Ernest's passing away from a severe chill (are you sure severe chill's don't run in the family Algy?) only for Algy to turn up dressed as Ernest. But only that little bit.

Ooh no! Zeitgeist would be a bad move. Unless you're heavily 80's influenced.

How about Weltanschauung?

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Isn't Zeitgeist inviting criticism: 'No you're not!'

On the other hand...
Zelda Zeitgeist and the Demographics.
That would be .

Using an age-old method of selecting names for things, I opened a book, closed my eyes and put my finger on the page. The word that came up is 'windswept'. I tried another page and arrived at 'sympathetic development'. OK. So much for age-old methods.

I'll try the book method myself...

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Nah! That would be a lousy name for a band.









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How about The Zeitgeisters? It's got a bit more punch to it and sounds more like a name rather than just a thing.

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Well, the Zeitgeist thing is off due to googling and finding an Australian goth band with the name. I have not given up hope of finding something, somewhere, that could potentially be a name...

*opens random book and pokes finger*

"WHY?"

Surely calling a goth band that name could only be done with a great sense of irony

Didn't you mention a paid gig somewheres? How'd you play without a name?

I found a Texas band called Zeitgeist, a bit closer to home.

How about having a look through a list of googlewacks and picking one of them out? Since they are/were googlewacks, there is a limited chance of them being a band name

or call yourself Googlewack ?

Nah! That name would be whack!

On the other hand...The Whacks?

How about Zëïtgëïst? It's got 4 more gratuitous umlauts that none of the others have, and therefore not only is it different, it's better!

Akshully...since the dots are on i's and e's, they're more likely to be tremas than umlauts.

Cohesion

I can see that coming unstuck

No gigs as yet, Leo, though since we've got a pretty good set now it seems to only be a matter of time. And of finding a name.

Surely if someone's got a list of Googlewhacks then they're no longer Googlewhacks? That is, the phrase would be in the original location and then on the list. Not a bad idea, though.

I'm supporting Sea Change's gratuitous use of umlauts but I am willing to further it even more. Be so gratuitous that you put them above every letter EXCEPT the vowels, 'cos that's where they should go and you play by your own rules and stick it to the man, even if you don't know who the man is!

Following the French usage of tremas (not umlauts ) for diaresis...Zëïtgëïst would be pronounced Zayitgayist.

Which - actually - is a marginally better name than Zeitgeist.



DON'T use Zeitgeist. Trust me - it sucks. Big time.