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

From the start, I wanted to do something significant on hootoo. After all, it's a chance to self-publish, and if I had the opportunity to do some paper publishing to a large audience I'd want to do more than crack a few jokes and have a dig at poor old Gordon Brown.

My first thought was to copy the techniques of the book Freakonomics, but without the maths. That is, to use readily-available data to uncover something nobody else has noticed. I'm still thinking about this, but in the meantime I've stumbled across something else and I've decided to attempt a Guide Entry. It will be on a topic that Aristotle regarded as the most important of all, building on the work of a celebrity psychiatrist, refuting a premise put forward in a minor hit record by the Ray Conniff singers and disagreeing with an American cigarette advertising campaign and a British cigar advertising campaign.

So while I'm having a lot of fun directing Jabs' Utube audience to some of my favourite musicians and comedians, and joining in games of Cheddar Gorge and Mrs Trellis, I am about to make my first ambitious posting.