When I first read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, I was immediately caught up with the sheer genius of it all. Never before had I come across a body of work that contained all there is to know about the universe that was worth knowing.
So what if it’s all been made up? It makes a hell of a lot more sense than the truth: Human beings are only the third smartest life forms on Earth (everybody knows this). The single purpose of all manner of life on this planet is to fuel a big cosmic experiment (I knew it!). The key to flying is to throw yourself to the ground and miss (Oh My God!). And the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, Everything is 42 (Holy Christ YES!).
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If you have half a brain and have been on Earth for any amount of time, you’d know who Neil Gaiman is, and how he is a god among men. When he announced that he’ll be in town this year, Pinoy bloggers have been tirelessly documenting his every move to ensure that the book signing will proceed as planned, and wasn’t just a drug-induced rumor.
Now that things are pretty much set in stone regarding his trip to the PI, I was faced with the embarrassing truth that while I own most of Neil’s books, they’re all in paperback instead of hardbound. Showing up at a book signing armed only with dilapidated copies of Neverwhere, Stardust, Good Omens, and American Gods did not seem like a very dignified way of greeting the dream king.
When I made my quandary known to Anansi Girl, she made this simple but brilliant suggestion that I should go ask Neil himself.
Maybe it was the ungodly hour or 5-day old puttanesca I had for lunch, but I decided to follow AG’s advice where I would have usually shrugged it off in favor of downloading more porn.
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