Oh, I'm excited for this! The quite underrated (if I remember correctly) last three books of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series have at long last been adapted for radio and will be broadcast on the BBC beginning on September 21st. Check out the BBC site if you want a 'little taste' of what is to come, but if you care about this dorky stuff at all you are probably super psyched already, I know I am! I am seriously getting a heart murmur just imagining the intensely tragic end of Mostly Harmless...
These books were like my emotional security blanket (nerd alert!) through my middle school and early high school years, and I feel like it must be time for me to go back and re-read them: from reading this Crumb Trail post, to seeing my sister re-reading the books when I was home last weekend, and now this news about the radio show, that's three HHGG encounters in a week, which must mean... something. Happy Friday.
UPDATE: Alert reader/future fashion doyenne e. reeds kindly notes this NYT blurb for the HHGG movie coming out in June 2005 - and look who's playing Ford Prefect:
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY The long-awaited film adaptation of Douglas Adams's lighthearted science fiction tale, which began as a BBC radio series back in 1979 and has since achieved cult status as a series of novels. Martin Freeman stars as Arthur Dent, the lone survivor of Earth's destruction; Mos Def is the alien visitor who takes him on a tour of outer space hot spots. With Zooey Deschanel, John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Bill Nighy and Anna Chancellor; Garth Jennings wrote and directed.
Mos Def = Nerd Alert NO MORE! (maybe). Check out the official movie blog here and the mildly interesting info on the movie from Martin Freeman's site here if you are in on this nerd patrol.
