Month: February 2006

Okay then. The real and maybe only reason you come here — the Friday Random Guess 10:

  1. I gave my clothes to the policeman
    “Derelict” by Beck, guessed by Kim
  2. The sun is the same in the relative way
    “Time” by Pink Floyd, guessed by John
  3. Maybe you’re just not man enough
    “Secret Heart” by Feist (or Ron Sexsmith or others), guessed by Eric
  4. I was underage in this funky bar
    “Late in the Evening” by Paul Simon, guessed by Rob
  5. The ground is rich from tender care
    “The Battle of Evermore” by Led Zeppelin, guessed by Kim
  6. Billy sat in front of his TV as the South fell
    “Galveston Bay” by Bruce Springsteen, guessed by Eric
  7. I don’t know what makes your face implode
    “Experimental Film” by They Might Be Giants, guessed by Rob and Glen
  8. Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your explosive flatulence
    “Your Horoscope for Today” by “Weird Al” Yankovic, guessed by Rob
  9. It’s the feeling you get, when you feel young
  10. Everything is closed, it’s like a ruin
    “Good Morning Good Morning” by the Beatles, guessed by Kim

All of last week’s lyrics were correctly guessed. Will this week’s? Oh, the suspense!

Wondering what Neil Gaiman meant when he wrote that the new Stephen Fry audiobook of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reads like “an alternate universe version of the story,” I discovered this:

Together this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ball point pens he’s bought over the years…

Veet Voojagig? A quick Google search reveals he probably was a minor character mentioned in one of the books somewhere. But, for the life of me, I don’t see how he wound up in the plot description, much less elevated to main-character status.

Is this some kind of weird parallel story, a la Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Shadow?