Ruby Jones4d ago

#ScribesAndMakers⁩ 23 March: Do you consider yourself a frood who knows where their towel is?

I certainly do! As a teenager, I was a member of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Hitch Hiker's fan club, and that connection to unabashedly geeky folks was a lifeline in mostly pre www times.

Last year I turned 42 and had a Douglas Adams-themed birthday party. It was really lovely. I dressed as Dirk Gently.

But I read the books too many times as a youth. I know all the jokes and they'll never be>

Show threadKurt Hohmann4d ago

@rubyjones My introduction came in college - a coworker brought in a cassette copy of the radio program (which had come out only a few years earlier) and we played it straight through (I worked in the AV repair shop). I was hooked.

I turned 42 the year the film came out, and I had such high hopes...in retrospect I quite preferred Zaphod's papier-mâché head in the BBC series.

Yet somehow, I missed the Dirk Gently series entirely.😩

Show threadRuby Jones
@KurtHohmann My dad introduced me to them when I was about 12, I think? in the mid-90s. I adored them, read all the books, bought the radio show on cassette, bought the TV show in VHS. I agree the film failed to capture the joy of DNA's work, but I think you need to embrace something a bit more off-the-wall than your average film company will go for.
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Show threadKurt Hohmann4d ago

@rubyjones You're probably right about that. The battle with the film company over Gilliam's brilliant Brazil comes to mind immediately...and that was about a single scene.

As an aside, the original radio show was perfectly timed at just about 6 hours. Before my wife and I got married, we lived exactly three hours apart. I likely got to know that entire series almost word for word.