An alternative HHGTTG community

drrng @ 11:37pm: So long and haiku for all the fish.
The meaning of life?
And the Ultimate answer?
Oh - it's Forty Two.

drrng @ 10:44pm: For those having trouble...
I have a planet-
sized brain and I still count
Using my fingers :)

drrng @ 10:25pm: Hoopy Haiku
I've waited so long.
Left alone in the car park.
Just like poor Marvin.

Pull up a seat then,
And don't forget your towel.
Have a go yourself. :)

drrng @ 10:08am: HHGTTG Haiku for old times sake.
On the Heart of Gold
Two heads are better than one.
Do you have some tea?

(If you fancy more HHGTTG Haiku fun simply reply to the entry in haiku (5,7,5 syllables per respective line.))

drrng @ 7:30pm: Mod post - edited version
As the old maintainer of this community - I'd like to propose that a democratic vote be made for the new maintainer. I can't pretend to be all-knowing in the field of Hitchhickers Guide To The Galaxy, but I created this community as a creative writing forum of sorts. I'm happy to have anything HGTTG related in the LJ, but I recognise that I haven't been a very good maintainer, so I'm willing to try and arrange it for someone to take over so that they can do with it what they will.

I'm in favour of keeping it open, since I don't wish to let anyone down. However, there's a problem I created this place when it was possible to log on as a community, unfortunately now you can't, so I can't maintain it anymore. I'm endeavouring to ask for help at LJ maintainance though. Anyway, bottom-line do you want a new moderator? If so, I can try to arrange it so things will happen.

Not Panicking but best wishes anyway,

Drrng

---> Good news, I've managed to salvage the site. Luckily, I remembered the password too. It's been years
---> since I've been able to join as a mod. Phew, eh?

---> Anyway, many thanks go to vampwillow and johncoxon

drrng @ 5:18pm: Hmmm, I used to be the old maintainer of this community. Anybody, know how to log on to change it? Sorry, I'm pretty lame as maintainers go. Glad to see everyone's behaving themselves..

doctorwho42 @ 3:42am: Towel Day 2005
Just to make this known to other froods, &c., Towel Day is this coming Wednesday.

dougs @ 1:30pm: Muppets
Right, I have a theory. Work with me on this one.
( Theory )
And that's why they wrote the character of Questular into the movie script.

lproven @ 5:47pm: News!
I've posted a few news tidbits here in ursaminorbeta. Movie premiere and interviews on TV & in the newspapers. Your chance to get involved!

lproven @ 4:40pm: A guide to the Guide communities of Livejournal
Sorry to spam you all again, but this will be the last time for a while, I promise.

With the aid of johncoxon, dougs & harry_t_skull, I think I have got a comprehensive list of all the HHGTTG and Douglas Adams-related communities on LJ. There are... [drumroll]...

Sixteen of them!

( Here's a list with number of members and posts, as of a day or so ago when I compiled this. )

I don't mean to decry anyone's community or bring anyone down or anything. This is just for public information to help people find one another.

My suggestion is this: in the style of Webrings, rather than closing down or merging any communities, that the mods of all of them just post a straightforward list of what other communities are out there on the communities' userinfo pages - and let people choose for themselves. You might want to trim off the statistics on the end of each one. Mods might also want to put in a bit of description of what makes their community special!

lproven @ 3:07pm: LJ Communities
Since I've just been busily spamming LJ with links to the movie review and plugs for ZZ9 - join now! join often! - I have to ask...

How come there are quite so many HHGTTG communities on LJ? Doesn't anyone bother to check before creating a new one? So far, I know about:
• dna_fans
• douglasadams
• hhgttg
• hitchhikermovie
• hitchhiking
• megadodo
• ride_the_galaxy
• ursaminorbeta
... Any more?

EDIT: and hitchhiker_fans, plus a closed community for ZZ9 members, zz9. That's ten!

Any more?

A bit of consolidation would be a really good idea. A single community with all the members of all these ones would be a lot more active & interesting!

lproven @ 2:02pm: Movie Review
ZZ9 Research Archivist and world's greatest Guide expert Simo has been to a preview. The news, as I have to confess I rather suspected, is Not Good.

On his site, Planet Magrathea (the single best site for HHGTTG news in the world), there's both a spoiler-free short review and a longer one which gives the whole game away.

--
Obligatory plug, 'cos I'm the president: join ZZ9, the Official Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy Appreciation Society! We have WAY better merchandise than ThinkGeek does, a quarterly magazine, a members-only Yahoo community & mailing list, regular meets and more... Only £8/US$18.50 a year!

vampwillow @ 4:09pm: hmmmmn ...
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html

(though unclear why the trailer has a different date to the web page)

deunsander @ 3:10am: HHGTTG Movie
You know, I'm really not convinced Martin Freeman would make a particularly good Arthur Dent. Am I the only person who seems to think this?

dougs @ 7:02pm: Weebl and Bob
The latest edition of "Weebl and Bob" (published yesterday evening) features an incident which Guide fans might recognise. Yes, Weebl has an accident owing to an unlikely cause.

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/ouch.htm

johncoxon @ 7:03pm: froodfest
If you're a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide, why not give this a whirl...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Role Playing Game - the hoopiest thing ever to come out of the website of Yahoo! Groups. It is a Roleplay (notice the capital letter) of epic proportions, starting where Mostly Harmless left off and then bumming around the Galaxy in ways we've bummed before. (Tried but true ways of course, including lots of Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters and rehibilations groups. And girls. We can't forget the girls.) Pick a character. Email the mod. Get partying. Help the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy crawl back from the very edge of destruction. Help Ford Prefect shove it right up Infinidim's behind!

You can read the latest posts from your friends list by adding froodfest to your friends list and if you decide you like it or you want to sign up straight away head over to this page. See you there!

johncoxon @ 9:24pm: eBay item: Towel
This is a towel dating from 1985 (the seller says 1983 - that may be right, but I thought it was 1985). It's starting at £50 with no reserve and ends in about a day and 18 hours. These are incredibly rare and have gone for over £100 before. I would advise anyone who likes tat memorabilia to snap this up, now!

This announcement has been brought to you by dna_ebay. Have a nice diurnal anomaly.

johncoxon @ 8:14pm: News
Just to let people know that the news sites below have something interesting on them concerning Yahoo (i.e. a slightly new teaser trailer, eight bits of concept art and a slightly new teaser poster) right now and that they will have something even better to report on Tuesday.

http://www.planetmagrathea.com/

http://www.douglasadams.se/

http://www.h2g2movie.com/

They're all kick-ass sites.

johncoxon @ 7:22pm: HHGG Game
People reading this may or may not know about the HHGG game which has been re-released on the BBC Tertiary Phase site. I happen to have written a walkthrough for it and I thought I'd take this chance to plug it, as someone needs to go through it and see whether it's all correct and things. It's available from here if you're interested. Share and enjoy.

johncoxon @ 3:19pm: Marvin's lullaby
Just noticed this.

It seems to be something a band have set up to let people download their songs. Pretty unremarkable if it wasn't for the fact there's a version of Marvin's Lullaby from LUE in song form...

Just thought I'd let people know.

deunsander @ 4:48am: Vogon haiku
Pleekly foul odours,
Defaced my long armpit hairs
with a wet carrot.

I demand not to
Kloogle floss my rear with straw,
but to find answers!

The truth is onkle,
Betwixt the dirty pillows.
On warts but not all.

deunsander @ 1:47am: A hoopy haiku.
On the Heart of Gold
Two heads are better than one.
Don't panic frood.

yellowpythonsub @ 2:49am: Movie
Hello. Does anybody have any more information on the new movie?http://imdb.com/title/tt0371724/

I'm excited, and yet... apprehensive.

daz71 @ 9:04pm: It's The End Of The World As We Know It....
I want to use the computing and video stuff that I have to produce something more than just a holiday video, I'm thinking of going for a short film that is a tribute to Mr Adams....

Lance: Darren? What are you doing here?
Darren: I'm affraid I have some bad news?
Lance: What? What's wrong?
Darren: It's all gone wrong, everything!
Lance: You're not making sense, what's gone wrong?
Darren: It's Marvin.
Lance: Marvin?
Darren: He's decided to end it all.
Lance: Who's Marvin?
Darren: He's a manically depressed robot. He's found "The Third Key"?
Lance: "The Third Key"?
Darren: Earth, well Earth IV, is a the most powerful computer in the entire universe. So powerful that the existance itself depends on the program which it is running. There are three keys that keep the program running. The US has one, the Russians have the second and the third was hidden.
Lance: But the US and Russia aren't at war any more.
Darren: War?
Lance: I'm guessing you're talking about keys to neuclear weapons?
Darren: No?
Lance: Then what are you talking about?
Darren: The keys that keep the Earth IV program running. The Americans have the control key, the Russians have the alternative key and now, Marvin, has found the delete.
Lance: "Control","Alt","Delete"?
Darren: Yes and if the three keys are used together, "poof" no more.
Lance: The "Blue Screen Of Death"?
Darren: You're not taking me serious are you?

swizzleshticker @ 6:35am: i'm bored