If you want to be a hoopy frood today, know where you towel is. Yes, it’s Towel Day, a day chosen by Douglas Adams’ fans to celebrate the life and worlds of the man. A few years ago at work, I had to put together the annual calendar we produce for retailers.  My instructions were [...]

Yesterday a package arrived in the mail.  It was a book, Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic by Terry Jones.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  A first printing, it looks new, even though it was published nearly fifteen years ago. And with that book I am ready. This year — this month, actually — I intend to reread [...]