Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
A thread for sharing your favorite books, movies, music, websites, etc., and adding them to the list in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GABOOMBA.
New policy: at the rate this blog is developing, keeping the HG2Gab updated would be a nightmare. From now on, you do the work. MuseBlog is it. Enjoy!
Date: August 4, 2005
Categories: Random craziness
To help get this thread rolling, I’m going to volunteer my own current favorite book: A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson.
Bryson usually writes funny books about traveling. This time, though, he decided to write about science–all of it–in a way that ordinary readers could understand. Amazingly, he succeeded.
Bryson sketches the BIG PICTURE behind those endless lists of facts you learn in school, and throws in scads of fascinating details that your textbooks leave out. The result is like a thousand Q&A columns answering questions you didn’t even know you were curious about. Definitely worth a trip to the library.
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Anyone seen Monk? It’s a TV show about an obsessive compulsive detective. Good stuff. Friday nights & repeats Saturday mornings on USA.
—D_Q
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Hm, not much traffic on this thread. How to stir things up…
What about ice cream? My favorite is Baskin-Robbins’s mint chocolate chip, the kind with the little tiny chips. Big ones just aren’t the same. It’s just right for a hot day like today. In fact, I think I’ll run out and get some right now.
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I have a hankering 4 shave ice. The best shave ice is at Hilo Homade in Hilo and at Joe’s on Kauai. My fave flavor is rasberry lime.
-Da C
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Wow, you really don’t want to get me started on ice cream. Or any sweet for that matter.
My favorite ice cream is either chocolate-chip cookie dough, mint chocolate chip, Ben&Jerry’s Phish Food, Ben &Jerry’s Half Baked, or Mideval Madness. Phew!
In response to the earlier book question, I read the sixth Harry Potter book in a record 2 days. Yes, I DID read it and actually absorb, but I went back and read it again over the next 3 or 4 days. I loved it.
Another series that I really like is the Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer. Anybody read those? 
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i agree with elentari on ice cream. i was almost dancing when i found half baked. it’s the combination of my two old fravorites. what more could you want?
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I read HP6 in *does math* a little under a day if you don’t count the time I took breaks in. I was in Canada when it came out so I got the British version (why do THEY get all the good covers??).
Yeah, I’ve read all three Artemis Fowl books, and my brother owns them along with that last one… I forget the title but it’s some sort of guide thingy.
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Update: my favorite ice cream is now Half-baked. All others take second place in my affections.
TOPFOT, that has got to be an HP6 record! Also, did you know that there is a fourth Artemis Fowl book? I am 8th on the waiting list at my library for it…*growls in frustration*. To make up for waiting, I am reading another one of Eoin Colfer’s books: The Supernaturalists. I am already finding it difficult to do tasks due to not being able to put it down, and I’ve only read the first few chapters!
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I challenge you a Harry Potter race, TOPFOT! I read HP6 in a few hours- only I stopped when _____________ died to weep for a little while.
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^^LOL, what book and when would u care to start? I’m busy Mon., Tues., and Thurs., and I have an essay to write before the 24th.
But you’ll probably beat me because I’ll have sibling interference.
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Getting back on topic…
“Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?”
‘Tis a fifties horror type movie. I don’t know how many people have heard of it in our depressingly modern culture, but someone needs to go see it or something.
Best. Movie. Ever.
Quick plot summary:
Baby Jane Hudson is a nine year old vaudville star in the late 1910s. She is beloved by many, but offstage she’s a disgusting example of parenting of any kind. Her quiet sister Blanche secretly hates her with a passion. The movie cuts ahead to the 1930s, where Blanche is a renowned film star with a blossoming career, but Jane is an untalented and fairly drunk actress whose career is haanging by thread only due to her sister’s charity. Late one night, Blanche is crippled in a car crash and her sister briefly dissapears, leading everyone to believe she is the perpetrator. Cut ahead to the mid- fifties, were both aging sisters are living together with Blanche cofined to an upstairs room with only her sister to take care of her. Jane has become really, really, really ugly over time, and despises her sister for her popularity even after both their careers are over. Gradually, she starts to crack and seems bent on killing Blanche, but it gets much freakier… she begins to dwell on her vaudville days and spirals into childlike state of mind as a simpering and spoiled, but still pretty violent nine year old. I’ll leave you to imagine what follows.
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I love haagen-dazs dulce de leche ice cream. It’s heaven on earth.
Speaking of ice cream — there’s a place at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware that has homemade BACON ice cream. Sounds delicious to me!
The weirdest ice cream I’ve ever had was bubble gum (with pieces of gum mixed in), which isn’t really that weird. Oh, I’ve had garlic chilli pepper ice cream too. That was good.
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Hi, Rosanne!
Esteemed MuseBloggers, permit me to introduce my fellow Q&A columnist, California’s gift to Musedom, Rosanne Spector.
*Cheers and general adoration.*
–Robert
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So… I know I’ve already mentioned this in the old H2G2, but it’s so amazingly wonderful it bears repeating. Everyone should check out the band Eisley at http://www.eisley.com and http://www.orangegoldandgreen.com/ Great stuff. (Robert–can we add links to messages?)
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ChinTsu (comment 4):
I had something that called itself a raspberry-lime Hawaiian shaved ice over the weekend at the Arlington County Fair. It was an intense experience–especially at the bottom, where the flavors ran together. Do the ones in Hilo come with a plastic spoon, a thick straw, and a little tassel on top?
–R.C.
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I read HP#6 in five hours, first of all- I win!
DOES ANYBODY READ THE BELGARIAD? It is SO AWESOME! it is about this boy named Garion who was raised on a farm by his aunt. One day, a storyteller comes to the farm and he seems to know his aunt. The storyteller and his aunt (Pol) and the blacksmith (Durnik) take him on a quest to find — something, only Pol and the storyteller seem to know. on the way they meet Silk, a spy-thief, Hettar, a horse-lord, Ce’nedra, a dryad, and lots of other way cool people. It is such a good book! read it! now! go! now! get off the computer and find it! Bye!
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Ok, I’ll read it some time soon and time myself. I’m a bit busy with school and all, the letter might not get sent for a bit.
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Helpful hint: address the envelope before you start writing the letter. Then you’ll be more likely to finish the job.
The address again:
Muse Mail
140 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1450
Chicago, IL 60603
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Ya’know the message in the locket in the sixth Harry Potter book? I know who RAB is! Really!
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Ever hear of the Humboldt/Rojo Diablo/Red Demon squid? WHAT!!!!!:shock: They r awesome. now, i’m not gonna tell you about them, so go look ’em up. HINT: internet:!: you must have it, so go to dogpile.com and type in ‘red demon squid. It’s worth it. just make sure it says humboldt squid, to. otherwise you might end up reading about a comepletely different topic.
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Hey, guess what? I asked my mom to time me reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azcaban, and I finished it in THREE QUARTERS OF AN HOUR!!!!!! And I could’ve said it back to her, word for word (almost). Beat that, I challenge you.
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I read the 5th book of Harry Potter in about 6hrs total. Beat that, lilbro777!!!!!!!!!! wait what does your name mean? Are you related to Kitten in any possible way?????
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Kricket:
I am named after my horse, little brother (lilbro for short) and 7 is my favorite number and it’s become a custom for me and my friends to pick a pen name then add on our favorite numbers three times. Or to put ‘101’ after.
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I read the sixth book in four and 3 1/4 hours! ha!
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ooos… I mean four and 3/4 hours… typo.
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no, wait.. dif. of 15 minutes there…
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NO! STOP!!! THAT BUGS ME!!! seriously. reading harry potter does not tell you how fast you read. Harry Potter rocks and all, but everybody’s always like, “yeah i read so fast! I read harry potter in __ hours!” no. stop. rewind. erase. Yeah hp’s great but let’s face it-it’s the type of book that’s meant to be read fast. it’s really almost impossible to read slowly.
and anyway, what does the time count? i mean, i used to be all like, “oh yeah look at me i read sooo fast go me!” but then you start reading like twain or dickens, and you see “yeah i can read these fast, but do i want to?” you catch sooo much more slowing down a bit. you think you’re getting the whole story, but you’re really not. speed bump!! speed bump!!
anyhoo sry for the rant. and not dissing u guys or anything.
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(refers to comment #1) A Short History of Nearly Everything is awesome! It’s actually comprehensible, unlike lots of science books. I got it for Christmas one year and was very happy.
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Also, Kricket:
I am truly sorry, but I read the 5th Harry Potter book in slightly more than an hour. 
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*this refers to comment # 27.*
It is possible to read a HP book slowly. I read reread the 6th HP book for the…. third time, I think. It’s hard to keep track. Anyways, I read it in three days, and for me that is slow.
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*also refers to #27*
I read stuff fast the first time, then wait a bit, and after a few days I read it again, but slower. Much slower. That way, I have got the details and the record.
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uh, did I say I read it for 7hrs straight? NO! I probably read it in about an hour, but since I had a swim meet that day I couldn’t count the hour…
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ha!!!! I’ve reread the 6th HP book about 5 times and all in about 7 or something hours!!!!!!!!!!! well the first one was much faster but…
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well not the first time…
i hate reading fast. i consider it the curse of my life. i’m always finished with a book and i have to find sooo many new ones. life would be a lot easier if i didn’t have to go to the library twice a week…
btw what are we doing on this thread anyway? wasn’t this august? *checks date* hmm. august.
ok i need choklit now cu later people
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hasn’t anyone heard of Humboldt/Rojo Diablo/Red Demon squid (post 20)???????? answer me!
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i haven’t, even with my newly updated artificial intelligence.
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post somthing here!!
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In regards to post # 2:
I love that show. It’s so darn funny.
Did you see it last week?
It was called ‘Mr. Monk Get Jury Duty.’
Really good episode.
I have the first 3 seasons on DVD.
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I don’t think I’ll be on this thread very often, but I will tell you what my favorite things are real quick.
Anything to do with Bonobos, Kokopelli, and chocolate.
I’ll let you in on something cool.
When I grow up, I plan to build a house shaped like Kokopelli, and then set a Guiness world record, by having the largest collection of Kokopelli based items in the country.
Plus a chocolate shop, and a huge reading room dedicated to the drop dead wonderful bonobo.
So that’s me in terms of favorite things.
Well there’s more, but those are the most important.
Bye.
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Post 2: it’s reallly late, but I love Monk! I missed the latest season finale…I’ll have to see it when it comes on again. Lol, I actually know a few Monkish people. 
Things I like, to name a few…
unhealthy food (pizza, yum)
chocolate
ice cream
walking in the rain
random factoids and other interesting (but inapplicable in practical, everyday life) information
Roman history
mythology/fairy tales/folktales
learning things
reading
lying in a hammock on a warm day
just thinking about things
free time
cemetaries/graveyards (I loved the article, was it in the October Muse?, about that!)
black olives
…the list goes on.
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I like horned melons! *awkward silence*
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Did you know that this is the oldest thread that people can still post on?
We all ♥ Choklit.
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I like eating uncooked pasta, as I am doing right now.
*munch, munch, munch*
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