cool, another Portlander into Douglas Adams. I'm actually from here originally, but I tend to go away for a few years at a time and then come back.
I also like them better than the hitchhiker books, which I love too, of course.

I'm not too sure who I'd like best for it, but knowing Hollywood they would probably cast Jim Carrey in the role.

I'm thinking more like Eddie Izzard?... (not in drag, which he seems to have dropped, the drag bit)

How wonderful. :) It's about time for me as well. I should never really go too long without reading them.

I loved the I Ching calculator, which displays every calculation over four as "a suffusion of yellow," and the subconscious trunks full of penguins:

"She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins."

Actually, I loved everything, so I probably shouldn't pick favorites, but those are the first two that leapt to mind.

Oh, and I laugh out loud, every time I read it, during the entire section where Dirk is speaking with a broken nose. :)