SPOILERS: Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show
Went out and saw the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show at the Riverside in Hammersmith.
It was good fun. Our pub visit and Arthur Dent's surprise leaving party that Ford threw was interrupted by the Vogons coming to destroy the planet.
Luckily, Ford got the entire pub into the Heart Of Gold and hence to the cargo hold of the Vogon ship.
Songs and dance, audience participation, beautiful costumes and familiar characters. All good fun.
Trouble with a comedy based on a forty year old show though is that the jokes are all entirely predictable and obvious. Which makes it a comedy show without much actual laughs.
And while the Fenchurch in the show was an entirely lovely actress, I always found the character in the books/radio-shows quite annoying and she was too prominent in a 90 minute show.
Good fun, but don't expect to be rolling in the aisles.
Starmer's speech is full of regret, so sorry that he believed the lies of Mandelson.
Now we are expected to trust the judgement of a man who believed the lies of a person known as the Prince Of Darkness in order to appoint him as ambassador to America, precisely because of his relationship with the Epstein and Trump circle.
If not for his relationship with those fuckers, why make him ambassador?
What did he have over the existing ambassador other than his relationship with the whole Epstein crowd?
Nothing.
He was chosen for that position by Starmer exactly because of that relationship which Starmer now pleads he didn't know about as he was fooled by the lies of the dark prince.
Nope. I don't buy it. Starmer can still fuck off.
#ukpol
Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past.
It was fun and an easy read, lots of interludes about the physics of fictional universes and explanations of acausal items causing their own existence, including the book itself that you read in your hands.
Its nice if you'd like something with experimental narrative form twisting the usual story format.
