Category: Author
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November 4 & 6 at 7:30 PM: Yvette in Personal Stories – Return to Live!
On November 4th and 6th I will be sharing personal stories on stage live at the Center Stage Theater. At a 7:30 PM show on Thursday and Saturday nights, I’ll be telling a tale about ‘Kate’s Corner of the Park,’ just one of the many moments that turned me into a Douglas Adams literary tourism…
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Douglas Adams Travel: Pretty, Pretty Penzance
Lurching up the incline, passing shop after shop not yet open for the day, it was easy to imagine how, over centuries, the steep grades gradually got topped off with buildings. Someone willing to hike wanted a good view. Soon, there were neighbors. Then alarmingly, the whole thing was a village dangerously perched in a…
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Douglas Adams Travel: A Lot of Left
Cars are tricky for non-Brits who only find them convenient if they can steer like Zaphod Beeblebrox, with the extra arm they recently had fitted.
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Douglas Adams Tour: Coach Tours
On any quest, there’s no knowing who you’ll meet up with…Unless you take my Douglas Adams Tour. Because if it really is the people you meet that make a trip special, starting out with froody, fun, fantastic fans will make this trip one of the most special in your life.
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Douglas Adams Tour: The Nerd Big Three
OUTTAKES CONTINUED… This post is an outtake from my 2015 forty-two places Douglas Adams tour. I’m cutting a lot of 1st-person POV from the upcoming book, Forty-Two Places: A Douglas Adams Travel Guide. “Mark, Since this will be your first trip to England, is there anything you want to see?”“The Nerd Big Three: The Rosetta…
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Attacked by The Lizard
I wanted a picture, I wanted to get up close so I could ask my guide all about them…and the one step off the track, searching for an image, was a step in a very wrong direction.
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Sweet and Snarky
Audiobook updates have been slim and none while I’ve been wordsmithing this next revision of Forty-Two Places: A Literary Tourist’s Guide To Douglas Adams. Today brought me a few new members of my Review Crew and an opportunity to help someone! A new member shared that they were recovering from a recent eye surgery and…
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SLATFATF Always Results in Geography Questions
I wish after he’d knocked Arthur Dent’s House down, Douglas Adams had stopped alluding to its whereabouts. After years and years of re-reads, I keep telling myself to give up, but the likely location for Arthur Dent’s House still tugs at me. What we know: 1) House, country lane, outside a village with a Horse…
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The Many Anniversaries of May (Bad and Good)
May 11th is the 20th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s death. By a highly improbable coincidence, it is also the 6th annual deathday of my father, Robert (Bob) Keller.
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Get Lost, Dirk.
I was not in a foreign country, on a once-in-a-lifetime-quest, to give in to doing things I was regularly tempted to do back home on any given Thursday. I would do only wildly foreign and exciting things. Like getting myself lost.