So, in an amazingly link-unfriendly manner, Amazon has posted the non-teaser trailer to the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie.
I sent a note to an internal SIMS list, and Nathan Good responded with probably the funniest rant I've read in a long, long time (not do dis Dave):
WHY is mos def anywhere near this movie? Did I miss a meeting where they decided that the "geek is chique" phenom is allowed to cross over to the hip-hop world? As an old school geek who can remember when being a geek meant that all the things in hip-hop music really didn't apply to you at all, I am confused why they are infringing on my turf? Was the humiliation of playing D&D BY MYSELF not enough for them? How about spending all night as an 10 year old going through reams of debug printouts trying to find the memory location for "more gold" so I could get some fucking little item that no one else in the world even cared about? Oh I'm mad, so mad I will do what most old school geeks do when the world shits on them (aka always) and play doom all night and trash talk newbies. Maybe even make some sexual innuendos and question their masculinity, I dunno, I'm feeling a little loco right now.
I am both happy to see this happening but a little worried that they are going to fuck up one of the most entertaining escapist books I ever read by doing it really, really well, reinforcing my insignifigance in the world. The fact that the trailer is cool and really good has me even more pissed off. Its as if mos def is "slumming" in geekville, stooping to our level before he goes back to being an anti-geek. All they need to do now is but Jennifer Garner as Nell in the Diamond Age and my humiliation will be complete.
A man, lost and alone.
Nathan "is the whole world on crazy pills" Good
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