Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

Posted by admin on 11th, 2009

Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world’s creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779]


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    14 Responses to “Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything”

    1. Finghin

      I really enjoy listening to this guy speak, and his reading his books. going to the Lib later to pick up some of his literature.


    2. Rhyannon

      I love this movie :-) you can watch it at Movie Watcher (dot) Us free? online


    3. ESSIEN

      i wish there was subtitles for this


    4. MacBain

      Thank you VERY much, UCtelevision, for sharing this!


    5. ASWAN

      If only.


    6. MALAK

      .

      I warned you Christians, the kingdom of God is about to take over this world, prepare yourself, be holy, be like Christ.

      .


    7. Nechten

      A genious! Rip


    8. Kathy

      one kind of man that truely should of been given the ability to live forever. insanely funny, heart warmingly beautiful and tragically sad all at the same time!


    9. ZAHARA

      They were from over a thousand years ago, not last century. Moron!


    10. AONGHAS

      because you (of all people) deserve better than extinction.

      Beautiful


    11. Treven

      Adams was a great author. He was the author of a lot of Dr Who episodes as well as HHGTTG.

      And while I hate remakes, and especially hate Steven Fry for being a pretentious twat, I love this kakapo remix (for Rachel Maddow cracking up). watch?v=dQfNZWEwN0I - whap, whap, whap…


    12. TAGE

      i am soo lonelyy any one up for some chatting with a cute girl


    13. Sumernor

      “Fucking huge, I believe is the technical term.”

      GENIUS.


    14. NIKKO

      Hehe… thought “parrots” was to be understood as a verb. I was wondering how to “parrot” something. :D


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    Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

    Posted by admin on 11th, 2009

    Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world’s creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779]


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