My fourth entry in this “30 Day Challenge” is my favorite book.

It has the words “Don’t Panic” in large, friendly letters on the cover.

I speak of the “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“, by the late Douglas Adams.

I actually love all five of the Hitchhiker series written by Adams, which also includes “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, “Life, the Universe and Everything”, “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” and “Mostly Harmless”.

But h2g2 is by far my favorite. It’s the one book I’ve read countless times, and each time I pick it up it’s as if it’s the first time I’ve ever read it. It’s snarky. It’s irreverent. It’s sci-fi.

It probably also explains a lot about the way my brain thinks.

A close second favorite would be “The Cartoon History of the Universe – From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (Volumes 1-7)” by Larry Gonick. Yes. It really is a history book. But it’s done in cartoons. Which is the way I think. And remember things. I HIGHLY recommend you pick up a copy. Even if you hate history.

Also good are some of the other books he’s written that I’ve read:

• “The Cartoon History of the Universe II – From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (Volumes 8-13)”
• “The Cartoon History of the Universe III – From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (Volumes 14-19)”
• “The Cartoon History of the United States”
• “The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Volume 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution”
• “The Cartoon Guide to (non)Communication”

This too probably explains a lot about the way my brain thinks.

You should probably run away now.

My third entry in this “30 Day Challenge” is my favorite television program.

I really don’t watch much TV anymore, mostly because I hate commercials. And by the time I get home from the studio it’s usually all infomercials.

But I do like a lot of the stuff on the diy Network and HGTV. Probably because it gives me cool ideas for around the house, the hair salon (for the Husbear), and the tattoo studio. And some ways *not* to do stuff. Always important to learn by example. Even it it’s a bad one. (Kind of like the way I live my life….)

So that leaves me all old school and rerun-y. I love “Star Trek: Voyager”. Still do. I have it playing now on the computer as I type this actually. Captain Janeway was awesome. Especially when she was having her onscreen stroke while B’Elanna watched:

I loved the Star Trek universe. Except that they got rid of those man-dresses from The Next Generation.

My second entry in this “30 Day Challenge” is my favorite movie.

Is porn an allowable movie genre?

In the non-porn genre, I don’t know that I have a favorite. To me favorite would imply that I could quote a movie from beginning to end. I can’t do that. Hell, I can barely remember my address.

I do have several movies I like to watch over and over though: Dogma, The Fifth Element, The Gods Must Be Crazy, V for Vendetta, Back to the Future, and South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut.

I guess if I had a favorite of those, it would be Dogma.

Mostly because it pokes the Catholic Church (and in a larger aspect, all organized religions) in the eye with their own beliefs.

And hey, it’s got Alanis Morissette as God. What’s not to like about that?