Congratulations to Ed - elected as #TowelDayAmbassador for 2026. Oliver Oak Krimmel is regional ambassador for Europe. Ed has been a regional TDA in the past and runs the Electric Monks podcast (dirkgentlypodcast.wordpress.com). He knows where at least two towels are!

we all know I have no life, so:

Devin has been a Towel Day Ambassador since 2018. He knows just how serious the job is. Promoting towel usage and being hoopy You could be 2026 Towel Day Ambassador - last days to get your campaign video application in! #toweldayambassador #toweldayambassador2026 #douglasadams #zz9pluralzalpha

Ken has been a Towel Day Ambassador since 2024, promoting froodiness & the importance of having a towel. Will you be ambassador in 2026? Prepare an entry video and share it with us by the 25th to enter! #toweldayambassador #toweldayambassador2026 #douglasadams #zz9pluralzalpha

Hi folks! MH179 was sent out earlier in the week with details about upcoming #TowelDay activities (incuding #TowelDayAmbassador info), the latest Ian Gibson comic sketches, and a membership price drop! If you're a member and haven't seen it (and it's not in spam), get in touch!

have you been keeping up with the latest in Illustrated Hitchhiker's?

Have you considered if you have what it takes to be #TowelDayAmbassador in 2026? Yvette (TDA in 2023) thinks you do!

A new chance to see... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGL...

Happy 74th Birthday, #DouglasAdams. We'll celebrate it in your memory!

Vale Rob Grant. Co-creator of Red Dwarf (with Rob Grant) and later writing partner with Andrew Marshall (who was the inspiration for Marvin the Paranoid Android)

ZZ9ers! Sunday 1st Feb is our Reading Slouch. There's a ruined abbey to explore. The Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum to learn from. Waterways to stroll alongside (weather permitting). Shops! Pubs! Full details in the recent MH178, or event in ZZ9's facebook group #HHGG #ZZ9PZA

the latest Mostly Harmless (issue 178) was sent out earlier this week! If you were expecting it, but haven't seen it, let us know! If you aren't a member, but want to be, visit zz9.org/membership #zz9 #DouglasAdams #HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HHGG #H2G2

Ford Prefect was extremely grateful, as he strapped himself in, that this was just another Informational Illusion, and that he was therefore completely safe. In real life it wasn't a ship he would have set foot in for all the rice wine in China.

"You don't understand how important this is," he said. "What? You mean my daughter out there all alone in the Galaxy? You think I don't..." "Can we feel sorry for the Galaxy later?" said Ford.

1st September 2009 So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish: 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Foreword by Neil Gaiman | UK Paperback | Pan MacMillan

29th April 2005 BBC1, 10.50pm - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross Martin Freeman promotes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfAI...

December 2006 Mostly Harmless - Read by Martin Freeman UK Audio Book | 6 CDs | MacMillan Audio Books

Marvin waves. Arthur waves back. awwwww! #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #DouglasAdams

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

Kevin Jon Davies writes about the 1994 Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy substack.com/home/post/p-...

April 2005 Knitted Marvin

Yes, given the infinite sideways extension of probability there was, of course, an almost infinite multiplicity of planets Earth, but, when you came down to it, a major pair of shoes wasn't something you could just replace by mucking about in multi-dimensional space/time.

Lovely piece in @the-independent.com on #HitchhikersLive www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Movie Spinner Keyring, 2005.

Marvin Bobblehead Head Knockers | NECA | 2005

In fact what he was really looking for when he stared distractedly into the sky was any kind of flying saucer at all. The reason he said green was that green was the traditional space livery of the Betelgeuse trading scouts.

Got excited when I recieved a google alert about a ‘new’ Hitchhiker game being announced. Turns out the article was from 2011 and the mobile app was never finished. But clips exist online, narrated by Simon Jones no less! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxP8...

Greetings froods! The #ZZ9 AGM is on the 8th in Faversham plus Zoom (details in MH177 p18), where we'll be electing the 2026 Committee. Email the secretary for electronic voting if you're attending online. If you want to be ON the ZZ9 committee, reach out too and let's chat!

Are you over 18 and in the UK? Are you a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan? Pan McMillan and HHGGLive have teamed up to give one lucky winner an amazing package! www.panmacmillan.com/hitchhikers-...

Attention all ZZ9 members (both human and non-human) Our quarterly zine "Mostly Harmless" (issue number 177) should have arrived in your inboxes nearly a week ago. If it's AWOL, please get in touch!

9th May 2005 Quench Magazine

What a fantastic fanfilm of Ford and Arthur from the #HitchhikersGuide to the Galaxy- as made by Greig Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431... (check out his "Making a working guide..." video for an old-school ZZ9 reference too!) #h2g2 #DouglasAdams

Arvind ( @arvd.bsky.social ) talks to @ticketmaster.com about the upcoming #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy live stage show! discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/theatre/adap...

In case anyone else is painting on wplace.live, some #HHGG fans are drawing a whale and petunias just north of Taunton in the west country. We're mainly organised through the Heart of Gold server (invite at top of r/HItchhikersGuide).

There's a story behind this #DirkGently #Pride #LGBTQIA+ #Comic 1-shot. I've never told the story. It involves censorship, love, J.K.Rowling and the BBC. I wonder if it's time I told it? #LoveIsLove

September 2004 TV Zone, Issue 180: ‘Hitch Hikers Reunited' (Can’t remember where I got this from, but credit to whoever it was)

Did you know that Cardboard Boxes have at least four uses? In fact, as the second most useful thing in the universe, it's likely far more than that. Guide researcher Blue Canary brings forth the details zz9.org/great-guide-...

Have you considered the tale of Manchester United? It's not a story the Jedi would tell, but the Red Devils are known nonetheless. Read about them in this Guide entry from Aradhye Ackshatt zz9.org/guide-guide-...

7th April 2003 Concept doodles for Marvin (left) and the final design (right).

This surprisingly real entry on Norwich from researcher F.D should prove useful to every weary visitor on their journey. Just don't accidentally catch a monk. zz9.org/great-guide-...

This Guide Entry from Dave Williams is all about "Cryptic Crosswords". Full of useful advice and trivia (such as the failure of cryptic crosswords to ever succeed on the planet Tersurus (why, you ask? I'll explain later) zz9.org/great-guide-...

From the collection of our June "Great Guide Entry Giveaway" contest, comes this article: "Matter Disintegrator". It even comes with it's own soundtrack! Many thanks to the ZZ9 member and Guide Researcher known as Willo Hanri zz9.org/great-guide-...

Mostly Harmless Issue 93 (July 2004) zz9.org/mostly-harml...

Tick Tick Tick Tock Tock Tock - Under six hours left in our Great Guide Entry Giveaway! Win a fabulous illustrated edition of The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Just be a member and write us a Guide entry on something everyone needs to know about! zz9.org/the-great-gu...

Tick Tick Tick Tock Tock Tock - Under six hours left in our Great Guide Entry Giveaway! Win a fabulous illustrated edition of The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Just be a member and write us a Guide entry on something everyone needs to know about! zz9.org/the-great-gu...

Just a few hours to go. Contest ends at the end of the month UTC. Should there be a Guide Entry on deadlines? Seems an obvious option here! Just be a ZZ9 member (even newly joined) and submit your Guide Entry through to us before the deadline! zz9.org/the-great-gu...

We all know someone like this, right?

Last Day ahead! One talented and lucky ZZ9 member will win a beautiful Fine Press illustrated edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from #CuriousKing. Check out the info here, but dont delay! Entries close at the end of the month zz9.org/the-great-gu...

A few days left before the end of lunch. Ahem, I mean, the end of the month, and our editors finally review submissions to our Great Guide Entry Giveaway. Open to ZZ9 members, with a fantastic prize courtesy of #CuriousKing zz9.org/the-great-gu...