makes the world go boom.

The Internet has been abuzz with all sorts of "Hitchhiker's Guide" movie trailers, and so a surprisingly large mass of Douglas Adams fans have emerged from the woodwork to make remarks along the lines of "omg the ships are this color" and "did you see that one freezeframe" and "sweet mother of god it's under his first one," etc, etc. With this surge in interest, a number of people have decided to pick up a copy of his works for the first time. Whether or not they decide to open the book and read it is another matter entirely. At any rate, the most likely outcome will be that the Guide (and possibly Adams' other works) will become trendy, what with the general trend in our culture today of not being able to come up with any original trend.

(Before anyone corrects me, the Guide was in fact very trendy in its day, as it spawned a short-lived stage version and several "disco albums" featuring Marvin the Paranoid Android. On a side note, it is theorized that Marvin may have set off the entire Goth subculture, mainly because he showed impressionable youth that complaining about life and pain would make you popular and approved of.)

This is where the concept for a new shirt design enters the fray. It will say, on the front, quite simply: I WAS HOOPY BEFORE IT WAS COOL.

Those unfamiliar with the slang term will gap stupidly at your shirt. Those familiar with it will be puzzled by the redundancy. Those also owning the shirt will ask you "Hey, you wasted $15, too?" So who's up for buying one? Eh?