For science fiction aficionados, today is a very special day.
First, of course, it's Towel Day …
Carrying a towel around is the traditional way to observe Towel Day, but there are also fan-organized events taking place around the world.
Why a towel? Because, as Adams wrote, it’s about the most massively useful thing an interstellar traveler can have. Plus, towels are quite conspicuous, which should make it easier for hitchhikers to sass their fellow hoopy froods today.
The May the 25th date is, as Adams would no doubt have liked it, basically random. It doesn’t have any significance in the Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, it just happened to be two weeks after Adams’ death, which gave fans some time to plan.
That's not all, of course. May 25th, 1977 was a day that everything changed when 20th Century Fox released a film from a USC graduate named George Lucas, a film that forever altered the landscape of big budget moviemaking and changed the lives of people around the world. Sure, May the Fourth gets more attention, but this is when it all started.
The fact that this day falls on new comics day for North America is just a wonderful coincidence (and great that Dark Horse comics has two Star Wars books on the stands as well, here's help finding a store near you).
Whatever you celebrate, enjoy your geekiness today!
UPDATED: Of course, National Geek Pride Day too … sorry, we were caught up in the other madness!
[Source: The Daily What]