Sunday, May 10, 2009

Introducing idnctsbottaositd

I seem to have amassed a few inside-reference shout-outs to me (and what-not) recently that I haven't gotten around to acknowledging. I do not offer evidence here that I have correctly identified these for what they are, nor do I intend to go into the extremely detailed explanations required for the uninvolved reader to appreciate the thinking process by which I arrived at these observations.

Unfortunately, because I do not accompany these mentions with extremely detailed explanations, the uninvolved reader is likely to perceive fallacies in my thinking process. There are many fields of study in this world where even the smallest reference to a symbol or concept could necessitate paragraphs of explanation and justification, and these inside-reference shout-outs and what-nots of mine, in this regard, seem also to deserve being categorized with such fields of study. The key difference being that, in other areas, the absence of a detailed explanation does not automatically tend to lead to false assumptions regarding the underlying thinking process. I therefore have devised an abbreviated manner for conveying this:

I [i] do [d] not [n] conclude [c] this [t] simply [s] because [b] of [o] the [t] timing [t] and/or [ao] similarities [s] in [i] the [t] details [d] = [idnctsbottaositd]
  • When I joked to someone that I was going to go hang out in the parking lot, and the next day an article appeared about Paul McCartney in a parking lot, that was an inside-reference shout-out to me. [idnctsbottaositd]
  • In the movie "Fred Claus" (which just had its cable TV premium channel debut), when Fred Claus finds impossible the playing of the same song over and over, that was a result of my 1994 sci-fi comedy video, "Gosk, Part 1", where Clerp becomes agitated at the playing of the same song over and over. [idnctsbottaositd]
  • A recent appearance by Regis Philbin on the David Letterman Show (the one which included a performance from "Hair"), as with all appearances by Regis on Letterman for at least the past ten years, included an inside-reference shout-out to me regarding one of the (few) things that passed between myself and a particular woman Regis once introduced himself to in a New York City restaurant. [idnctsbottaositd]
  • The last three "Simpsons" episodes, as with many other "Simpsons" episodes, included an inside-reference shout-out to me and to someone who is an old friend of Senator Edward Kennedy (Kennedy being the prototype for the Mayor of Springfield, the town in which the Simpsons live), through one of their frequent inside-references to a particular scene from the CalArts 1974 Film Class' 16mm movie/class project, "Limbo". [idnctsbottaositd]

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