To begin, I am pleased to announce that I have begun work on my next new video, "In Orders We Trust," which will be a very limited animation. The May 2006 script was initially emailed to two big producers I once knew, Stuart Cornfeld and Sean Daniel, back when Saturday Night Live would always include fragments from my ideas on that week's show thru my emailing to Stuart and Sean. That time around I was surprised when no fragments from my latest showed up on that week's show, but later someone wrote a book ("Gods Behaving Badly") based on it, afterwhich Stuart Cornfeld (thru Red Hour, the company he runs with Ben Stiller) purchased the rights to that book for development as a TV show. I posted my script on my Angelfire website, and recently at archive.org. Imagine if they had actually given me credit for once.
Many Are Cold But Few Are Frozen
Now to go on about myself via describing what I perceive to be another reference on TV to my "Frozen" video. As seems to be the case with every piece of information I speak to, it is necessary to refer to a set of things in order to make my point:
- In my August 8th blog I was astute enough (someone's gotta say it) to observe that the August 7th "Monk" seemed to include, among its many references to my material, my video, "Frozen". In addition to the cumulative references to my material on "Monk", which I regard as a context-defining factor, I felt this way specifically because of my video's mixing together of things from different eras in American entertainment as if they all belonged to one era, which also occurred in that episode of "Monk". (By the way, I did not mean for that blog to suggest that no one had ever before handled different eras that way.) I found it important in that this is the last season of "Monk," the end of the character essentially, which can be seen as containing a general relevance to my "Frozen" video for its sustenance by extraordinary means (cryogenics) of its "characters" (two of The Beatles).
- Something I previously overlooked regarding the August 14th "Monk" episode in relation to my "Frozen" video: Monk tells someone he should stop playing his flute, he is no Louis Armstrong at the Filmore West. Those familiar with my "Frozen" video and my observation regarding the August 7th "Monk" (see previous bullet item) would agree that this August 14th Monk remark is of the same fabric.
- In the weekly Monk/Steinhoff videoclip included with my August 8th blog, I noted the occurrence of something I encounter from time to time, one show acting in conjunction with another show in relation to me/my work. It specifically pointed to an instance of this regarding the show "Real Time With Bill Maher" in relation to "Monk" in relation to myself.
- The August 21st "Real Time With Bill Maher" seemed to clearly act in conjunction with the "Monk" episode airing that same day, August 21st, by Maher doing an editorial on his show about apologizing (published by Maher earlier that day or the day before on Huffington Post as well), and the idea of Monk apologizing/not apologizing being a repeated element in that day's "Monk" episode. This did not relate to me, but it tends to reaffirm my assertion of two weeks before that Maher's show had acted in conjunction with "Monk".
- I believe I also spotted a reference to my "Frozen" video on Maher's August 21st show, though it would seem a questionable observation to those who do not see it in the context I have tried to present here. Specifically, Maher said, "Remember the terror alerts, remember when it was like, oh my God, it's yellow today, bring a sweater. I, we never knew what to do." In "Frozen," Ringo responds to George's description of his experience being cryogenically frozen by writing a note to self, "Bring a sweater." In both cases the punchline is, "bring a sweater". Again, I would not make this observation if not for the entire context I see of recent references to "Frozen" on "Monk" and recent actions by Bill Maher (also: my July 11th blog includes mention of an additional Maher/Steinhoff occurrence, which I was able to prove).
And finally, this week's Monk/Steinhoff videoclip:
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