The Price Of Freedom, And The Free Of Pricedom

Once again, more stuff little and great, all worth reporting to someone or another!

In addition to my Weekly Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip, this time I made an additional, separate videoclip that involves this week's "Monk" episode, as it also involves not only an episode of "Medium" that aired the same night (a TV show that has begun regularly interconnecting with the Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip - see the last few Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip installments), but pertains primarily to one of my potential terrorist clues (described in my March 13, 2009 blog) as well, and only threads through me/my material in that connection.

You will also find stuff in this blog edition not connected to "Monk" - so in other words, a little bit of everything!

Weekly MONK/STEINHOFF VIDEOCLIP, 11.6.09
This time around I'm back to being able to provide in my weekly Monk/Steinhoff videoclip things verifiable, in terms of referencing things I unalterably timestamp-posted a while back, "Gosk Part 1" and "Gosk Part 2" . As always, appreciating this Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip's significance requires seeing it in the context of (just about) every episode of "Monk" ever made containing things that connect to me/my material (most of which is similarly verifiable through unalterable timestamp postings). This context generates a perspective based on the necessary cumulative information.



Potential Terrorist Clues Left On The Doorstep Of Someone Secretly Super-Important In Relation To Steven Spielberg And Paul McCartney Corner
As you can see, I've come up with the perfect title for this section of my blog, sort of like, "Johnny's Corner", only with more words. I will use this section title in the future on those occasions when I choose to include something on this subject in my blog. For those particularly slow to figure things out, I am the "Someone" referred to in the section title.



My Potentially Imaginary "Friends"
On my way to work on Thursday, November 5th, in the same approximate spot as where I believe I spotted Jennifer Aniston several weeks ago, which I describe in my October 25, 2009 blog as something to be seen in a very specified context, I believe I may have spotted her BFF Courteney Cox Arquette (wearing sunglasses). I therefore looked to see if this related to that night's "Office" episode (as the previously described specified context implied it might), and sure enough, though not indicated ahead of time in any blurb on that episode that I saw, the episode had Michael backing out of his relationship with Pam's mother once he learns she is 58 years old. This can clearly be seen as a twist on the premise of Courteney's TV show, "Couger Town". Additionally, on Friday, November 6th, I thought I may have again seen Matthew Perry, this time in a sports car with the top down. If so, this relates to something I wrote regarding the last time I saw Matthew Perry (again, my 10.25.09 blog), which I also relate to as something that occurred in a specified context. At that time I wrote of my "Curb Your Enthusiasm" suggestion in which Larry David keeps running into "Friends" cast members individually by chance, while planning the "Seinfeld" reunion show. I have Perry complaining to David that he is battling his girlfriend to tint the windows of his sports car. This contrasts with the possible subsequent Perry siting in which his sports car has the top down (I never looked too directly at the possible Matthew Perry person, though I'm quite sure that whoever it was, unlike the possible Courteney Cox Arquette person, he was without sunglasses).

Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby (Sung To The Tune Of "Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby")
On Thursday, November 5th I commented on a HuffingtonPost article (as JonathanDS2U), with the suggestion that Wellpoint Insurance be dealt with harshly for Senator Bayh initially threatening to join Lieberman's pro-fillibuster against healthcare stance. Bayh's wife is on Wellpoint's board, and I expressed my belief that Bayh only backed down because the obvious corruptness of the reason behind his taking this stance would ultimately cause it to backfire. On Friday, November 6th there was a big trailer in front of my apartment house, suggesting they were shooting a film. I asked someone there, and was informed they had been making a commercial for Hartford Insurance.

Bunch Of Knuckleheads
Back during the three-year period when I would every week email a sketch idea for SNL to people I once knew (Sean Daniel and Stuart Cornfeld), because every week little fragments (sometimes big fragments) from my idea would wind up on that week's show without fail, I perceived that the very first "Scared Straight" sketch originated from the idea I had sent in that week. I am referring to the SNL sketches where an inmate (Kenan Thompson) is brought in to a room where several delinquent teenagers are being detained after having been caught for some misdeed, so that he can lecture to them on the consequences of delinquent behavior, by painting a picture of prison life. I now present to you my Bowery Boys sketch comedy idea, emailed by me on May 5, 2008, several days before the first "Scared Straight" sketch occurred (I know the "Scared Straight" delinquent characters are technically not the Bowery Boys - however, if you recall, I did say fragments of my ideas):

The Bowery Boys are a few years older, and are they ever angry. They’re in court, suing and counter-suing each other for defamation of character owing to things said back when they were a gang. So Slip dared to call Zatch a knucklehead? So Zatch dared to imply Whitey had a screw loose? Zatch may have expressed it in pantomime, using sign language when Whitey wasn’t looking to indicate Whitey was crazy, “but yer honor, ain’t it the same ting?” “Oh yeah, you lousy, why I oughta-“ “You hear dat, yer honor, he’s doing it again!” “I did not, I said ‘you lousy’, but I didn’t finish the sentence. I coulda, but I am too refined.” “Yeah, too refined.” “Did you hear that, your honor? He was sarcastic about the idea of me being refined. I’ve never been so insulted.” In the end, the judge decrees that each owes money to the others, but when totalled up, all break even except Slip, who comes out three dollars ahead. He calls them all jerks in his delight, and so is made to give up the three dollars as a result.

The November 7, 2009 SNL included another installment of "Scared Straight", complete with Kenan Thompson being caught at reciting movie plots that he tries to pass off as actual things he's personally encountered. This tends to remind me of an experience I had wherein, once the movie "The Front" came out, I could no longer tell one of my (up until then) oft-repeated stories.

Way back when, my mother was in the Communist Party with Zero Mostel before he was famous (when he was Sammy Mostel). My mother described to me how she had signed up with the Communist Party under the phony last name of "Brown", as everyone used phony names, for the Communist Party tended to never let people quit. In the movie, "The Front", Zero Mostel, playing a character named Hecky Brown, protects at all costs the name of the woman he was once in the Communist Party with, and eventually kills himself when he is destroyed for this. Mostel was in fact blacklisted as a Communist, and once when it was arranged that my family could meet him after attending a performance of "Fiddler On The Roof", Mostel said, "Ah, Rose ___ (her maiden name). My mother's friend, Phil Gordis (a star of my Dostoyevsky video), also corroborated their all being in the Communist Party together, back in the days when such a choice actually reflected a certain idealistic take on the concept of communism with a small "c" rather than a disposition toward Stalinism (interestingly, Phil also described knowing the person who introduced Trotsky to the person who used this access to assassinate Trotsky). Josh Mostel, Zero's son, once denied to me that his father was a Communist, and said I should have my mother contact him if she insisted this was the case.

My big point here is that, once they made the movie, "The Front", it seemed that for me to repeat this story of mine was to appear to be reciting something connected to a movie plot. Similarly, the November 6th "Monk" included a story I've told from time to time that I don't believe I will any longer be able to (perhaps no great loss):

A long time ago, my family was good friends with the family of a Senior Editor of Consumer Reports Magazine, Bob Klein, who went on to become the Senior Editor of Money Magazine. While our two families were on a joint vacation together in Welfleet (Cape Cod), one day I went with the Kleins on some deep sea fishing outing. I got sea sick and had to go into a cabin on the boat, however, they left my line in the water, and when I returned to it there was a nice sized sea bass on the end. On shore, Bob Klein was about to sell the fish to someone on shore who made an offer (this was before he was made Senior Editor of Money). I had to be extremely firm in my refusal to do so, insisting that it was my private property even though I had gotten sea sick and was in a cabin on the boat at the moment the sea bass was making his decision to eat from my fishing hook.

An incident on the November 6th "Monk" has a kid absolutely refusing to sell a fish he caught, as he is proud of it, which strikes Monk as a somewhat silly position. It's unfortunate in a way, as I thought of my sea bass story as containing a special meaning regarding the subject of private property, especially as Bob went on to become Mr. Money (a societal bastion of the concept of private property). Yet I am pleased to give this story away, if I have indeed correctly surmised some of the cause and effect of the matter.