Oliver Hardy Laughter

Just as someone might, with relatively little difficulty, begin with nuclear energy, yet one day find himself to be in possession of a nuclear weapon, so Saturday Night Live has, by starting with the "plank of wood, a 2x4" originated by me (previous blog, 10.17.10) while discussing SNL's (very) timely inside-references to Steinhoff material, somehow found a way to beat my plowshare (well, plank) into a 2x8 (disclaimer- these dimensions are based on a visual approximation):



I believe it clearly contains stuff that can easily be interpreted as a continuation of what started in my previous (10.17.10) blog as an Ahmadinejad "discussion" with SNL. How far that reaches into this videoclip has yet to be resolved, though I see where this could all easily culminate in a three-picture deal, or another sketch, only this time all of the characters get to be sitting down on nice soft chairs.

Two Pair Showing

A Show Of Hands
Little tiny inside-references to me/my material have been detectable here and there over the past several weeks. Most are of that nature where one would already have to be familiar with a number of facts before one could appreciate the significance of such observations, otherwise, I would seem to be making too much out of something. What a bother when recognition of the significant context requires special effort.

The Saturday Night Live one I am bothering with reveals to me, as they have before, that they see my blogs. I bothered with this inside-reference because, due to the "history" preceding it, I read it as being in the sphere of Saturday Night Live sorta kinda asking me to inject a remark or something about the Iranian President. Ahmadinejad is part of what they are inside-referencing, thus, my reaction might be expected to include such a remark. Furthermore, I see where I should believe SNL might very possibly scrutinize my reaction to their inside-reference.

There are a few things I should mention about the context of this image. It is preceded by my having mentioned in and demonstrated through numerous blogs, that "Saturday Night Live" has a long history of including things "hot off the Steinhoff press". Usually, the week in which such pieces of my ideas appear are the very same week that I specifically submitted them to SNL, through intermediaries. I do not say such ideas could never have existed prior to my incorporating them into my work. I emphasize the context created by the timing and consistency of their making such usage.

In this case, they not only had their image tie in with something in my 9/26/10 blog. What they chose to reference simultaneously intertwines with the video I have just completed - "Hatch", posted 10/15/10 at YouTube and Archive.Org. That I was working on this video was announced a few months ago in a blog. That announcement was immediately followed by an inside-reference on Colbert, as I described in a blog. "Hatch" also influenced the second episode of the new William Shatner sitcom (I am not new to influencing William Shatner, or influencing almost anyone you can think of, for that matter). When I first wrote the comedy idea several years ago (as "Down The Hatch"), SNL also immediately included an inside-reference.

So what, if anything, do I want to say about Ahmadinejad this time around. Well, I saw him on Charlie Rose recently, and here's what comes to mind. When I was working on the movie, "Gizmo" back in 1974, I came across this old Fox Movietone news footage (from the early '30s, I believe). It showed this young man sitting on the end of a plank of wood, a 2 x 4. The cameraman was on the other end. The plank of wood was on an upper floor of a very tall New York City skyscraper, hanging over the sidewalk. So the man sitting on the plank of wood is looking at the camera, laughing nervously. Why would a person put himself in that position? His nervous laughter was our only handle on his state of mind in doing this. That guy reminds me of Ahmadinejad, who has deliberately chosen to make his world far more precarious than any sane person would. But he looks at the camera with nervous laughter, soliciting the warmth of the cameraman. Asking to be seen as a man free of conventional fear. Impressing us with his bravado. It is a primitive person's route to winning points with people. And yes, you will find people in the crowd who will totally overlook your insanity.

The Two Of Us Are Really One
As I've mentioned a few times, it was I who suggested the Colbert and Stewart rallies be two rallies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JonathanDS/restoring-truthiness-colbert-rally-beck_n_704578_59349947.html

The day after I posted this Comment, Stewart drove by me, which I reported in a blog article the day following that.

Now they are making one rally out of it, so I suppose I ought to react. Okay, here it is: Fine with me!

Hatch

My new (10/15/10) video, "Hatch", just posted at Archive.Org (http://www.archive.org/details/Hatch) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptDmQCsk3gk), experienced a proper amount of incubating immediately prior to its release.

How Does This Not Disappear

Were you to do a search through my various blogs for "Bruce Willis" (you might go to where they're collected in volumes 1-4 at Archive.Org to simplify the task), you would find this name showing up here and there, now and then. You could then go back to the actual blog articles posted at this site that you had looked up, so that you could actually see the videoclips involved. You'd have so much fun! You'll even find references to Willis appearances on Letterman!

In my past three blogs I've made mention of a trail of bread crumbs that has come to involve, among other things, the Bruce Willis movie, "The Jackal," as well as my video (posted at Archive.Org in 2008), "Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule." So, part of my thinking while watching Willis on Letterman Monday night was to see if there would be anything from Bruce Willis in this regard. Which has often been part of the "pattern"....

Outwardly, the big thing about Willis' Letterman appearance Monday was his hamburger hairpiece (which had been important enough for Bruce Willis and Jon Stewart to reflect on the following night during Bruce Willis' appearance on "The Daily Show"):


Okay - but that was all a trick, carefully designed to get you to train your eyes on that part of Bruce Willis. See, so that your eyes would already be there when this happened later on during that same Willis appearance on Letterman:


Because, as is already known to those who have seen my above-referenced, "Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule," I play Merlin in that video:


By the way, lest there seem a trail of bread crumbs amidst all this pointing towards this idea, the answer is no, I am not secretly Merlin the Magician in real life. But thank you just the same for thinking you see a trail of bread crumbs pointing in that direction.

Gotta Be A Superman

It's "Smallville" time again - the Superman show, for those not up on things. And if you've been following my blogs over the years, you'll know how that often means it's also time once again for me to describe how I have been incorporated into things over there - how this is something I attribute, in part at least, to the fact that Sean Daniel's "Mummy 3" was written by the "Smallville" writer/producers. Yes, I am there once again, if you know how to put a few things together, and feel like bearing with me until it all makes sense. At the VERY least, don't you have to wonder how it is that I so often have something to give pause, and from the exact same place as where I so often find something to give pause? Or.... perhaps you profess to believe it's all pulled straight out of the air?

Check This
In the final paragraph of my immediately preceding blog (Sept. 28th, "Politics for Dummies"), I observed how, for some reason I didn't particularly get, there were several shows that had recently incorporated references to Sean Daniel movies ("Animal House" and "The Jackal"). These were objective observations anyone might have made, anyone familiar with certain public knowledge:

1. The Bishop scene in "Animal House" (John Belushi smashes Stephen Bishop's guitar as he sits playing on a staircase) showed up via a scene on Leno featuring Sheryl Crow and Ed Helms (which I was bound to watch, as I had shortly before that mentioned in my blogs some Sheryl Crow stuff in relation to me).
2. On Saturday Night Live's season premiere almost a week ago, a reference to the Jack Black scene in Sean Daniel's "The Jackal" (in their takeoff on the recent Stallone movie).

It had crossed my mind, regarding the Sean Daniel connection in the above-referenced Sheryl Crow bit, that, as the word "Bishop" had come up there (Stephen Bishop being in the "Animal House" scene), and then "Smallville" shortly thereafter (last week) made inside-reference to my "Bishop And Pawn Forfeit Rule" (see my Sept. 26th blog), there could be a connection in that for my benefit, but there wasn't enough for me to go on until tonight's "Smallville".

Before you have enough to go on, I would have to ask that you look at my August 13, 2008 blog, "A Piece of the Mask" (also at Archive.Org as part of Volume 1 of my collected blog articles, therefore a matter of record that I couldn't have written it after the date Volume 1 was published). In Item 2 of that blog article, I note special inside-reference significance to someone, in the role of rescuer, standing over a person who had just been knocked to the ground. Specifically, the blog article describes this action with regard to scenes involving Jack Black, including reference to the movie, "Tenancious D And The Pick Of DESTINY".

And so, I now give you this videoclip of moments from tonight's "Smallville," which include

• Someone, in the role of rescuer, standing over someone who had just been knocked to the ground
  

• A situation that brings the movie "The Jackal" to mind

• A discussion of Destiny

Also of interest is that this same DESTINY discussion scene in "Smallville" ends with the introduction of the word "superman" to "Smallville" (I end the above videoclip right before Lois Lane provides the translation for the German version of this word). Whatever you wish to attach to the appearance of "superman" here.