Things I Will Never Say Out Loud

Before the "Things I Will Never Say Out Loud" portion of this blog, I first want to express my exhilaration at Barack Obama's election. This real-life suspense can really deplete one's energy, especially when one shudders at what might have happened if McCain hadn't taken a dive by choosing Palin. At last the push for attitudinal stupidity that's been gradually insinuating itself into everything everywhere has been countered, through the election of someone who went to Harvard, the hardest school to get into in the country. That Obama graduated first in his class at Harvard and then made President of the U.S. has to stand as a beacon for those perpetually browbeaten by the stupid, and their arrogant accusations of over-thinking whenever they see themselves in a situation with someone to whom they feel inferior.

In a couple of hours Ben Stiller is scheduled to appear as a guest on the Letterman show. As Stiller runs “Red Hour Films” with Stuart Cornfeld (see my blog of 8/13/08), I occasionally find such Stiller appearances to contain inside references for my benefit. Following my assessment of this Stiller appearance, I may or may not have something to bring to this blog.

One thing definitely upcoming for my next blog: I will put together a correlation of my comedy sketch idea, “The Weight” (see my previous blog), about CNN’s then upcoming election night coverage, with CNN’s actual election night coverage. In both instances, CNN contrived the gimmick of being on a spacecraft while covering the election results. In my comedy sketch, the pundits float weightlessly in a spacecraft while discussing the results. In the actual CNN coverage, they use an effect to “beam up” holograms of people reporting on the election, which is referred to as being out of the TV show, “Star Trek” (from whence comes the expression, “beam me up, Scotty”). It can be proven that my sketch “The Weight” was posted on archive.org on 10/26/08, clearly prior to CNN’s actual unveiling of this election night surprise gimmick.

In the meantime I give you this, "Things I Will Never Say Out Loud", which might seem more meaningful/less absurd to those who have more closely and intelligently followed the weight that has continually been attached to my actions throughout most of my life:

1. Several days prior to McCain’s May appearance on The Daily Show, I sent out a comedy sketch idea to someone who always circulates my ideas to SNL and The Daily Show. My idea was about how The Bowery Boys, now grown up, were all suing each other for defamation of character because when they were young they used to speak to and about each other in a derisive, disrespectful manner. At the end of my sketch, Slip Mahoney comes out a few dollars ahead of the others after each are made to pay some amount to each of the others. This causes Slip to call them all “JERKS”, and for using this word “JERKS” he is made to pay out the few dollars he had gained. Several days later on The Daily Show, a program to which my ideas are always circulated and where they often end up, McCain told Stewart that now he had to talk to him nice and with respect, as he had become the Republican’s assumed presidential nominee since his last appearance on the show. Later during that same Daily Show appearance McCain said that he suspected the Secret Service’s code word for him was “JERK”.

2. Several days before McCain brought up the whole “Joe The Plumber” thing (the third presidential debate, October), I sent an email to Ringo Starr, “Shining Time Ringo”, relating to my having contributed to his backdrop on “Shining Time Station”, a show about “Thomas The Tank Engine”. Owing to my having long been a major influence on Ringo, the context of my suddenly sending this email was automatically an important one.

3. Several weeks prior to the second presidential debate, which was hosted by Tom Brokaw in October, I wrote a comedy sketch idea, “Peek-a-Boo, ICU”, referred to in my 9/28/08 blog, which was about the then-upcoming second presidential debate, using Brokaw as a character in the sketch idea (as it was known he would be moderating). My comedy sketch derives humor primarily from McCain doing what he can to obstruct a view of himself. In the actual debate, at the very end, Brokaw gets annoyed at McCain for visually obstructing his view. Those seeking to derive humor from the actual debate made repeated references to this actual view obstruction on McCain’s part.

4. On August 15th I sent an email regarding a video I was working on, wherein I referred to how it was influenced by British comedy legend Michael PALIN and several others with whom Palin used to work. As my video was about a wolf man and this email was sent to the producer of an upcoming movie about a wolf man (the producer being someone I have consistently been an influence on, a Spielberg and Geffen friend who was the first person who told me about the college I attended, CalArts), the email had a built-in special significance. As my influence on this producer has led to my being a significant influence on Spielberg, this email may have been seen as containing a very, very special significance. On August 24th I posted my wolf man video. On August 29th McCain announced Sarah PALIN as his VP pick. Up until McCain’s thrusting of Sarah Palin into the spotlight, many would have automatically associated the name PALIN with only one person, Michael Palin. To put it another way, a contestant on a game show, if asked for a first name to put with the name “Palin”, would have automatically answered, “Michael”, that is, up until August 29th, after which the answer would have become “Sarah”.