Let's Be More Tolerant Of Lactose

Before I get to the following videoclip regarding references to me/my material on the May 17th season finale of "The Simpsons", a few things should be known. Why is it sanitized of Simpsons images? I ask you to go back to my 11/30/08 blog, "Give My Regards To Silence", where I describe circumstances that caused me to pull Simpsons images from YouTube. In reading that blog, I also ask that you note my mentioning how "The Simpsons" particularly likes to include things regarding the 1974 CalArts student film, "Limbo", which I worked on. I would also wish to add that this is the fourth Simpsons in a row this season referencing "Limbo" to enough of a degree for me to make a videoclip - videoclips I have not posted due to reasons described in the above-referenced (and linked) 11/30/08 blog. And finally, the 1990, 1992 video referred to in the videoclip, "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'", features my father, Reynold Steinhoff, who passed away in 2000, delivering a line about cigarettes using the identical words and, more importantly, intonation, as the Lisa Simpson character delivering a line about milk:




If there is anyone out there asking why I did not include a correlation between Homer hurling into a saxophone on that episode with the saxophone image in my Dostoyevsky video, my carefully considered response is: yeah, they would have liked that.

In the past I have been inclined to believe that Simpsons references to various things Steinhoff (mostly "Limbo") most likely resulted from Mark Kirkland (Simpsons director) living down the hall from me at CalArts during the 70s, knowing the same people as me. I'm now theorizing that Hank Azaria, who does the voices of numerous Simpsons characters, could be behind it: He frequently works with Ben Stiller (see Stiller connection in my previous blog of 5/22/09); and his appearance on last night's Kimmel show included an inside-reference for my benefit to something that occurred when his ex-wife played someone giving birth on "Mad About You". That's enough for me to put him on my secret list, "Potential Fans Potentially Willing To Kill For Me".