Just As Long As They Spell Your Nickname Right

Was I in any way "included" in the January 22nd Conan O'Brien (aka "Coco") farewell to "The Tonight Show"? Not as much (or at least, not in the same way) as when Craig Kilborn (who may or may not have driven by me January 22, 2010) and Johnny Carson included me in their farewells to their late night television shows (see my May 30, 2009 blog, which can also be found posted with a solid timestamp in November 2009 at Archive.Org in the first volume of the blogs I've timestamp posted there), and not in a manner I would ever have chosen.... but yes, I was "included".

1. An Eric Clapton phone commercial, excerpted here with Eric Clapton saying "Buddy", debuted January 20, 2010 (according to a published article), just two days before Conan's finale (and which aired on Conan each night since its debut):




In the context of the commercial, "Buddy" is meant to refer to Buddy Guy. However, I believe it was worked out that he would simultaneously be saying "Buddy" in a different context altogether. I also believe walking and chewing gum are things Eric Clapton is capable of doing simultaneously. The man ain't stupid, and neither are you.

2. Excerpts from my April 18, 2009 and July 3, 2009 blogs (which also contain solid timestamps from having also been posted in November 2009 at Archive.Org):

April 18, 2009
"....It was a conversation I had with this girl that resulted in Tom Hanks' situation comedy, 'Bosom Buddies'. Furthermore, an Eric Clapton inside album cover once made another such inside reference (that suggest that girl in relation to myself)...."

July 3, 2009
"....I should add that the aforementioned personal conversation that found its way into 'Baker Street' was in relation to the girl with whom I had the conversation that resulted in Tom Hanks’ sitcom. She went through a period when everyone was this or that kind of buddy: her laundry buddy, her pool buddy, her clothes buddy – she once called me her Sudafed Buddy, because I once gave her some Sudafed sinus tablets. Hence, 'Bosom Buddies'....."

3. Tom Hanks was the guest on the final Conan O'Brien "Tonight Show," which aired yesterday. The actual ending of the show (last moment) had Conan playing lead on electric guitar.

4. I also refer to Eric Clapton (aka "Slow Hand") in my January 17, 2010 blog, which does not yet have a solid Archive.Org timestamp.

5. Pee Wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens, aka Paul Reubenfeld), who I also encountered at CalArts during the '70s, back when I "knew" the "referenced" girl (aka Sudafed Buddy), appeared on the January 21, 2010 Conan show (aka Conan's second-to-last "Tonight Show"), where Pee also made an inside-reference to something that happened regarding myself in relation to this woman, as well as an inside-reference to my 1978 video, "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly." I also believe that it is Peter Beckman (CalArts alum, narrator's voice in my 1978 "Steinhoff's Monster") whose voice we hear as the announcer in the current TV commercials for Pee Wee's show at Nokia. (I emphasize the word "show" here for the obvious reason, obvious at least to those who have seen those commercials, that "show" is the "secret" word.)

I shall now place a big, black cork in it all. That is.... until the next exciting thing happens to me!