Follow This And That

Several things to whisper about, ranging from scarcely audible whispering to jumping up and down on the table whispering:

Smallville, Mediumville, Steinhoffville
Once again, I am pleased to say the Smallville season finale (5.14.10) has found a home for me, or, something for me, or, I've found something for them, or, we're in some strange no man's land with these little interconnections between what they're doing and what I've done, Medium being in there/out there somewhere as well. [Note- I posted my videoclip showing what I'm trying to say at YouTube (where I'm Zoomsteinhoff), however they removed it, so I've revisited this blog after its initial posting to include it here.]



Been There, Done That
I neglected to mention last time that the May 8th Saturday Night Live, in having another installment of their recurring sketch about the juvenile delinquents, was thereby doing something that originated with me. I ask you to do a search for "Bowery Boys" in the text of my earlier blogs posted at archive.org (I've posted "Jonathan D. Steinhoff's Sometimes Blog" Volumes 1, 2 and 3 there), should you be interested in what this statement is based on.

The season finale of SNL last night may or may not have been influenced by me, more specifically, my comedy sketch idea, "Beaver and Wally, The Flying Invisible Time Travelers" (posted at archive.org). In my idea, as we watch a single conversation, various changes to the present resulting from time travel continually manifest, generating aberrations to basic assumptions about the present, as the participants continue to speak in a state of total obliviousness. Same thing in last night's "Timecrowave" sketch with Alec Bladwin and Kristin Wigi.

See Where I'm Pointing, My Dear Watson
As I've described numerous times to numerous people, the first time I went to London, back in 1983, I hadn't been there one week before it's five to eleven at night and Paul McCartney and I are in the same underground station, opposite platforms (this is not my whole point, however). There was scarcely anyone else there, and sitting next me was someone dressed like Sherlock Holmes. It was the Baker Street station, Baker Street being something commonly associated with Holmes (as is Basil Rathbone, though Rathbone could also be associated as the name of the evil corporation in McCartney's "Give My Regards To Broad Street", which was released a certain number of months later). That is not my whole point either. So I turned to the Sherlock Holmes looking guy and said, "Isn't that Paul McCartney?" He needed more information. "Where?" he asked. So pretending my pointing finger was a searchlight beam, I moved my pointing finger along the near-empty opposite platform, then suddenly came to a stop on Paul McCartney. I paused a moment, then stated, "There." "Oh yes," he said, or something to that effect. It was May 13th, 1983, and I was already secretly super-important in relation to McCartney, as I am now, and would be invited in several days to a dinner party by an old friend of an old family friend, who lived next to McCartney during the '70s - so it was small surprise. This also is not my whole point. Several weeks ago, on the very same day that a news item was circulating that Steve Carell would be leaving "The Office", I somehow happened to drive by Steve Carell, who smiled at me. "The Office" people have done just this sort of thing to me before, possibly put up to it by Stuart Cornfeld (do another search) - so it was small surprise. And then, on the May 13th, 2010 episode of "The Office" (the 27th anniversary of that other stuff), this happened:



That is my point: from what I can tell, person or persons involved with "The Office" heard of my 1983 experience, including the date it happened, and did something about it. Even Sherlock Holmes himself would have been unable to imagine how something such as this could have come about. I am still arguing with myself over what might have happened.

And while this does not prove the point made in those news items about Steve Carell leaving "The Office" (let's wait and see), I, on the other hand, do plan to leave the office where I work, i.e., I am currently looking for a new job. The one where Spielberg and McCartney don't pay me anything and meanwhile terrorists leave stuff on my doorstep because of my "secret" super-importance, yet no one investigates, and people "above" me at work act REAL above me.... isn't working.